tripu @tripu@social.cleverlibre.org

A moment after your child is born, doctors offer you a **one-time pill** for your newborn that would greatly increase the probability that they join the **social and economic elite** (high-rank politician, big company executive, top sportsperson, very rich person, popular intellectual, etc). Only side effect: the pill would also greatly increase the probability that they end up at the **bottom of the social ladder** (criminal, incarcerated, homeless, addicted, suicidal, murdered, etc). Assume the pill is known to be safe and effective.

_Would you give that pill to your child?_

The World Health Organisation groups all causes of death into three large categories.

These were the [global ratios men/women in the last year available (2019)](https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/themes/mortality-and-global-health-estimates/ghe-leading-causes-of-death) for those categories.

Happy #InternationalWomensDay!

#WHO #IWD #gender #men

First it was #LouisePerry's [case against the sexual revolution](https://www.louisemperry.co.uk/).

Then came #MaryHarrington's [reactionary feminism](https://swiftpress.com/book/feminism-against-progress/).

TIL about #ChristineEmba [rethinking sex](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/622579/rethinking-sex-by-christine-emba/).

What's going on?

#feminism #conservatism

I pick up the #kids from school, take them to the park where I play with them and give them their afternoon snack, take them home, keep them busy for a while, bathe them in turns, prepare and give them dinner, clear up the kitchen a bit, brush their teeth, prepare a baby bottle, read them a story in bed and get them to sleep. And at the time of writing these lines they are still alive. (My wife has a long work day plus some appointments today — other times it's the other way around, of course.)

After all that I feel superhuman.

I'm not asking for a medal or anything: this is my responsibility, and I chose this life.

But it makes me realise that in spite of all my complaints about modern #feminism (and boy do I have some complaints about modern feminism) and my tireless defence of men and fathers, it's clear that

#MUMS ARE FUCKING AWESOME, AND THEY HAVE BEEN AWESOME FOR MILLENNIA.

Much respect.

> _«El gran problema es la consideración del varón como un sexo (o género) moralmente inferior. Los horrores causados por el #hombre, como la guerra o los crímenes, se asocian a la masculinidad, mientras que sus logros literarios, científicos o artísticos se explican por un sistema de opresión que no permitía a la #mujer alcanzar dichos hitos. Es decir, **consideramos que la mujer es tan capaz como el hombre en todo, excepto en la maldad**. La conclusión inevitable de ese discurso es que es necesario acabar con lo que convierte al hombre en hombre: la #masculinidad.»_

— Daniel Jiménez

https://www.elmundo.es/papel/historias/2023/03/04/64021b9421efa0041a8b45d5.html

#gender #men

[You are not an anti-capitalist](https://blog.tripu.info/anti-capitalism/)

I don't like #pets, and I don't understand the concept of keeping pets in urban environments.

Very few species are adapted to live well in an apartment, right? Some cat breeds, rodents, what else?

It always seemed cruel to me.

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https://abbrevia.me/

Not bad. (Outdated, but I haven't really used the birdsite in the last three years or so.)

Exhibit #8,253:

https://twitter.com/xlr8harder/status/1630516848381894658