I’d let my wife have the sun lounger all day so I can go and explore by myself
Agreed, I’d be exploring the pool bar.
Not a cake?
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As a germaphobe, I can relate.
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Berlin’s not your favourite place then?
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The guy makes some good points about what is important, but in saying the show misses them he shows an interpretation of the show that is incredibly shallow. The things he raises as being important alternate themes to address were themselves also themes of the show.
The show isn’t explicit about much of it, in part because the disconnect Jamie and Eddite itself was unstated (isnt that part of the problem) but just something they both knew was there. You can see some of Jamie’s behavior and attitude being driven by a misdirected attempt to find a way to be the kid his macho dad could connect with. Both parents are also aware of it which is illustrated in their repeated statements of surprise/confusion over Jamie picking Eddie to be his responsible adult rather than his mum. You see it in the moment Eddie turns away from Jamie in the police interview room and as Jamie later comments on to his therapist was one he felt intensely, and seemed to illustrate a bigger issue between the two. Eddie was a guy doing his best and was genuinely trying but precisely because he was a bit of an old fashioned guy’s guy didnt really have the tools to connect in a meaningful way with a son who wasnt those things.
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Yeah, I posted it it mainly as an alternative viewpoint, and I agree that the show is not exclusively focussed on the social media aspect, but a lot of the reaction has been.
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Yeah I understand that. Anything that has nuance gets automatically flattened and simplified in the public discourse about it.
This piece is awful, but a great illustration of how toxic so much of sports discourse has become and what counts as “content” these days
When I first heard of the story I was grossed out it was being covered at all by Sports talk shows, but assumed it must have at least been a soap opera around a high profile athlete from Ole Miss. Nope, it’s just gossip about two rando college students who have nothing to do with sports. The fact it is seemingly completely made up makes it worse, but even if the story was “19 year old college girl whores around” how the fuck is that fodder for grown men to make a topic of conversation on sports talk? Even this piece in this athletic has been published with the comments turned off such is the expectation of manosphere awfulness filling it.
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This post isnt directly about gender, but it’s relevant here because this is the guy who made the provocative “what is a woman” film and promoted it on the basis that he was being cancelled. These dots are not only not difficult to connect, but if you cannot see that then your credulity and willingness to believe things you are told makes it difficult to understand how you can get through a day succesfully.
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If I told you that a man punched another man in the face, and that one of them was Matt Walsh, you’d immediately know who was punched and why he deserved it. That’s just a fact.
Also like the fact he mentioned one of them was white, like they have more of a propensity of getting stabbed. I guess in his world view stabbings only matter when a white person is at the end of one.
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Anyone who makes that sort of claim like that is automatically demonstrating themselves to be imbeciles.
Unless things have changed massively in the psychological field over the last few years, there would have been no evidence linking any “race” (which is in quotation marks because it’s a social construct) with violence. If there had been, it would have been a massive thing in the field and there is no way I would not have heard about it.
The human race eh… Guys who are not scared to dance :0)
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