u/DarkBehindTheStars

Misandrists always love throwing the word "systemic" around to describe every problem women face that men supposedly don't, including somehow the notion men being violent to them is a "systemic" issue. Just how? We constantly hear about male violence against women (and girls), but barely ever the other way around. We bring up that there's also a great deal of female violence against men/boys and much of it is underreported due to shame and stigma, as well as fear of being disbelieved or the attacker claiming victimhood and being believed over the injured male, and it's also made worse due to the "real men never hit women no matter what" mentality which even in instances of being attacked still applies. There's countless programs and shelters that only ever acknowledge and help female victims but never male ones and we bring up that there's female violence we always get the usual rebuttals and dismissals. It's so frustrating. Yet we constantly hear the BS about how male violence is an "epidemic" and somehow a "systemic" issue. So somehow it's government policy and law for men to constantly commit acts of violence against women? It's so stupid and especially considering just how legally disadvantaged so many male victims are and how female violence is such an off-limits subject. Even when you have people like Amber Heard or Lindsay Clancy who are clearly guilty, people still rush to defend them and excuse their actions.

I'm beyond delighted and thrilled to see one of my very favorite Dew flavors, LiveWire, is now finally available here in Nevada for the very first time since at least 2015/16. I first found it a few weeks back at a gas/convenience store called Gas 2 Go and earlier also saw it at Rebel. Seems it officially returned here in Nevada and I couldn't be happier. Thanks PepsiCo for bringing LiveWire back to the state of Nevada and please have it be a permanent fixture here. Now to resurrect Typhoon and make it permanent.

The animated spin-off. Pretty amazing to think a very graphic, adult-oriented series like TFTC ended up getting a kid-friendly spin-off and Crypty was being marketed to kids. I've always liked the animated series a lot and being someone who was so deathly terrified of Crypty as a kid, the animated version was obviously so much easier for me to handle and it still gives one a taste of Horror and of the live-action series at a young age. It still very much has that TFTC and EC authenticity to it, and John Kassir returning to voice Crypty definitely added to that. Notable for being one of the very few instances the Vault Keeper and Old Witch appeared outside of the comics, appearing only in Season 2 with a very funny rivalry with Crypty over who gets control of the show. It makes for an enjoyable companion piece to it's live-action big brother and a few of the best episodes could even arguably be on par with the best of the HBO series. There's many episodes I would've liked to have seen get a live-action update for the HBO series, albeit obviously more mature. It's definitely overlooked and deserves much more recognition.

A few of my favorite episodes:

* While The Cat's Away

* Too Cool For School

* The Works... In Wax

* Fare Tonight

* Hyde And Go Shriek

* Nature

* Ghost Ship

* Transylvania Express

* The Haunted Mine

* Waste Not, Haunt Not

* Unpopular Mechanics

* All The Gory Details

* Uncle Harry's Horrible House Of Horrors

* Hunted

* Imaginary Friend

* Drawn And Quartered

* All Booked Up

* It's For You

* Town Gathering

It's interesting to note originally the series was to have the actual puppet introducing and bookending the stories, but the studio execs nixed the idea out of concern it'd be far too scary for kids, which to be fair they were right about. Strangely enough, recycled footage from the HBO series of the live-action Crypty was used when he was briefly the mascot for Kids WB back in the early 2000s, which was mind-blowing.

Whenever it's brought up men/boys are also victims of female violence (which absolutely does happen, no matter how much misandrists always try to downplay or marginalize it), misandrists are quick to accuse you of derailing the conversation and detracting away from the issue of women's safety. These things couldn't be farther from the truth. We just simply want it acknowledged that men/boys can also be and are victims of violence as well, by female attackers as well as male ones, and instances of female-on-male violence are much higher than believed or reported and that male victims still face a lot of hurdles in getting recognition and help. But misandrists as usual always want to make everything into a gendered issue and a competition as to who has it worse. Which is where they also like to employ some of their favorite rebuttals like "But men aren't afraid to be out alone at night like women are," "Why don't you start your own discourse but shut up when women share their experiences," or when they'll claim male on female violence is somehow an "epidemic" and it's counterpart isn't. Which pisses me off so much because male violence unlike it's counterpart is actually called out and condemned whereas female-on-male violence very rarely if ever is and male victims are still ignored and dismissed. Misandrists have the nerve to excuse female violence saying it's usually done in self-defense and women are rarely violent on their own like men are. Which we know is utter nonsense (and eerily similar to arguments used by white supremacists when they always want to vilify non-whites and willfully ignore the existence of terrible white people). Look at all of the defenses Lindsay Clancy is getting despite the vast evidence she's guilty as sin; she was the violent and outright murderous one, but somehow we're told male violence is an "epidemic."

