• EndOfLine@lemm.eeEnglish
    411·
    10 months ago

    That’s the most beta thing you can do.

    I’ve never heard anybody I would consider “manly” identify behaviors as “beta” or “alpha”. Only a bunch of scared little boys who are still overly obsessed with their penises.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      21·
      10 months ago

      I don’t even understand why people care about what is or is not “manly.” I have a penis and it functions. I’m not sure what else is necessary.

      • EndOfLine@lemm.eeEnglish
        13·
        10 months ago

        I think this line hints at it the underlying motivation.

        A national poll conducted in late 2022 found that 4 out of 10 Americans believe society has become too “soft and feminine.”

        Basic mysogyny to have a negative and / or “less than” mentality around women. I think a lot of males don’t consciously realize how much they marginalize and dehumanize women but are desperate to avoid being treated or thought of in the same manner. But that’s just an opinion based on zero research on the topic.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          7·
          10 months ago

          Maybe that’s why it doesn’t make sense to me. There has never been anything in my experience that has made me think of women as lesser than men.

          I mean I realize misogyny exists, it just is something I have difficulty understanding.

  • Plibbert@lemmy.ml
    13·
    10 months ago

    One of my best friends started doing this. It was around that time he started to become a little narcissistic.

  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
    8·
    10 months ago

    This scammers emails me about once a every three months demanding bitcoins or he will publish a video he claims he took of me as well as my porn viewing habits. It isn’t the laughable attempt at blackmail that bothers me so much as it is the last two paragraphs where he tells me how God wants me to No-Fap and how glorious it is to no longer do it. I can hate a scammer but I feel bad hating someone clearly mentally touched.

    • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 months ago

      Also could you pretend that your back hurts to see what it might be? I don’t have my own doctor right now due to I live in America. So just let me know what chronic back pain might be.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    103·
    10 months ago

    “That’s the most beta thing you can do. That’s the weakest thing any man can do,” he says.

    I’m cool with that.

  • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
    32·
    10 months ago

    Some folks are realizing they are fully addicted to a shitty lifestyle.

    Caffeine all day, weed all evening, alcohol regularly, porn daily(or throughout every day). All instant gratification. All the time. No discipline, no exercise, no patience.

    This nofap stuff is a fucked up off shoot of some folks realizing they aren’t living right. They then latch onto this particular thing, and take it way too far.