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An interesting recipe. Sit in a busy, fancy, hip café. Start reading about Camus on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Wait for 'Stayin' alive' by the Bee Gees to come on. Become self-aware. Start moving your head to the beat. Realize that partial dancing rocks. Remember that 'Stayin' alive' is the song to knead someone's heart to while resuscitating them. Watch Vinnie Jones explain the basics of CPR. Relax. Blog about it. Stare out the window.

Camus writes that our situation is absurd. Why? We constantly, even necessarily, ask ourselves 'what is the meaning of life?' when there is no answer. This creates an 'irresolvable emptiness' which we have to bear. This is probably similar to when you ask your friend / lover / favourite pet what they want for dinner and they say 'I don't know'. A necessary question that you scream into the infinite void.

But that's ok. Just like you eventually have to choose what to eat, eventually you have to choose what to live for. So what's the point? I dunno, you tell me.

Existence and the cruelty of clothes

Taken from a thread on the subreddit MensRights. The original post is a question as to why Mens Rights groups aren't more accommodating towards ethnic and sexual male minorities (Hispanic, cis etc.)
(Inspired by an article on the excellent feminist blog 'wehuntedthemammoth.com', link below)



What should be obvious to all is that the question presented above is of utmost importance. Are gay men for or against equality for men?

I will simplify the argument presented by Mr. Tyciol:

1) Let us begin with a fairly indisputable assumption - women are scary. Not just scary but truly terrifying. For anyone who hasn't realized why they're terrified of women it is because they have way more power than men - fact. You're welcome.
2) Since women are so terrifying it follows that many men are unable or unwilling to approach them and therefore seek the company of other men.
3) Although the main issue here is obviously equality we cannot ignore that a lot of sexual frustration builds up and makes these victims of fear (men) easy to seduce.
4) In other words; they become easy targets for gay men who are looking for converts to their cult of "homosexual lifestyle"
5) It seems that gay men benefit hugely from female dominance so how could they possibly want true equality?
6) The only possible explanation is that gay men who are actually gay are not all total assholes just trying to seduce vulnerable, sexually frustrated men, but, you know, that doesn't seem, like, super likely.

The true brilliance of Mr. Tyciol's comment is that is forces us to question the true meaning of life, of existence, of... society. Why do we exist? Why do we exist in a society? The obvious answer, as hinted at by Mr. Tyciol, is sex. Sex is the beginning and the end, the alpha and the omega. Let me explain.

We come out of a vagina. From the beginning it is not only about sex but also about sexual domination of the man. Women are free and naked while giving birth while any men present are forced to be clothed. I think no more needs to be said.

It now becomes apparent what Mr. Tyciol truly means:

"Think about how much better the world would be if doctors had to be naked."


Article here.