I've said before numerous times I'm mostly very liberal and leftist with my views, but unfortunately the constant dismissal of female violence and failing to acknowledge male victims is a major reason for the Left's poor performance with males in recent years. Constantly shouting down people who want to bring attention to the fact there's also male victims and female violence, and then mitigating female violence by claiming it isn't an "epidemic;" these things badly costed the "Left" during the 2024 elections and especially with male voters. It's also frustrating when we get accused of being misogynists by claiming there's also female violence against men/boys, when that isn't our intention but of course misandrists have warped it as being as such. I hate it. It just feeds into their ploy of causing division between the genders. The irony how misandrists drive more males to the Right and create more misogynistic males.

Posted this on another sub and feel it fits here as well. I saw this asinine, idiotic comment on social media someone claiming that people pointing out there's also female on male assault (which absolutely happens yes, and it's not to take attention away from it's counterpart but to merely also have it acknowledged just as much) that mentioning this is whataboutism and deflecting from male violence, which is supposedly a societal problem while female violence isn't. Ugh. Just how is male violence a "societal problem" when it constantly gets attention and condemnation but female violence rarely if ever does? There's so many abuse shelters that don't even recognize or help male victims of female violence/abuse, male victims are often still counted as being women under the VAWA and it's vastly underreported due to societal stigma and shame. To say nothing even acting in self-defense, men still get demonized and treated as the villains. People claiming male violence is somehow a "societal problem" are no doubt the same misandrist idiots who stand by Amber Heard and Lindsay Clancy, and have every excuse in the book for them and their actions. Ugh.

I've said before numerous times I'm mostly very liberal and left-wing with my views, but it's this kind of thinking that's why the "left" in recent times has done so poorly with male voters. To not only refuse to acknowledge and condemn female on male violence/abuse but then claim male violence is somehow a "societal problem" and fail to condemn the fact there's still female violence. Even if it may not be as high in number, still doesn't change or negate the fact it exists and so many male victims have so little in the way of help or resources. If there wasn't such a societal shame and male victims being reluctant to report, no doubt the numbers would be so much bigger and higher than many realize or want to admit. It's even harder for male victims to come forward with the "believe women" rhetoric which gives female abusers a perfect alibi when they can claim self-defense knowing they'll automatically be believed and sided with and the abused male is still demonized no matter what. The embrace of "believe women" has also been a tremendous detriment for the "left" and as someone again who's mostly very leftist with my views, it truly makes me cringe and shudder.

Without a doubt, one of the biggest societal issues of our time is failing to acknowledge and hold in contempt female violence just as much as male violence and to help male victims as much as female ones. Doing so would do such a world of good for the "left" and males, and to stop with the identity politics and gender pandering nonsense.

Do you feel any of these concepts have a basis in reality? Misandrists often like to cite them as examples of women's hardships and arguing men by comparison don't matter or aren't worth caring about.

• Patriarchy
• Rape Culture
• Systemic/Institutionalized Misogyny
• Female Oppression (systemic or just in general)
• Male Privilege
• Male Dominance
• Gender pay gap
• Systemic violence/abuse against women/femicide (particularly by men)
• Class Ceilings
• Boys Club(s)

I don't doubt in many third-world and underdeveloped nations some of these may well exist and are a serious problem and threat (not that men have it easy there as well). But in Western nations there's very little to no evidence to suggest it and it comes off as more misandrist victimhood and a means of deflecting from issues men face and marginalize them. More of their "women most affected and thus men don't matter" way of thinking. And also to deflect from the fact just like bad men exist, there's bad women too.

Not my intent to spread hate with this. I don't deny or doubt what women go through, and they have their hardships, struggles and uphill battles just like men do. Both are victims of terrible crimes committed by offenders of both genders. But every time misandrists evoke these it comes off as more of their victimhood and trying to invalidate or mitigate male issues. It's equally annoying and infuriating how they try to make it into a contest as to who has it worse and what happens to who more.

Posted this earlier but made a big typo when I submitted it earlier in my topic title and can't edit it, so here it is again. My bad. I was rushing to type before work earlier and seeing the typo I made bugged me. Figured I'd restart this.

