Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 1)

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/women-you-are-great.1125621/#post-136614360

Thank you! 🥰

No one was talking about you, tyrant

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/things-said-in-movies-that-make-no-goddamn-sense.1123068/page-7#post-136608639

Sorry to bring up Jurassic Park but this is something I forgot to bring up in my other post, the films mention of "The Big One"

The film's prologue and Muldoon's speech sets her up like the book as the big pack leader of the group, the big villain... except then when we actually meet the Raptors, the film never specifies which of the three is the big one; not helped that all three use the same model, both practical and CGI so none are bigger the each other.

We only know which is the Big One, Kim and Randy via the script and who played the puppets (The Big One is the one who eats Arnold, chases Ellie and first killed by the T. rex, Randy is the one who gets stuck in the Freezer and Kim is the one who chases the kid, Grant and Ellie and the last to survive).

Always found that a bit odd.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/id-hate-to-be-a-young-man-growing-up-today-sports-betting-the-manosphere.1125729/#post-136614867

I disagree with the premise that teens are "stupid" and I think that is kind of an issue in itself. They aren't stupid, or at least no any more or less stupid then the adults around them, just developing and arguably more naïve and arrogant because their younger (I say arguably because some teens are flat out smarter then some adults I know); it's one of the reason's why I'm a strong advocate for media made for kids and teen should talk down and respect their audience intelligence. I feel like dismissing their concerns as just "stupidity", "being teens", "boys being boys", especially when we're dealing with issues like depression, loneliness, social isolation, inadequacy with not being "man enough" due to forced societal standards leads to young men trying to find someone willing to listen or understand, which makes them targets to grifters and chuds, exploiting their issues while feeding them poison of blaming women etc. I feel like this is a continued cycle because we keep falling into this trap of refusing to listen to teens and kids and just assume we know better rather then actually help. It's depressing to watch my Generation (Gen Y) fall into the trap with our treatment of Gen Z (you can fully see this behaviour on ERA), acting no better then the generations that blamed and refused to listen to us.

There is one thing I would like to discuss when it comes to role models. I fully agree there needs to be more positive role models for young men outside of the rightwing chud sphere (from streamers and personalities as mentioned in the OP and traditional movie action hero types). It's why I love a quote from Peter Cullen about the advice his brother gave when auditioning for Optimus Prime because it's the type of role model people do need (both in Hollywood and honestly it fully applies to modern day streamers and influencers):

"Peter, if you're going to be a hero, be a real hero. Don't be one of those Hollywood hero type with all the BS, with all the yelling and screaming and trying to be tough. Just be strong and real. Tell the truth. Be strong enough to be gentle."

However there is something I've noticed that I feel is bad, when boy and men do have role models, but they are women instead of men they'll get mocked, dismissed or treated that this is a bad thing, both by chuds and leftist men. To be blunt, I don't think their is anything wrong with boys having strong women role models and I think that would 100% be treated as okay; I fully believe in removing shitty artificial binaries, if a boy wants to play with dolls, where pink, wear a skirt, enjoy cooking etc, let them, encourage them. There is also the fact that that may mean their not a boy at all, before I realized I was trans, I had frustration because my role models were women, I was uncomfortable being in boys lockers, was continuously mocked and bullied physically and verbally for loving girly "things" like Pokémon, animals, cooking (and stuff like Halo bizarrely enough). If I had been able to explore myself back then, I would have likely discovered and realized I was a woman much sooner, been much happier and may have avoid my issues with depression.

As for the gambling aspect of the discussion, while I realize the focus is on sport gambling, I fully argue this shit also applies to video games using those RNG tactics as well, especially social and competitive games and one of the reasons why shit like heavy use of FOMO, microtransactions and especially paid RNG needs to be regulated like gambling.

I have mixed feelings on this, not the no Twitter and Facebook etc, especially nowadays and these sites refusal to moderate. However I feel like people find communities of like minded people online CAN be good, especially and please don't take this as an offence, their are going to be stuff even the best of family aren't going to be equipped to discuss or have the experiences. For my own personal experience one of the things that changed my life was find a group of friends online of dorky people who were gay, lesbians, bi, trans, autistic, bullied like me who for the first time truly understood me, were kind and truly cared, knew how I was feeling; I fully admit, I wouldn't be alive today if it wasn't for them helping me when I was at my worse depression wise and would never of realized I was trans, I owe them so much and many are my strongest friends I've ever had. It helps the site (TheMarySue) did give a damn about moderation and wasn't filled with chuds and while community has dispersed since then due to changes, I'm still in touch regularly with so many of them.

