spaduf

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[–] spaduf 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

This is absolutely true and I'm always surprised there isn't more acknowledgement in progressive women's circles. Simple polling shows that roughly a third of women hold all men to these standards but there are significantly more who exclusively apply it to potential partners (speaking from a very US-centric perspective).

The honest solution is that women who think this way are simply not good partners, and should be avoided to whatever degree is possible.

[–] spaduf 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Well it's entirely dependent on their social circle, right? They're the ones who would or would not enforce these norms.

[–] spaduf 21 points 5 months ago (9 children)
[–] spaduf 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This is by design and most people fell for it entirely. Even the second highest content in this thread is carrying water for big oil.

[–] spaduf 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I think you've hit the nail on the head here.

Toxic man: oh guess I am just gunna keep doing what I am doing if you aren’t going to tell me what to do.

The reason this comes up is that masculinity is largely based around externally conferred social status. You have to constantly be doing something to maintain an image of masculinity. Often this means some sort of social or physical violence in the right time or place (beat up the mugger to defend your partner, call out your boss when you're being treated unfairly, put rival men in their place). Just as frequently, however, it is the expectation of a certain amount of self sacrifice (paying for meals, military service). What they don't understand is how anyone can expect them to maintain their social status when they are avoiding this role that they have been explicitly shown that there will be consequences if they fail to meet. The answer is simple: once you're out of the masculinity rat race, you're out. By refusing to take part in the hierarchy of dominance you will eventually be subject to a more general and, frankly, human set of standards.

The only problem is that all of these pressures are external in the first place and this whole dynamic creates strong social gender boundaries. It is very easy for a lot of men to look at their social circles and see exclusively people who punish them for a failure to live up to a masculine ideal.

[–] spaduf 2 points 5 months ago

Seems like an essential feature to me. Curious to see if it'll be in the beta.

[–] spaduf 3 points 5 months ago

I dunno if 'Siri but functional' is good enough to get points from me. That said this is definitely good for the industry

[–] spaduf 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

By casting doubt on a related but fundamentally different bit of medical tech? Yeah that's what we need: more folks questioning medicine based on pop science understandings of the technology.

[–] spaduf 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I mean the biggest innovation here isn't the "AI" (partially "on-device" or otherwise). It's exposing the apps action hooks to the model.

[–] spaduf 28 points 5 months ago

This isn't actually innovative it is just not OpenAIs business model. This recent trend is honestly a much smaller blip than most people recognize.

[–] spaduf 1 points 5 months ago

That's how mastodon works now and i think it's worthwhile as a basic feature.

[–] spaduf 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Those are not the sort of model anybody in the field would use (medical CV with deep learning based analysis is a vibrant field with many breakthroughs in recent years). These are the sort of models tech bros are trying to sell to the public as general AI. There is a world of difference.

 

"I’ve had many clients up and tell me that their friends, their family members, even their partners criticized them or mocked them for recognizing out loud that they were struggling. Of course we’re gonna be scared of being judged or seen as weak if we admit they’re struggling emotionally or mentally, if we know that’s happened before to others or even to us."

 

If you keep a Peertube/video list on Mastodon, this service goes a long way towards making YouTube unnecessary.

 

Research found while antidepressant prescriptions have risen dramatically in the US for teenage girls and women in their 20s, the rate of such prescriptions for young men “declined abruptly during March 2020 and did not recover.”

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