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Oct 7, 2021Liked by Max

im interested in the correlation (if any) between decrease in violence and increase in suicide rates particularly in oecd countries. seems like its always two sides to a coin.

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Mar 29, 2023·edited Mar 29, 2023

Hmmm... My mother perceived this article (when I read it out to her) as patronizing, misogynist and even extremist. (I can't say you didn't warn us, but still.) Somehow her threshold of "extremism" seems mild to me, though (she also said that of a somewhat-blunt statement that school isn't really about learning; which shouldn't even be that far off, given that it was definitely a net negative to myself). Patronization has fuzzy boundaries anyway.

It's likely (though wasn't directly said) that she presumed you to be right-wing (considering that she doesn't read this herself, nor did I have time to read any other articles to her), but you can't get away with being as presumptuous about heterodox views as you can in the mainstream, so whatever.

I grant that your statements about female emotions are meant to be empirical, not normative. (Although the data's probably fuzzy enough that you can bend it either way to a fair extent.) Whether this can be made clearer without becoming awkward, I'm not sure. And I'm sure you're right that mainstream, punitive responses to alienated youth acting-out (be it physical aggression, adopting radical ideologies, etc.) don't help (which even she agrees on the substance of).

It ultimately depends how far we truly plan to take equality, I guess. (I like big girls, if that helps my case.) I'm more than happy for women to play action games, although the consensus seems to be that those women just get on with it and don't make it into their identity.

Truthfully, I've leant on my mother more than I really want to, because so few other people have the necessary intelligence for a productive connection. (And my father was too maladjusted himself to stay with, even before he died.)

Anyway, I do achieve many things, but that brings its own problem: Being substantially better seems to repel normies; they only like you if you're marginally better than average (or exceptional at something of trivial real-world importance).

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Another problem boys have these days is not enough support for being artistic, musical, graceful, and beautiful -- because that would imply they're Gay (a word that means Happy!)

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Footnote 1 (on "particularly non-normal or counterintuitive distributions") seems to be missing.

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What mean? I see it on my screen.

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https://imgur.com/a/X8dy9Ca

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On my screen it's missing, along with the horizontal line above it in your picture: https://imgur.com/a/tkIUddK

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how odd. i see it in private and normal window on both mobile and desktop. Can you try private window and another device?

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thank you king 🙏

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