Hell even here for all it's flaws has been useful, it's one of the reasons I worry about upsetting people here because I don't want to turn this place toxic and want people to happy. Users like Scrappy-Fan92, Lightsong Kyuuji, ClickyCal' Princess Bubblegum Dice and so many others are great, wonderful people that I'm so happy to have met and users like Fat4all are just funny and a joy to see. I feel like social media was more like ERA we would be in a better place.

[Venice]

Bluesky is definitely where the great content has gone:

Gail Simone's tweet is so much better if you visualize her actual face while reading it:





Because angry lady looks identical to these emotes:


    

[Jansen]

LMAO malds eats so much door dash he gets sick

Thanks, suckers!

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/women-you-are-great.1125621/#post-136614360

Thank you! 🥰

No one was talking about you, tyrant

Women are empirically better than man, pretty much no matter what metric you use.

It's so true that I had to trans myself to finally join the club 😭

Crying with happiness that women exist.

No, since you only focus on women and not the most important and most discriminated ethnical group.
Men in general is trash

[DavidCroquet]

A reply doesn’t mean it’s one of us. Regardless, the mods care little about alts these days because they’re that much in need of engagement. You only need to take a look at users like ‘missannethrope’ to see that.

Low post counts for people who’ve been there since 2017.

Are you Blackhawk163?

I don’t have a ResetEra account currently. When I did, I wasn’t anyone particularly of note, was only mentioned here a few times before I was aware of this site’s existence and joined under this moniker.

The first rule of Fight Bire Club is:

When asked about your current affiliations with ResetEra, you must say:
"I don’t have a ResetEra account currently. When I did, I wasn’t anyone particularly of note, was only mentioned here a few times before I was aware of this site’s existence and joined under this moniker."

[Eric Cartman]

Users like Scrappy-Fan92, Lightsong Kyuuji, ClickyCal' Princess Bubblegum Dice and so many others are great, wonderful people that I'm so happy to have met and users like Fat4all are just funny and a joy to see. I feel like social media was more like ERA we would be in a better place.

[Besticus Maximus]

Why is Dice hanging around with these freaks, she's a normal

[Eric Cartman]

Women are empirically better than man, pretty much no matter what metric you use.

It's so true that I had to trans myself to finally join the club 😭

Unless you need to open a pickle jar

[StandingOvation]

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Low post counts for people who’ve been there since 2017.

Are you Blackhawk163?

I don’t have a ResetEra account currently. When I did, I wasn’t anyone particularly of note, was only mentioned here a few times before I was aware of this site’s existence and joined under this moniker.

The first rule of Fight Bire Club is:

When asked about your current affiliations with ResetEra, you must say:
"I don’t have a ResetEra account currently. When I did, I wasn’t anyone particularly of note, was only mentioned here a few times before I was aware of this site’s existence and joined under this moniker."

[Uncle]

I didn't mean to include this one with the crazy above (although it is crazy), I just thought it was funny:

Wait. What did George Lucas do?

I might be remembering wrong, but I think at one point he tried to say that gay people didn't exist in the star wars universe. 

it says travel back to the 2000s, everyone absolutely hated lucas in the 2000s for the prequels

https://youtu.be/wzDIClx-_pY?t=52

[JoeBoy101]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/women-you-are-great.1125621/post-136608570

Women are empirically better than man, pretty much no matter what metric you use.

Absolutely positively has to be a troll. Or Blueballs. Equal chances.

Women are awesome, but “no matter the metric”? Ho boy.

Also, it’s fun seeing this thread, where even for some the celebration for women must come at belittling men, and compare against any thread even remotely concerned about men’s health (physical or mental) or welfare.

[D3RANG3D]

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[Uncle]

A reply doesn’t mean it’s one of us. Regardless, the mods care little about alts these days because they’re that much in need of engagement. You only need to take a look at users like ‘missannethrope’ to see that.

Low post counts for people who’ve been there since 2017.

Are you Blackhawk163?

I don’t have a ResetEra account currently. When I did, I wasn’t anyone particularly of note, was only mentioned here a few times before I was aware of this site’s existence and joined under this moniker.

o shit were we like "get a load of this mother fucker"

[DavidCroquet]

Kyuuji always in these men's discussions threads. Funny that.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/id-hate-to-be-a-young-man-growing-up-today-sports-betting-the-manosphere.1125729/#post-136613094

I'm sure it's rough with so many things aimed at dragging them down some right-wing sinkhole. There is an obvious and open appeal there when it comes to being told you're inherently better than half the population of the world.