Misandrists besides denying misandry exists (which they're so very wrong about) often like to claim it isn't a "systemic" problem like misogyny supposedly is, despite being tremendous evidence it's in fact highly systemic and actually upheld in much of both society as well as government institutions and little evidence for misogyny being systemic in the West (outside of the West could certainly be a very different story). Men still have to register for conscription and face legal blowback if they fail to do so, schools and courts are both infamously misandrist and are why boys do so poorly in schools and men are unfairly treated in courts (especially fathers in family courts). To say nothing of the lack of shelters that recognize or help male abuse/violence victims and how things like domestic violence/abuse, rape, etc. are still largely made out to only be things affecting women/girls (and constantly ignoring and dismissing there's many male victims and female offenders of these as well). There's also the age-old "women and children" narrative which completely de-values male lives (it's worse in recent times how it's now "women and girls," even boys' lives don't matter), and the disproportionately high male suicide and homeless rates. Potentially innocent men/boys who are falsely accused of a wrongdoing by a woman/girl are often denied due process and can lose years or even decades of life in prison for crimes they didn't commit while their accuser(s) walk away scot-free and face no blowback (a problem made even worse now thanks to the "believe women" mantra). There's no doubt other examples of systemic misandry I'm forgetting.

It's bad enough for misandrists to deny misandry being real, but there's something truly sinister when they'll acknowledge it as existing but will massively downplay it with their usual rhetoric. Claiming it isn't systemic or doesn't cause actual harm like misogyny does, when both are completely wrong.

The originals for both, of course. Two influential, seminal 70s Horror film that helped shape the Slasher genre which in turn became one of the most dominant Horror sub-genres and still decades later defines the genre for many. Which of the two do you prefer?

Both are excellent films and comparing them is very much apples and oranges. Halloween is the more classy and elegant of the two, while TCM is far more raw and primal. I enjoy Halloween more overall but can't deny there's a certain raw intensity and visceral power TCM has. Both are scary films in their own different and distinctive ways.

Misandrists besides denying misandry exists (which they're so very wrong about) often like to claim it isn't a "systemic" problem like misogyny supposedly is, despite being tremendous evidence it's in fact highly systemic and actually upheld in much of both society as well as government institutions and little evidence for misogyny being systemic in the West (outside of the West could certainly be a very different story). Men still have to register for conscription and face legal blowback if they fail to do so, schools and courts are both infamously misandrist and are why boys do so poorly in schools and men are unfairly treated in courts (especially fathers in family courts). To say nothing of the lack of shelters that recognize or help male abuse/violence victims and how things like domestic violence/abuse, rape, etc. are still largely made out to only be things affecting women/girls (and constantly ignoring and dismissing there's many male victims and female offenders of these as well). There's also the age-old "women and children" narrative which completely de-values male lives (it's worse in recent times how it's now "women and girls," even boys' lives don't matter), and the disproportionately high male suicide and homeless rates. Potentially innocent men/boys who are falsely accused of a wrongdoing by a woman/girl are often denied due process and can lose years or even decades of life in prison for crimes they didn't commit while their accuser(s) walk away scot-free and face no blowback (a problem made even worse now thanks to the "believe women" mantra). There's no doubt other examples of systemic misandry I'm forgetting.

It's bad enough for misandrists to deny misandry being real, but there's something truly sinister when they'll acknowledge it as existing but will massively downplay it with their usual rhetoric. Claiming it isn't systemic or doesn't cause actual harm like misogyny does, when both are completely wrong.

Misandrists besides denying misandry exists (which they're so very wrong about) often like to claim it isn't a "systemic" problem like misogyny supposedly is, despite being tremendous evidence it's in fact highly systemic and actually upheld in much of both society as well as government institutions and little evidence for misogyny being systemic in the West (outside of the West could certainly be a very different story). Men still have to register for conscription and face legal blowback if they fail to do so, schools and courts are both infamously misandrist and are why boys do so poorly in schools and men are unfairly treated in courts (especially fathers in family courts). To say nothing of the lack of shelters that recognize or help male abuse/violence victims and how things like domestic violence/abuse, rape, etc. are still largely made out to only be things affecting women/girls. There's also the age-old "women and children" narrative which completely de-values male lives (it's worse in recent times how it's now "women and girls," even boys' lives don't matter), and the disproportionately high male suicide and homeless rates. Potentially innocent men/boys who are falsely accused of a wrongdoing by a woman/girl are often denied due process and can lose years or even decades of life in prison for crimes they didn't commit while their accuser(s) walk away scot-free and face no blowback (a problem made even worse now thanks to the "believe women" mantra). There's no doubt other examples of systemic misandry I'm forgetting.

