And US society reinforces that behavior by shaming men for being vulnerable or showing weakness and teaching others that a crying or otherwise emotionally vulnerable man is something deserving of shame and contempt.

A great example is online advice articles about handling relationship issues: so much advises that stoicism is the only option, otherwise your girlfriend/wife will lose their respect and attraction for you.

I had an ex-girlfriend mock me for crying during our breakup and know many men who have encountered similar shaming treatment from other men and women. It's brutal.

This brings back a memory of earlier depravity.

As a teen, I worked at a local sub sandwich joint. It wasn't uncommon to get requests for mayonnaise and these sandwiches got a bit on the top bun. Requests for extra mayo got a smear on the top and bottom buns. A rare few customers insisted on extra extra extra mayonnaise. Ludicrous volumes of mayo. I always asked them if they were sure, informing them it was going to be a lot, probably too much. Informed consent and all. I made something special for these misguided souls: the mayo trough.

They'd get the standard extra mayo smear on the bottom bun, but the top bun was where the magic happened. I'd press a concavity into the inside of the bun, completely fill it in with mayonnaise (a foot long sandwich took about 1/3 cup), then gently nestle it atop the fillings. When they'd bite into their sandwich, they were rewarded for their foolishness by it spurting mayonnaise and other condiments everywhere, like a culinary Peter North unloading into a roast beef sandwich.

We didn't get a lot of repeat requests.

"Land of the free"

Is a complete lack of self awareness heritable? Are they going to breed a race of super clueless whities with bad eyesight?

Haha, I can tell you never cleaned retail bathrooms... *cries*

But if you don't take the quote out of context, it doesn't support the narrative they're imagining up!

OMFG I haven't laughed this hard at an Internet comment in years.

She's 31?! Goddamn, it looks like being evil really takes it out of you.

But how else will they get a bigger house? Nicer, larger yacht? More private jets?

Like, I kinda understand the "more more more!" mentality. As my income has gone up over the years, there's always something more my monkey brain tells me I should want. A nicer, more comfortable car. A new video card. Two angry ponies. You know how it is. I tell it to shut up because I have more than enough already.

I'm not a sociopath, though, so at no point has my monkey brain told me to enslave others so I can have nicer stuff.

I came here to make exactly the same point. Fuck the United States judicial system.

I recently had a coworker who was unable to understand how to use Google or other search engines. She may have been the stupidest person I've ever met and was the living embodiment of the fact that one can be highly educated yet still incredibly stupid.

When your response requires you to quote information out of context and to fill in information you don't have with guesses (COVID and immunocompromisation), you're just making things up to suit your belief. Your premise is that other people are just making things up to suit their beliefs. I'll just stop there.