Comments by "Charlie Kahn" (@charliekahn4205) on "ContraPoints" channel.

  1. I'm betting this conversation happened at least 10,000 times on Tumblr throughout those ten years, and each time took this long.
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  2. The only catcalling I would respect is someone getting cats to move toward me.
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  3.  @MBrulla  More like, "pspspspsps"
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  4. If it were entirely about experiencing trauma and pain at the hands of men, a huge amount of men would be women. News flash, that isn't the case.
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  5.  @CatFish107  Unless the thing oppressing you is in fact repressing you, in which it can be from all directions at once.
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  6. It was only a matter of time before some people realized that humans are highly deficient in the bodily-fur department.
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  7. I have had way too much experience with condescending people telling me what I'm allowed to do to ever be able to take orders without reason. I will only accept guidance in the form of suggestion.
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  8. Get a hobby. Getting into Unix/Minix/*nix/*nux is something you can do without leaving your computer, and it's educational. It's also really fun to yell at Microsoft.
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  9. That's sorta what capitalism was meant to do. Now that capitalism is exclusive and gated, the common men have no way of defining worth outside of romance.
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  10.  @connorp3030  While it is true that some systemic discrimination does exist, it is in its early stages, and has yet to become virulent, unlike the systemic discrimination faced by other groups. While with historically oppressed groups, systemic discrimination feeds cultural discrimination, with men it is the other way around—cultural discrimination feeds systemic discrimination. This is similar to the forms of widespread discrimination faced by Black people in the Reconstruction period in the South, before the process of discrimination began to feed into itself. Thus, it is not yet as big of a problem as the others. Not to mention that said systemic discrimination that does exist is not yet universal and is still confined to a few set fields. It is still a problem, but it's not the most urgent one yet.
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  11. Expatriate to France, become dedicated to art, wear quirky clothes, repatriate.
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  12. @fjejdhdnwhjfifjeheyd Then why don't you care about "heterosexual" or "binary"? It's the same idea.
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  13. I'm open to organizing a second Woodstock if there are any takers
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  14. Maybe this is why men like to park right next to wherever they're going.
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  15. Also #BringBackElevatorMusic
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  16.  @derpyllama1857  She didn't say that you had to leave, so if you want you can awkwardly stand in the corner and watch the presentation.
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  17.  @nyft3352  I was just saying that with your body type and face you would make a decent French philosopher or artist, and you'd have something that others could recognize you for.
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  18.  @StigmataMartyrz  In fantasy they can actually be a different species which is neither human nor cat, although possessing the stature of a human and cat ears and a tail. In that case, the meowing is just a speech affectation due to the shape of their mouths. But in real life, some people just like the idea.
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  19.  @SinMore  Yeah, the term doesn't make much sense to me either, especially since it only refers to Anglo-American culture, and yet applies to all of Europe and the Americas. Not to mention that there being a West implies that there is also an East.
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  20.  @sazhaxeramezha449  Can we agree that politics is a matrix? You can be libertarian and leftist, and you can be authoritarian and leftist. That doesn't make anyone less leftist. You can believe in the use of capitalism to further leftist goals, and you can believe that capitalism doesn't work at all, or that it should be contained to where it can't be used for change. Neither strategy is more or less leftist; they're just different ways of accomplishing the same thing.
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  21. Thank you for your work, sir. You were part of a dedicated team who laid the groundwork for our society today, and for that, I commend you.
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  22. The neckbeards are annoying sometimes (but some of them can be pretty nice, passionate people who just look like that), so much that I'm thinking of changing the name of my operating system from Fedora Linux to Bowler Linux.
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  23.  @potmki6601  And the great thing about using a platform made up entirely of pre-recorded video is that you only have to volunteer your efforts once, and then you can move on to other topics. Whenever you want to de-radicalize someone, just send them a link.
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  24.  @Chaosdude7111  Except Kronk is actually a smart man; he was just told all his life that he shouldn't be. Kronk knows what he wants in life, and how to make people like him. It's just his inner voice of his father and his longing for satisfaction that's holding him back. He is a brilliant chef and social worker, who was never given the opportunity to explore that potential except by those who wished to manipulate him.
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  25.  @cedar4539  speaking Gaelic helps too
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  26. Superman?
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  27. Not to mention the large amount of men who want both
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  28. I mean, they made football into a gentleman's game.
