"Black men are lazy. Shiftless. Dangerous. They're little more than animals, unable to control their bestial lusts. Every one of them wants to rape white women. We'd be better off without them."

Disgusting, right? Nothing anyone could say publicly in this day and age, unless they were in the White House. It's something you might hear in the 1920s or '30s, but certainly not today.

Now take out two key words:

"Men are lazy. Shiftless. Dangerous. They're little more than animals, unable to control their bestial lusts. Every one of them wants to rape women. We'd be better off without them."

Suddenly it's something anyone could say in a magazine, newspaper, TV, or on social media. A little extreme, perhaps, but perfectly righteous.

And all I did was take out "black" and "white".

So why is it okay to say about men in general what you CAN'T (and shouldn't) say about a particular subgroup of men?

People rarely realize that they're being bigoted. When it's common opinion, it just seems like common sense. It's not until times change that people realize what they did and (some) become ashamed of it.

I believe that in time, it will be recognized that men have become an acceptable target for hate that those same people would NEVER think of directing against a racial group, for example.

Unfortunately most so-called "men's rights" groups are fronts for white supremacy, MAGA, and fascism. But that doesn't mean that men aren't actually discriminated against in some real ways.

The presence of a Y chromosome doesn't make a human being a monster. The lack thereof doesn't make someone an angel. Women can be abusive just like men. •We're all human•.

I've been abused by women, badly. Date-raped by a woman. Molested by women. Stalked by women. But I've never done anything TO a woman. Nonetheless I'm constantly called a potential rapist, molester, deadbeat dad (although I had to raise my son solo when his mother abandoned him)...it gets to me. It gets to me really badly.

I've only ever tried to treat everyone as a human being worthy of respect until they proved themselves otherwise. And yet when I l say women can have the same flaws as some men, I'm immediately mocked, sneered at, and hit with the "Not all men" trope - as if that proved something somehow. It's bullying coupled with utter self-righteousness. And I just can't take it any more.

But my only option is to block those who come at me with that attitude, no matter how much I might otherwise like what they write. Because I WON'T join one of those men's rights groups. Still, I'm angry. And I won't tolerate prejudice, no matter how righteous those bigots think they are.

Either we're all human, or nobody is.

#gender #WomenAndMen #Women #Men #bigotry #discrimination

I have a problem.

My mother is 91. She has dementia and she's stubborn as hell. I'm her health proxy.

Her latest tests indicate that she's not taking at least one important medication often enough. I set up a timed pill box to release her pills every morning; it's kept at her neighbor's place, and she brings it over to my mother every morning.

But Mom is a sneaky one. She'll maybe take a pill or two, and then put the rest of them aside and say she'll take them later. Sometimes we find a loose pill or two on the carpet or fallen inside an armchair.

The doctor also ordered her to give up drinking, but there is a wine shop 3 minutes from her door and she has been getting one or two bottles of wine a week. Despite the fact that Mom promised her doctor that she wouldn't drink any more.

Her memory is shot, but she's also capitalizing on that, I sometimes suspect. We need to either get someone to make sure she takes her pills everyday, or she's going to have to move to assisted living.

I live more than an hour away and I work full time. My brother and sister are closer, but they both have very important jobs and are very busy.

My brother thinks we can talk to her and tell her that she needs to take her pills, but I'm not buying it. I spend more time with her then either of them, and I just don't see her cooperating.

So now the question is, are there home health aids that can dispense pills? Or rather, who could make sure she takes her pills? I'm being told that there aren't, but that seems insane.

Anyway, is anyone else going through something like this? Any suggestions to share? Thanks!

#senility #dementia #ElderlyParent #Advice

So now a "ceasefire" includes bombing. Just like the Gaza ceasefire.

The world will never be sane until we erase the Epstein Class and ALL of their servants from the face of the Earth.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/26/us-conducts-self-defense-strikes-in-iran-as-trump-seeks-peace-deal.html

#Politics #IranWar #FreePalastine #Trump

YAY! IT EXPLODED!

...amazing how hard it was to find a mainstream news story that didn't try to hide that fact, though. I wonder why? 🤔

https://www.theguardian.com/science/video/2026/may/23/spacex-rocket-bursts-into-flames-during-indian-ocean-landing-video

@nprofile1q... #Space #SpaceX