"Dad, look at this drawing I made in art class!"
"Not now, Alexander! If my jorts arent perfectly cuffed it will bring great dishonor to our house!"

lol that song is going to be in and out of my head for days now. in revenge, I'll return one Who earworm for another:

a 1980 Doctor-themed synth pop single that took me COMPLETELY off-guard by appearing in the middle of a good early left field synthpop compilation album youtu.be/Vle_lsjDDRs?...

The leftist cause thing is especially infuriating because it should not come as a surprise that the capitalism/white supremacy/patriarchy are tools of fascism to... turn the relatively privileged of the working class into tools of fascism. The chutzpah to play that card in reverse is next level

Oh yeah absolutely. I couldn't resist being snarky about it because the strong-silent-pressure-cooker thing gets leaned for enabling constantly in exactly the kind of opinion columns OP is about, but that's a much better way to put it

one could more generously make an argument about men being socialized not to talk about such feelings ironically leading to haha just kidding, we're only discussing it now because men are talking about it extra hard

It's definitely that, but I think it's ALSO the universal loneliness problem across demographics, which men are simply making about them on account of that's what men do best

Thread reminded me of this banger of a love ballad, which uses gendered job titles as wrongly as possible to intentionally hilarious effect youtu.be/2uZPi6iJtLk

oh right, since he's on here: h/t @kjhealy.co for writing that article, it's been my go-to "social graph metadata is scary, y'all" reference explainer for over a decade

Hell yeah, not just Tom Waits, but Tom Waits in his best Captain Beefheart mode ala Swordfishtrombones

I wish it were otherwise, but yeah... the candidate who lost twice went to the state school, and was in the State Legislature representing the college town when I attended / I volunteered for her state-level legislature campaigns. She ran a great campaign both times, but it was a major uphill battle