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  29.  @connorp3030  Feminism is not one movement; if it were then feminist ideology would be the rule of the day by now. There are multiple feminist philosophies, ideologies, sets of ideals, and belief systems. Most of them are very broad, wishing only for the most basic of changes, furthering the goal of only equality. However, a small minority tends to take it a little bit far, some going so far as to make generalizations and dehumanize their perceived enemy. I myself believe that about 99.99% of feminists would sign on to the resolution of men's issues. However, some only see that 0.01% who have been scarred beyond repair and have given up on equality in favor of revenge. I think the feminist movement can accommodate a more positive inclusion of men. And anyone who protests this change should take their own advice and deal with the fact that times are changing.
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  30.  @icarvs_vivit  Except he's not. He was just only given the opportunity to explore his passion for cooking and social work by people who wished to manipulate him. In reality, he's a brilliant chef, talented marketer, and well-meaning social worker.
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  31. I think he would like ContraPoints videos. They're informative, unapologetic, sarcastic, and understanding of the audience.
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  32. Gay does mean happy after all.
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  33. I mean, maybe if you gain a bit of weight, laugh at everything, get a really interesting hobby, and develop a highly refined taste in beer, people will see you as less dangerous. But it's still unlikely.
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  34. You can reach similar levels at a much lower effort by using bath salts and a type of desk that attaches to the bathtub so you can use sentitive electronics without fear.
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  35.  @Sl1mch1ckens  I myself an American, left-leaning, and capitalist. I believe that capitalism can be used in and of itself as a method of creating equity through prosperity that gives itself back. Does my support of the use of existing infrastructure to further leftist goals make me any less leftist? No. It makes me a libertarian leftist.
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  36. I mean, a large amount of sexist judgement is perpetuated by other women. That doesn't mean women aren't victims of societal demands.
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  37. Do people even actually care what sign is on the bathroom door beyond force of habit?
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  38.  @MaggieKleppe  I feel that the problem is not that most men are, but that most men have the potential to be. I mean, you don't just pour testosterone into a body and expect nothing to happen.
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  39.  @goldfishpainter_emi  I find the best way to get masculine men to sign on is to make it seem masculine. How about, "competitive venting"?
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  40.  @me2117  Can't we just agree that war sucks for everyone involved?
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  41. Tbh the books aren't all that good. The concept is interesting, but Rowling never does anything with it beyond everything Tolkien already did, and the seventh book is just frantically adding plot points because all the points already made were thought to be resolved when they could have worked perfectly well. The rest of Book 7 is boring exposition and predictable suffering for no reason. I've been mad about it for years.
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  42. Snape wasn't a bigot. Snape was a radical non-bigot who was pretending to be a bigot in order to spy on his enemies, in order to contribute to the Dumbledorean cause.
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  43. I aspire to be a Jitsite.
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  44. Would it specialize in unusual food textures?
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  45. I can't go back to them because now I know how badly written they are. They're meant for kids, I know, but they could have been so much more interesting to read, but instead fall into literary tropes again and again, just to support a plot that didn't need to exist if only Rowling had just decided to take advantage of the potential of the premise.
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  46.  @justasquid8930  I'm saying that euphoria and dysphoria are related, but they are not the same sensation. You can experience one without the other, and they are opposites. In the case of this comment, imo a more accurate statement would be that not only is dysphoria integral to the experience, but euphoria is also a key part.
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  47. Humans tend to ally best when they're allying against something. Maybe ol' JK been playin' the long game this whole time.
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  48. If there is no equality, there will always be a fight to see who's on top. And when there's constant flip-flopping of class structure, there is constant violence to carry it out. So why not have equality?
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  49. If you wanted protection, advocate for more single, lockable, unisex bathrooms! Or maybe some unused rooms!
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  50. Where in the World is Carmen San Diego? At the cleaners, wearing the darkest clothing she owns.
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  51. Except Mid-Atlantic also refers to the accent that all TV and radio announcers used from the mid-1880s through the 1940s, constructed to emulate a middle ground between Standard American and Londoner.
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  52. Wait, it did?
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  53. En fait, I recognize the attitudes of the incel, which goes beyond sexism into actual, pure hatred, stemming from something unrelated, in the ways of the TERF. They exhibit misandry which is similar to but goes beyond what is present in some areas of society (like schools and pediatric psychology), coupled with raw, visceral hate which comes from somewhere else and strengthens their bias. These are basically the same people, on opposite sides of an imaginary war.
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  54.  @elodeep  Yeah, those codes are really outdated. Luckily France has ways of changing them rather easily.
