You’re like the 4th person making the same point…
And yet he persisted.
Do you really not see it?
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Do you really not see that some have decided that this thread’s topic is no longer “toxic masculinity” and is now “fun things that (probably toxic) men like to do with their cars”?
/s
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Oh, for God’s sake, never mind
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To be fair, you asked who was piling on, and when you were told it was you, you proceeded to post another video about drifting or something, thus piling on even more. Ceasing to dig your hole even deeper is always an option.
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By way of supportive anecdote the guy (let’s call him Kyle) I knew got kind of obsessed with it suddenly over the internet and started meeting up with people. He had been married to a highschool friend so I knew them over a period of time. As he did so he became more and more angry with his wife (and she with him) and more and more vocal about misogyny, rape, putting women in their place, etc. Their relationship became more and more toxic and abusive until they were both revolting to know really. She divorced him eventually after helping a young japanese wife escape her overwhelmingly shitty husband and get back to Japan. Anyway sad story. Two divorces. Kyle then had like a year or so where I heard about him here or there. Always looking for asian girls as somewhere on this journey he had become deeeeeeeeply obsessed with them. Then I heard one night he was racing at some illegal drifting site and he crashed. Dead on the scene.
No one I knew missed him at that point… but it hadn’t started out that way.
So… yeah… maybe the cake decorating aspect threw me but there’s an underlying point about there being a problem like this in car culture and honestly no real reason to deny it either.
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thank you for sharing that personal story. your posts are very informative to me. i mean that.
that i thought, originally, the decoration on that pie was cute in a way, is revealing to me in a way that made me rethink it. that @Millie_Fink saw something that i did not - or could not - see as a male creature, is giving me something to consider going forward.
trying to listen more, “explain” less.
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Or a Cybertruck.
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I had to look this up. It is a thing. The official car for toxic masculinity has been found.
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Fixed.
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I can hear the ‘jokes’ already.
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Same thing stood out to me. I am a straight, cis, white, moderately wealthy man with all the privileges. I have never been accused of being an oppressor, assaulter or any such thing. Only thing I have heard is “man, you can be loud when you get stirred up!” which is not a bad thing IMHO, considering the things that get me stirred up. If the guys who are being held to account are really “like you” then perhaps you need to rethink some of your life choices?
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Good story about this bloke falling into the Nazi rabbit hole, then finding his way out again.
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Channeling Folger’s coffee, We secretly replaced these guys’ soap with real nuts and bolts. Let’s see if they notice!
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I bet they exfoliate really well. Probably too well.
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The first thing that comes to my mind is that those are going to be incredibly inconvenient to use. There’s a reason why solid soap comes in bars!
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Real men don’t use soap. Germs are not a thing.
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I seriously wish there could be /s attached to that. I weep for my country…
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I’m actually surprised that going around in a cloud of stench, like Tromp apparently does, hasn’t become a thing (also grateful!).
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Here is the tiktok…
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