Then again when I consider the threat of abortion restrictions, pregnancy tracking, a stark increase in extremist misogyny and a pull back to gender norms I'm more concerned with young women at this point.

Yeah, an obvious appeal. Like, it might even reach a point where someone would be tempted to "hop the fence", so to speak, to gain those perceived benefits.

Anyway here's an unrelated post from a different thread that I am adding for no reason in particular.

Women are empirically better than man, pretty much no matter what metric you use.

[killamajig]

Same. And just to tie in with the topic of this thread somewhat - when I was a pre-teen/teen, I was a bit of a cringy "pick me" to some extent. Used to say I was an egalitarian, not a feminist and all that. But I was also always staunchly pro-choice, pro-LGBT+ and being a "tomboy", never cared for rigid gender norms and hated it when people tried to enforce them on others, subtly or otherwise (e.g. "are you sure you don't want this [more feminine coded] one?" to "you're a girl, you should act like one", etc.). Right wing grifters' views on topics such as those is what ultimately stopped me slipping very far down any alt right pipeline.

So, if I was a teen growing up today, I think I'd actually be a lot different to the teen I was. I'd likely be a lot more actively progressive in the face of women and other minorities systemically losing their rights, instead of being naive and thinking "that won't ever happen" as I did back then.

 

Edit:
What's this racist dog whistle?

The boys most at risk are the ones without a father or a father that's not involved. I think as societies we could do more.

[Snoopy]

I like trolling ree by being overly positive about games. Multiplayer threads are best because for some reason ree has a special hate boner for them.

[xiceman191]

lucebuce said:
It's so true that I had to trans myself to finally join the club 😭
You were part of the club from the start, just didnt look like that from the outside perhaps

[killamajig]

How many times have we seen this in a thread created for a game.......

" _______ game looks good , can't wait to play it when it comes out!!" 

Banned Trolling permanent

[Nintex]

Sports betting, that's like one of the oldest forms of entertainment for guys.

What does it have to do with 'growing up today' or Andrew Tate.

[Ribosome]

What exactly does allyship offer to The Cis in return? I mean other than the get out of jail free card for guys to harass women.

Losing elections to rightwing nutjobs.

[D3RANG3D]

[killamajig]

Yeah I feel like for men, especially young men, it's more of an idealogical threat for them (obviously this is more so for straight CIS men) whereas young women and women in general have threats on all sides physical, mental, and physiological.

I get that women are more likey to get murdered or raped by a man but so are other males. I fear for my life more around men too.

We tried to create spaces for women without men, but some incels felt excluded, and now we can't have those spaces because thoses incels (Tyrant,Kunty,Echos etc..) need to find a way to get close to women.

[Besticus Maximus]

Sports betting, that's like one of the oldest forms of entertainment for guys.

What does it have to do with 'growing up today' or Andrew Tate.

Because the lunatic americans, on account of being worried about upsetting god, have by and large banned gambling until five minutes ago and they're only just coming round to the idea

[killamajig]

Sports betting, that's like one of the oldest forms of entertainment for guys.

What does it have to do with 'growing up today' or Andrew Tate.

Yep,  betting and sports have been linked throughout history. How can he not be from another planet?

[D3RANG3D]

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[DavidCroquet]

Edit:
What's this racist dog whistle?

The boys most at risk are the ones without a father or a father that's not involved. I think as societies we could do more.

This reminds me of a Boys and Girls Club of America ad. The commercial said "X% of young boys grow up without a mentor." 

A mentor! Like, damn, these kids are so fatherless that we can't even use the word in a sentence!

[DocWager]

Sports betting, that's like one of the oldest forms of entertainment for guys.

Yes, when was it readily available outside of Vegas sports books? Sure you had office pools, but now anybody, and their sister can do it right on their phones.

[Snoopy]

How many times have we seen this in a thread created for a game.......

" _______ game looks good , can't wait to play it when it comes out!!" 

Banned Trolling permanent

Never in a Sony thread

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/rep-al-green-shouts-trump-has-no-mandate-before-being-removed-from-house-chamber.1125564/#post-136603539

Funny how those two hags from the GOP didn't get escorted out when Biden was talking and were even praised by the right for their first ammendment rights.

But do it to the orange god and suddenly it's wrong and a breach of decorum.

Is this going to be our new "bitch/cunt" replacement? There needs to be a way for "male" Era to be misogynistic, like this guy. We can't let the transbians have all the fun with their new "cunt" word exception.