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  55. How about a mirror to feminism by definition? A movement that aims to achieve equality of both sex and gender by, in conjunction with other movements to advance the interests of other groups, liberating men from the societal norms and expectations placed upon them.
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  56.  @makipri  XY is generally thought to mean chromosomal male. XX denotes chromosomal female. Thus, the vast majority of men are XY.
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  57. The Dutch abolished gender a long time ago. For inanimate nouns, but still. An inanimate object can only be genderless or any gender. They got rid of the two-gender system and ended up with two genders again.
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  58. Shouldn't communism be an ideology which by nature is made plain, apparent, and understandable to the less educated working class?
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  59. Nah, that one's orange juice. Don't get them mixed up.
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  60. That's meme culture in a nutshell. It takes initially offensive parlance and distills it down to its most basic, inoffensive concept, usually for the sake of humor. Those outside of meme culture, such as those within the mainstream media, do not understand this idea, and thus misconstrue the meme community to be referring to the problematic connotations they were filtering out.
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  61. It's always nice to debate someone whose modus operandi is being passive aggressive.
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  62. People become allies way more easily when they're allying against something.
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  63. So gender euphoria? Dysphoria is literally the opposite of euphoria.
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  64. Of course, that doesn't mean these people cannot be persuaded away from their current state (given muh of their ideology hinges on the freedom to do so), or perhaps repositioned to other areas. After all, we do need some people to identify areas of contempt, as well as people to identify the root causes.
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  65.  @DragonNexus  Feminism: a movement critical to the evolution, nay, survival, of our society, which is crippled by outdated and inaccurate naming conventions across the board.
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  66. Motion #1: We base it off of the old ideal, since it already takes men's physical advantages and disadvantages into account. Motion #2: We axe any and all norms in terms of personal preferences. Anything can and will be manly, including but not limited to dresses, makeup, lawnmowers, chainsaws, football, bridge, architecture, art, writing, engineering, research, and teaching.
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  67. Shredding could be plausibly compared to caressing, but you'd need to be really good at it.
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  68. I hate attention but love being well known. Maybe I could lend her some of my attention.
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  69. GREEK. WITH NOTHIN' ON IT.
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  70.  @martinb4272  Afaik it depends on who writes said series. If the director/producer or head writer is a trans woman, and this whole thing is a labor of love, by trans women for trans women, then maybe it could work.
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  71.  @fandomcringebucket  Or maybe the current cop who, because of said racism, became a lone cop and left the union?
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  72. And just like with any competition, it needs to be organized and subsidized. Let the best misogynist let out their potential. On the COURT!
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  73.  @MN-ol6ek  So you know how we have hand dryers? I have an idea.
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  74.  @henryfleischer404  Judaism is more of a nation than a religion. This is why conversion is difficult.
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  75. It is if you can hold it comfortably.
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  76.  @connorp3030  Right now, men don't exactly have a gender role, or at least one that men would ever really follow without external force. So while that role is being reconstructed, or, failing that, gender roles themselves are being completely destroyed, we need something to replace gender as a defining factor in the meantime. This means doing things that are not gendered ideals. Like being smart or kind or humorous. Leave gender on the back burner until it needs to be adjusted, and fulfill your duty as a human instead.
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  77. I feel like the gaming community can be saved. If all gamers could grow up and become game developers, the world would be a better place.
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  78.  @nevreiha  Thought it was "Mid-Atlantic"
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  79.  @Aisha_Luv  I think the same applies if you look like Santa Claus, wear suspenders, and speak fluent Gaelic.