It's bad enough for misandrists to deny misandry being real, but there's something truly sinister when they'll acknowledge it as existing but will massively downplay it with their usual rhetoric. Claiming it isn't systemic or doesn't cause actual harm like misogyny does, when both are completely wrong. Unfortunately the constant denial and downplaying of misandry is another reason in recent times the Left has done so poorly with males and as a mostly very left-leaning person myself, it truly makes me cringe. Acknowledging both the existence and severity of misandry and how it's in fact a very systemic problem would do wonders to improve the Left's standing with males.

Posted this on LWMA and felt it was worth sharing here as well. Saw this in the feed of an actress I follow on Instagram, I saw this post about a women's football team and how important it is to "amplify the voices of women and girls" (ugh, I hate that term, I thought "women and children" was bad enough). I have nothing against womens' football teams and such, but then to take this and use it as a platform to promote the "women and girls" rhetoric and about amplifying their voices; what about the voices of men and boys as well? So many men and boys lack resources to help them with their needs and struggles, and whenever we bring it up we get the usual tired rebuttals ("Then start your own platform but stop silencing women," "Men and boys already have their voices heard," etc.) and it's this kind of rhetoric and casual misandry that's a big reason in recent times the Left is doing more poorly with males. Men/boys constantly ignored and dismissed, and especially big misandrist biases facing them in schools and courts. Why someone would take something like a womens' football team and use it to promote this sort of rhetoric, only furthering divides we already have we don't need more of.

Not sure what's the proper flair for this, the moderators can re-flair it if they see fit. I feel it counts as misandry. Anyway, in the feed of an actress I follow on Instagram, I saw this post about a women's football team and how important it is to "amplify the voices of women and girls" (ugh, I hate that term, I thought "women and children" was bad enough). I have nothing against womens' football teams and such, but then to take this and use it as a platform to promote the "women and girls" rhetoric and about amplifying their voices; what about the voices of men and boys as well? So many men and boys lack resources to help them with their needs and struggles, and whenever we bring it up we get the usual tired rebuttals ("Then start your own platform but stop silencing women," "Men and boys already have their voices heard," etc.) and it's this kind of rhetoric and casual misandry that's a big reason in recent times the Left is doing more poorly with males. Men/boys constantly ignored and dismissed, and especially big misandrist biases facing them in schools and courts. Why someone would take something like a womens' football team and use it to promote this sort of rhetoric, only furthering divides we already have we don't need more of.

Found this comment on Facebook and felt it was worth sharing. I flaired it as progress as I feel it definitely counts as progress when the often overlooked issue of male trafficking victims and female traffickers gets much-needed attention. Worth noting it was a woman who posted it as well, and it's always very uplifting to see women standing up for men/boys just like we do for them. Not to take away attention from the frightening and horrific reality of women/girls being trafficked, but just like general violence and abuse, rape, etc. trafficking isn't a gendered issue and there's many male victims just like female ones, and there's plenty of female traffickers alongside male ones. The numbers may not be as high as the other way around but it doesn't change, negate or mitigate that fact. Male victims deserve recognition, acknowledgment and support just as much as female victims and it's important to recognize and condemn women who are traffickers as well just like men who are.

It's tiresome how everything becomes a gendered issue and a gender war and how misandrists unfortunately more often than not succeed at making it as such. Between that and also how they'll always find ways to excuse and justify when it's a guilty woman or find ways to mitigate it, which is what's happening with Lindsay Clancy, who's just as much of a hateful POS as any man who abuses and kills children.

I saw this rather cringey bit of text when I was at a grocery store earlier and saw this slogan on the back of a cookie bag. I don't take issue with women owning and running businesses and such, but come on, why emphasize something so trivial? I doubt even the average woman cares about businesses that are founded and run by women, just as the average man doesn't care about male-owned businesses. I don't believe being either male or female is a qualification or merit for being a business founder/owner and not something to emphasize. This sort of nonsense is what's caused such division between the genders and another reason more males are being swayed to the Right. I'm very liberal but shake my head at this sort of thing. So to keep things equal, will we also start seeing "Male founded, owned and operated" on things from male-owned businesses? It's so pointless.