So I was watching a Reddit AITA^[1] video when I came across an entry where a man aske if he was TA because when a woman who was walking ahead of him suddenly turned around and screeched at him to stop “following” her, he told her to fuck right off.

Bad enough. But what really pissed me off was that same dude, presumably after getting yelled at by a lot of women, later added, “Oh, geez, I guess I was insensitive and lacked empathy because I had no idea what women go through and next time I will be sure to do everything I can to keep from making a woman feel unsafe!”.

And that pissed me off so bad that this came pouring out :

Story 3 : FUCK. THIS. NOISE. Women today are oppressed by fear. The media makes them view every man as a threat and that is horrible and cruel. Sure, that random guy MIGHT be a rapist – BUT HE PROBABLY ISN’T. Violent crime against strangers is extremely rare. All crime is rare, for that matter. Realistically, there are so many things more likely to harm you than some random dude. Car accidents. Cancer. A falling piano. And yet women all over the world are terrified in situations where they are perfectly safe. As long as I draw breath, I will fight this culture of fear. Ladies, don’t believe the hype. Odds are, you are just fine. Life is not a horror movie. And gentlemen, push back on this. OP Was perfectly justified at being treated like a psycho killer rapist merely because he has a penis. It is completely unjustified and sexist AF. You don’t have to own the crimes of a very tiny number of men merely because you possess a Y chromosome. Women expecting men to bend over backwards and forwards again to make women feel safe just perpetuates the idea that women are weak and helpless and need men to protect them. It is never acceptable to view someone as a threat base on race, religion, ethnic origin, political affiliation, OR GENDER. What if that women had felt unsafe because OP was black? Or Muslim? Or ugly? Everyone would agree that was wrong. So why should gender be any different? Fight the fear, ladies. Recognize that you are safe. The shadows are not full of rapists and 99.9999999999 percent of men are perfectly harmless as you pass them on the street. Escape the sexist box media fear traps you in. Odds are you are just fine.

my righteous anger on youtube

As you can see, it’s a tad schizophrenic. I oscillate between speaking out against misandrist hate and mistrust of men and attacking the underlying problem of women being filled with unwarranted fear by the media and a culture of fear.

They are both valid, but ideally I would have argue them separately.

But I am seriously pissed off at being considered a monster for the crime of having testicles. It is the definition of sexist and we men need to start pushing back on the issue, and keep pushing back till we get equality.

So yeah, the dude was totally justified in telling her to fuck right off. He did absolutely nothing wrong and she went all psycho Karen on his ass for no reason.

If it is wrong for a Karen to call the cops on someone for being black, and it’s wrong for some panicky bigots to call the FBI on their neighbors for being Muslim, it’s wrong for a woman to accuse someone of “following” her for being male.

More after the break.

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Happy Smoke Season!

Don’t you just love this time of year?

That special, magical season where the air is filled with the enchanting aroma of woodsmoke (aka the smell of millions of trees dying) and breathing outdoors produces a burning sensation in your lungs that you just know is giving you lung cancer (hey, why should smokers have all the fun?), and the sun is a festively malevolent glowering red ball in the sky judging us all harshly for this completely avoidable apocalypse?

Why, it brings tears to my eyes and puts a lump in my throat just thinking about it.

Then I cough up the lump. What is that, creosote?

And just think of all the fun we will have in future Smoke Seasons! Because this is the new normal, folks. Get used to this, because Smoke Season is a permanent part of the year now, and will probably only get worse over time!

Maybe one of these years. the sun will be blotted out entirely!

Ah well, serves it right for nourishing the plants that went into the ground and became the oil and coal that fueled this whole mess!

And just think of how much fun it will be to father the kids around the ol’ air filtration machine and tell them the heartwarming story of the very first Smoke Season and how once there was a time when people could breathe outdoors and nobody wore filtration masks all day and there were long stretches with no extreme weather at all!

They won’t really believe you, and you’ll be thankful, because then they won’t ask you why you didn’t do anything to stop it from happening!

Who broke the world? Well after all, it was you and me.

“But what can one person do?” said five billion people as one.

Guess it’s never too early to get out excuses ready?

“But um… corporations and rich people…. or something?” is not going to cut it.

And just think of all the fun new seasons we’ll be adding to the calendar!

There’s sure to be Thunder Hell Season, with thunderstorms so severe that between the fist of god level thunder, the lightning strong enough to melt granite, and the rain so hard it washes away a million years of topsoil overnight, nothing but bare bedrock will remain and all that lives will perish!

And don’t forget Fire Tornado Season, where what the tornados don’t destroy is burned to mere traces of carbon by the continuous rain of flaming debris!

Oh, and don’t forget Christmas! It will come at the beginning of Icy Demon Season, where the temperature rapidly drops to below the freezing point of people and we all have to huddle together around our burning dung piles in order to keep our frostburned flesh marginally alive till spring!

Oh, and Spring will bring such wonderful things. New flowers, baby animals, and plagues! Yes, with all of us malnourished and barely alive, the pathogens will thrive and there will be so many new and exciting things to die from!

Yes, it’s a wonderful, magical time to be alive, and I can’t wait to see what fresh hell Nature visits upon us next!

Better start working on that underground civilization!

Hey Mole People,,,, can we crash with you for a while?

Happy Hellscape, everyone!

I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.

(P.S., sorry for all that, but I had a lot of bitterness to vent.)