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  80. Personally I feel like there's another component here, which was essentially glossed over in this video as societal/psychosomatic. I hereby propose Supplementary Postulate 2a: The Real Component. It is a well-known fact that (Postulate 2a-i) any sort of hurtful stereotype, expectation, or assumption that gains a large following is able to gain that following because some see in it a kernel of truth, and in fact, the targets of this hateful thinking may in themselves find some modicum of the claims these judgements make. This is especially evident in cases where the "othered" group is significantly biologically different from the "main" group, to the point that it could affect behavioral patterns. This pattern of thinking has been explored in countless works of fiction and nonfiction, to the point where it is even emphasized in content which young children can understand, such as the 2001 feature film Shrek. It would therefore logically make sense that the assumption of virulence that accompanies the male form would incidentally be compounded within the mind of a man by the results of said man's personal introspection of his subconscious, as a result of the, due to our current circumstances, rightful, problematicization of heterosexual masculine thinking. Upon hearing the stories of hundreds, if not thousands or millions, of women who have had traumatic experiences with the actions of men, he may decide to, in other words, take a look inside himself, and find, lurking beneath the surface, that same potential for violence, forceful sexuality, and mindless impulse, that they know has been the cause of the trauma of billions over the centuries. Alluding to the aforementioned Shrek, the ogre will be hounded and feared by the villagers to the point where the ogre resorts to the very thing those villagers fear, in order to survive, and loathes themselves for it. It would make sense that a man, seeing in himself that little seed of truth in what others fear him to be, may in turn retreat into self-loathing and self-repression in the same way that Shrek isolates himself from society. In order to continue logically, this train of thought requires input on human internal morality and intention. However, that is not the topic being discussed as of now, and it has been explored countless times before. So in order to continue logically, I am going to assume that the overwhelming majority of humans have, at their core, some good intentions for their fellow humans, and wish the best for the people they know (that is, until some sort of stress overload causes them to abandon this notion and become a cynic). With that out of the way, assuming that most young men, at this phase in life, generally want to do good for others, knowing that they have, deep within themselves, the potential, nay, the instinct, to commit savage acts against the ones they love, in the name of perverse satisfaction, having been told this throughout their lives and also seeing it within themselves, would naturally set them to at least begin trodding along one logical path, which has one conclusion: that they are, deep down, monsters, and must keep their impulses completely repressed to keep others safe. This logical chain applies not only to sexual immorality, but, I theorize, to all preemptive assumptions which have the effect of making their target seem a danger. For instance, a man, knowing that men have the potential to easily overpower women, may see that latent physical potential in himself, and thus seek to never raise a finger. This phenomenon, which I dub the Reflective Warrant Effect, is, per my theory, the cause of the social, emotional, and physical repression, not to mention competition, redirection, and seclusion, that together make up what we know as the masculine cultural pattern. This unwritten code dictates that due to men's innate physical potential, men must never be emotional, angry, or violent, except as a last resort, in order to prevent harm to others. It then goes without saying that this repression, which many men see as necessary in order for society to function, will eventually take a toll on the repressed party's mental health, leading them to seek new means of self-gratification, backpedaling into violence and objectification. In conclusion, it is not only societal norms of masculinity which leads to the distress of young straight men, but also the real component that they see within themselves; it is not possible for this outcome to be reached with just one or the other. EDIT: This analysis may be slightly skewed by personal philosophical experience, as I may myself just be feeling guilty about my own subconscious. I don't know if it's a male thing or a teen thing but it's making me feel like I'm a danger to society please help.
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  81. Don't go on entertainment Twitter, and don't read anything @-ing anyone.
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  82. Why not, instead of Men's Rights (the rights of men have been argued for and increased thousands of times over the past few centuries), call it Men's Liberation? That way, it doesn't seem like it's reactionary, but instead proactive.
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  83.  @alinhatnean6438  Then again, that's not the problem. Equating actual men's liberation activism with the current state of the idea would delegitimize the cause, due to the abundance of "men's rights activists" who are simply out to degrade feminism.
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  84.  @alinhatnean6438  no. I am only pointing out that from a marketing standpoint the image of the name "men's rights activists" has been sullied by reactionary trolls. Thus, it would make more sense to use a different name.
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  85.  @mdbahrozbaburali  It embodies the rights and well-beings of men (in its modern form) due to the technicality of intersectionality. All inequalities tend to hurt both the oppressor and the oppressed due to the social stigmas they create, and the way that some of our many class systems override or combine with each other in certain situations and pairings. Plus it turns out that you can teach a man not to be terrible, and the reason men are more prone to stereotypical male behavior is because they are in turn dealing with societal expectations set upon them, which are also hurting them. If you just demonize men, you're not going to stop men from attacking, at least not in the long term. All in all, in the end, feminism needs to help men in order to work.
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  86.  @mdbahrozbaburali  physics is a type of applied mathematics. It's not all of applied mathematics.
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  87. I used to think that. Then I developed a real romantic attraction in the summer of 2021 and now I see why the obsession exists.
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  88. I got it on the first try, but maybe because it's been done before for other groups a few too many times for my liking.
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  89. Not quite. Marx's ideals were shaped by the injustices of the First Industrial Revolution, where labor laws were nonexistent. Most of the injustices he saw at the time were about money and wealth, not social standing. Today, most injustices are based on birth-based discrimination and not familial wealth, since economic mobility is now much higher. Thus, this ideology is similar to Marx's but not quite the same.
