• InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Women are reliant on the function of civilization to prosper, they don’t do well when civilization breaks down, and they care for the welfare of their children.

    Men tend to be more short-term focused, many think they’ll do better in a collapse scenario (it’s a very common male fantasy, many preppers believe having a gun and food when civilization ends will make them the hero), and also assume the best thing they can do for their kids is to leave them money, even at the cost of the overall society.

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      1 year ago

      I love the implication that men do well when civilization breaks down, as if we were somehow immune to hunger, disease and violence.

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      Yea … so in short, men lean psychopathic and women lean reasonable (stereotypically speaking, with however much divergence being potentially slight).

      In the west, I’d suspect, beyond your comments, there’s a tendency for men to feel like they have to pretend to be “tough”, and often that translates into what the whole “toxic masculinity” thing is all about … just shitty and dumb behaviours to the point that caring about something important can “make you look like a wimp”.

      I like a line Bill Burr threw at Joe Rogan when talking about vaccines etc, where Rogan said something stupidly “hyper-macho” and Burr straight way just yelled something to the effect of “Ok, let’s all just drag our knuckles along the floor like we’re apes now”.

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      Jfc I’m a man but never imagined this. I’d be lying if I didn’t think I’d find a way just because failure to protect my family is not an option, but I feel chest tightness when I imagine this becoming any sort of reality, because I recognize the reality of that scenario.

      But I can totally imagine people with not enough sense to go beyond the fantasy story they’ve created for themselves. Like right wing welfare recipients, they are masochistic victims of their own making.