The simplist answer is that this guy could buy some high-coverage foundation and a make-up sponge. He could change his appearance in other ways too if he likes - get a wig, fake nose, etc.

This matches every account I’ve heard from friends in Seattle that have worked for the HQ.

I think we may be (re)-discovering the appeal of monotheistic religions, and why they hew patriarchal.

On average, men desperately need more mental health resources. But, on average, they are not comfortable building that with other men, and it often isn’t appropriate or effective to lean on their female significant other (if a straight man).

So - enter the primary description of ‘God’. Can listen any time but will always forgive, is super masculine but won’t emasculate you, and has never told another soul what you are thinking.

AI is always available and is unlikely to emasculate anyone, but that third item… Well, we’ll see where this goes.

Getting average people to the point that they are ready to do something like a general strike is a process.

Most people don’t even want to have to go to a protest.

But going to a protests is like anteing up in poker – it is mentally anchoring people as in the game and publicly taking a side.

And yeah - the fucks in power are going to say “bet”.

So now millions of people who are not where we already are, who have not wrestles with this and avoided it as long as they can - they are starting to ask, “ok, what do we actually have to risk to change this? What am I willing to do?”

Will we get enough people actually engaged enough for a general strike? I have no idea.

But I know it won’t happen without giving people a ramp-up that includes things like the protest this weekend.

I’m guessing your Mom is now on ‘team Bear’.

I would consider that your Mom is the problem here except that the dudes lumped you in with being burned alive, and that suggests they are the PoS.

I’ve seen my coworkers take paternity leave, which I think is like 8 weeks where I work.

Generally, they’ve staggered it with their spouse so that one parent is working and the other on child care, rather than both being out over the same window. Typically the Dad’s have taken their leave a couple months after the baby is born when Mom is returning to work. It keeps the baby out of daycare for as long as possible.