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  90.  @dontworryhouston  Yes, these problems still exist, but Marxism chooses mainly to focus on the elimination of the wealth-class system. Meanwhile, today, while this wealth-class disparity does still exist, it is now mostly driven by race, ethnicity, gender, and other purely social classes. Thus, Marxism, which was created in a world where inequality was seen as having only one or two dimensions, cannot truly apply in our world where inequality has thousands of dimensions.
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  91. The way I choose to deal with the new reality is to use very specific, flexible terminology for my identity in this department. Thus, instead of saying "straight cis male", which doesn't make sense at all in the real world, I say "chromosomally, biologically male masculine human attracted to human characteristics commonly found in biological females". This can be abbreviated based on context (for instance, when talking between humans and not including dolphins or aliens I can exclude the "human" parts).
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  92. Did you know: with just a little bit of dedication, you could turn your hobby into a passion by becoming a game developer. I suggest starting out in the 2D realm with Clickteam Fusion, GameMaker Studio, or just raw UI code, then maybe making the jump to 3D using an existing engine. If you like it, you could even write your own engine in OpenGL or Vulkan.
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  93. You know why ogres have layers? Because they can remove a few of them when necessary.
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  94. Maybe "gendered" is a better way to put it, since saying "that's very gender" is basically saying "that's very Belgium" in that both don't make any sense.
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  95. When there's a bounty, there will always be at least one person who chooses to seek it.
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  96.  @gingerroot961  I mean, not much would really happen if we did abolish borders. There's only one country right now that even has defined borders, and that's the US. Every other country has very vague lines and border zones.
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  97. Kronk could have been the most intelligent man in the empire had he not been held back by his father's expectations.
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  98. Nothing wrong with reinventing the wheel a few times; it only goes to show that some people were right.
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  99. They should get her to act on SNL
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  100. Then again, I don't think it's healthy to only have one fixation. I consider gamers to be people who make video games their entire life and do nothing else.
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  101.  @madi5286  I keep thinking Fedora MRA sounds like a specialist Linux distribution.
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  102. Sorta, but not quite. Iroh is a man who grew to understand himself, and should be listened to for this reason, but this is because he came to know himself and his ideals directly thanks to many years of personal experience, trauma, grief, and guilt.
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  103.  @patt5085  Which version? Mozart, Monty Python Holy Grail Scene 1, Monty Python Holy Grail Recurring theme…?
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  104. Sometimes I think we should have a non-essential organ donation system. Why waste all those secondary sexual characteristics, bodily lipids, and bone shavings?
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  105.  @davidegaruti2582  Maybe, but they do tend to take a bit of a heavily repressive stance on natural male behavior. Any sort of healthy left-wing group centered on the health of cis males would have to be focused on the embracing of male instinct, not its demonization.
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  106.  @plumlogan  I'm pretty sure this person was referencing the current state of things per the majority, not relating to any individual. It is possible for the norm to break, but it is highly unlikely.
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  107. I miss the days when it was just the name of a small international airline servicing the coasts and contents of the Gulf of Mexico.
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  108. @ashy In fact, the comparison grows deeper given the choice incels make is one of inaction, making their pill the blue one.
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  109. Then we need some male feminists in this conversation. Remember that feminism is a movement which is entirely based on a needed course of action, and anyone can believe that this course is needed.
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  110.  @outlaster3431  Use their male experience and feminist knowledge to better construct an ideal.
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  111. The male version of these people are generally called "femboys" for some reason.
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  112.  @elodeep  Yeah, even I hate the idea that anyone who dares to talk to someone who dares to talk to someone who dares to talk to someone who used to be a fascist is no longer human. That's the one thing I don't like about the antifascist movement, the same people who brought you the Résistance and the various internal revolts in 1930s Germany.
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  113.  @elodeep  I meant that it is the case in many anti-fascist organizations.
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  114.  @JerodZboinski  Well, when the obvious career paths have failed you, and there is no path which works, there are three options. 1) give up, 2) suffer through a career you hate, and 3) dig a path yourself. If you choose 3, it can work for every part of society you feel constrains you. Including maritime law.
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  115. What's wrong with a file-sharing protocol? The Web (in its current form as an HTML-powered bloatfest) is the problem. The Web was originally intended to be method of universal file access, not direct consumption.
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