Everyone knows the scenario, two kids are fighting or getting into it in some manner or another and then the parent or teacher or principal or whatever breaks them up and one says "he started it" and then the authority figures says "I don't care who started it" I'm sure you've seen it happen in…

Typing this on a phone so sorry for spelling mistakes I am a 17 year old straight boy so i could be very biased/under informed, however i do believe that the stigmatizing nature of being a member of the lgbtq+ community is far worse for a guy than it is for a girl. Don't get me wrong, both receive…

it's been somewhat constantly surprising when I see otherwise normal-seeming people and co-workers who I may have naively assumed were more logical than I thought railing against mandates and masks - calling it a freedoms issue and using everything from abortion to slavery and diversity. I find…

Gonna be straight up and accept this sounds inherently sexist. It probably is. It's my view that a large majority of women have a hard time keeping things private. I come to this conclusion after spending a roughly equal amount of time among men and women, both in the workplace and in private, and…

IMHO when this kind of conflict was allowed, at the very least, people would be open to debate and changing their minds. at least neutrals went back and forth and they were exposed to information they didn't know existed. now, reddit, youtube and the internet generally is primarily composed…

Here is my main example which best illustrates my point: take any publicized incident, a hate crime, a racist action, a robbery by a black man, even the Kyle Rittenhouse case, and you have conservatives saying their side is screwed every time and liberals saying their side is screwed every time. A…

I found it very traumatic as a kid when people (other kids and some adults) got in my business and told me that I was going to hell, just because I didn't (first of all, even know what hell was) accept their savior. It was very confusing at first because it starts in elementary school, an age when…

I should start by explaining I don't have a problem with the concept of HOAs. They are totally valid and if you find yourself living in one, it would be wise to abide by their rules for the sake of your own financial investment in your home/property. The benefits of living in an HOA will be enough…

Trans people are much less common than the gay/bi population, and much more controversial. Is it really an important priority to pursue even if it hurts the overall cause? My answer is no. People seem to get confused since most people assume being trans is the ultimate level of being gay. Most…

Climate crisis? Housing crisis? Wage crisis? Mental health crisis? All these headlines would have you believing that some exceptionally massive impetus for change is surely a headline away. There isn’t going to be a tipping point. The goal posts will keep moving. The world will keep…

I've followed this case fairly extensively since it happened in august of last year. At the time I was fairly outraged by what I saw as the failures of law enforcement to arrest or even detain Rittenhouse on the spot, and I still retain that particular bit of righteous anger. A person should not be…

Personal statement: I have been vaccinated since March. I got vaccinated because I interpreted the risk of getting the virus as more than getting the vaccine. I did experience an adverse side effect in the form of an ugly full torso rash due to the second dose, luckily it only caused me a lot of…

(This is semi-related to COVID as this argument comes up a lot but I’ve also seen this come up in responses to people that question climate change, evolution, etc). I understand the trusting of experts as more of a metric of probability and a crutch for the inevitable fact that most people will…

Before you downvote me, please read my whole post because I have hard statistics from reputable sources to support my argument. Also, for the record, I’m black so please don’t accuse me of being racist. For this argument, I will be comparing the number of police shootings to the number of arrests.…

I don’t mean to sound “fat shamey” at all. I worked as a trainer for years and worked with multiple obese clients to help them regain their mobility, confidence, health, and ultimately their lives back. I love and respect every one of them, I don’t view “being fat” as a moral failing or something…

I recently dated an aromantic who was questioning whether or not they were aromantic. I felt extremely used when they ended things with me and dropped the bomb that they felt they were aromantic since before we started dating. I had already established before that I date to be in a relationship. I…

I’ve had a number of conversations with people who look down on homeless people in general, and these conversations almost always inevitably take the same turn, especially these days with so many hiring signs out - “Why don’t they just get a job like a normal person and stop living on the street” or…

I believe that human beings, while they are able to think in a more abstract, out of the box way, still retain an underlying biological pressure to reproduce, and the root instinctual desire for the act of sex, and the enjoyment that comes from it, is evolutions way of “rewarding” us for…

With the Party’s clear embracement of Qanon, a literal death cult conspiracy theory, anti democratic practices such as voter suppression, the big lie of Trump and the rest of the party, and the attack on human rights such as the limitations on Queer people’s healthcare or opposition to a minimum…

You do not expand by not looking beyond that what you currently know. According to Nietzsche what defines an Übermensch is his quest to always expand his point of view. Way too many people are caught in in psychological trap, which makes them ignorant and dismissive of anything that they perceive as…