Then more power too you

i definitely don't think it necessary for a healthy life, and i certainly don't dream of becoming a member of some elite or think that working out will get me anything besides a pretty reflection and the ability to lift stuff, but it's still worth it to me

I've also heard that healthy exercise in one's youth makes moving around easier to continue to do in one's old age

Are you drunk, Lev?

Because that might explain why you keep misunderstanding what people type.

Again, you don't HAVE to post extraordinarily long, tedious, and banal posts about things you seem not to actually understand.

Rather just STFU for a change
Be kind, be helpful, and post less

@ggggbbybby

With a winch, a jack, hydraulics, the weakest person easily lifts, bends, carries far more than any muscleman, and for longer. Having big muscles is not a thing a young man needs to or should regard as a step into some sort of ubermensch strata. If you desire to be all buff, by all means have at it, but what the body-maxing influencers are selling is bullcrap

Muscles are hotter in the minds of men than in the eyes of women

(1.) I didn’t say that women have enjoyed universal equality throughout history.

(2.) I also didn’t say anarchists are immune to sexism, though we *are* better at fighting it than a lot of cultures.

(3.) Don’t put words in my mouth. It’s rude, it’s dishonest, it’s very bad form.

(4.) It is naive to assume that a person of either gender was a leader and not a common soldier. Common soldiers of any gender are *far* more common than leaders. That’s how it is in their lives, that’s how it is in their graves.

(5.) The Irish death squads were overwhelming male and operated under male command. The Troubles weren’t about fighting sexism. They were about fighting colonialism. Not everyone on earth has the same priorities. Personally, I never got involved in The Troubles except for one scuffle in a bar in SF’s Tenderloin, and I didn’t start it. Not my priority. My first duty is to resist here in the belly of the beast. However, I won’t criticize the Irish paramilitariesI for not doing it my way. I agree with Fredrick Douglass who wrote, "Let every man work for the abolition of slavery in his own way. I would help all and hinder none."

1. lifting heavy things
2. helping people with shit without getting tired
3. muscles are hot as fuck

Yeah, that too. We may have good color fidelity, but we don't have a monopoly on it. We don't even have a monopoly on high heat efficiency; most insects can keep moving longer than we can. But complex collaboration belongs to us and only a handful of other species.

We have two physical advantages over most other animals

- heat tolerance
- ability to smell petrichor

But that's it.

We are thin skinned, musculatly weak, and slow, and fhe laughable muscle man trope is in stark contrast to how feeble we are.

Our secret sauce is complex collaboration, not physique.

Agreed. Humans didn't grow to 8 billion in number and spread to every single continent on Earth by always going it alone. They did it in groups. Big groups.

Consider, for example, what we did to the smallpox virus. That was an effort made by our ENTIRE SPECIES to wipe out an age-old threat.

We are the humans. Resistance is futile.

I guess the moral of this story is that it's silly to lament what you don't have while forgetting what you do have.

Most of the human body's alleged flaws are actually misunderstood trade-offs.

* We are weak for our height, but only because we're ridiculously tall for our weight.

* Our eyes work poorly at night, but their color fidelity is top-notch. Animals trying to blend into the scenery often won't fool humans.

* We can't outrun a deer, but we can keep chasing it long after it has passed out from heat exhaustion. Our skin isn't made for stopping claws; it's made for heat efficiency.

your "evidence" that some women had high status, because of the things they were buried with, is not proof that women have enjoyed universal equality throughout history. some women were queens, but it would be silly to conclude that all societies with queens were inherently egalitarian. you might as well might conclude that Margaret Thatcher's use of paramilitary death squads in Northern Ireland is a prime example of "girl power" — women who rise to the top of patriarchal societies are usually anti-feminist and see themselves as the exception to the rules they think other women should live under.

and before you go "but but but anarchists" anarchists aren't immune to sexism. there are so many anarchist groups that have fallen apart because men couldn't shut up and do the work. you don't know what you're talking about and you should sit down and listen instead of posting through it.

I used to carry my mother's old, unused purses around. They were perfect for carrying my toys and other small bits in, especially on vacations.

These things are all learned behaviors. What's the modern phrase? "Don't start no trouble; won't be no trouble." Teach your children better.

Please do, "Lev"
Go and be an excitable blowhard somewhere else.
Also, fuck off, you ninny

I’m bored with this troll. I’m going to go something productive with my time. If any of you want to keep listening to his crap, be my guest. I have better things to do.

(1.) Contested? Where? By who? Be specific.

(2.) I clearly *understand* what you wrote. It’s not scholarship. It’s blather. Actual scholars defend their statements with evidence, not ad hominems.

(3.) If I wanted to be insulted by reud, ignorant trolls I’d have stayed on Xhitter. Maybe you should go over there where your sort are welcome. At least then you wouldn’t be trolling the feminists of Mastodon.

(There were a whole bunch of times where my coworkers didn't appear to understand that "Can't form a a reasonable opinion with the amount of information available" was even an option. Back when I first started, they were asking for my opinion on topics and systems I knew nothing about, and didn't seem to believe that I truly didn't have any due to that lack of information)

1. You don’t need to be heard. Rather shut up. (See link)
2. You clearly misunderstood what I wrote. Maybe lay off the sauce or change meds
3. You clearly misunderstood the scholarship on the (very contested) interpretation of (very rare) grave goods that (may) suggest that *some* women, in *some* cultures, were *sometimes* also *periodic* participants in warfare in the 300,000 or so years of modern humans.

Also

Fuck off, you blowhard

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@LevZadov

About half of my shorts are available for free at Physician's Weekly, my eBooks are on Kobo, and my paperbacks are orderable at most any bookseller. My novels are mostly about endearingly psychopathic girls.

First read the free chapters, though.

My fiction is as pithy, but has far more murder and amusingly fatal accidents

Explore them, deeply feel them, and for the most part, thank fuck you won't ever do them. Learn about you