Perhaps the cure to male loneliness is men stepping up for men. As a former lost boy myself, I certainly would have appreciated it.
Now I mentor the shit out of juniors in my professional life.
“Dad, how do I” for those wondering.
I haven’t looked it up so idk the content but there’s also a “Mom, how do I”
The real MVP
The unfortunate reality is men like him are totally casted aside in favor of predators who’d rather take advantage of them, like Trump, Andrew Tate, or the rest of the Epstein class and aspiring Epstein class.
Capitalism favors the morally bankrupt dark triad personality types, and we’re living to see that on full display. I greatly fear for what young Gen Alpha and Gen Beta will become, growing up in a world ruled by and glorifying such evil men.
It’s because a good con man focuses on saying what people want to hear whenever possible. Makes them easy to manipulate.
Someone who actually wants to help you will tell you things that are hard to hear. Inconvenient truths. Sometimes we are not ready to hear them or accept them, and that’s where the struggle is. It’s the same as the concept of tough love in parenting (which for the record does not mean beating your children).
It’s like Mr.Rodgers said. Look for the helpers.
For whatever reason, my parents never explicitly taught me how to floss. Now that my mother is elderly and needs help, I had the opportunity to observe her floss, and she did the most bizarre thing.
Rather than cut off a long length of floss before flossing, she held the container of floss in one hand and then flossed using only the little bit of floss needed at the time, kept pulling it out as she needed more, and then cut off the floss after flossing.
I couldn’t decide if she was crazy or a genius, so I tried it myself. I still ended up using about the same amount of floss, but I think her method would be superior in the case where the floss broke during flossing. Otherwise, it’s more of a hassle, so I don’t do it. But I think if I was just used to flossing that way, it would have no downsides.
When I turned 35 years old, I worked up enough courage to ask my dentist how to floss
I only looked it up on the internet after observing my mother.
I admit that I wasn’t exactly doing it perfectly, but I had gotten close from observing how the hygienist flossed me during my cleanings.
it’s a noble cause, 100%.
but no one should be encouraging anyone to blow $18 on bullshit gillette, or whatever, refillable shaving cartriges. actually it was $18 the last time i bought a 5-pack, that was in the 90s. i don’t even want to know how much they cost now.
do yourself a solid and switch to safety razors. i got a handle ~9 years ago for like 10 bucks, and spent maybe $30 on 300 blades. actually 600, since they’re double sided. granted, i shave every other day, and never on weekends or during winter, but one blade will last about 3-4 weeks
please take the “you need 5 blades on your razor…unless you’re not a REAL man” propaganda and throw it out the window
Seconded. I bought a Merkur handle, 25 blades and some soap about 15-18 years ago. Since then I’ve bought maybe 3 more soaps and a pack of 100 more blades. I probably get through moisturizer faster than I get through any of my other shaving stuff.
Shaving is basically free if you use a safety razor. It makes me wonder what other basic necessities stolen by capitalism are actually easily reclaimed.
shaving cream. you think it’s necessary because you use it every time, and if you were to not use it all of a sudden, your face would be shredded
that’s what every “skin care” product does–some immediate effect (“cooling!” “moisturizing!” “fortifying!” etc.) followed by your skin saying “ok, i don’t need to produce oils or any other thing that i’ve been doing for millions of years, because i’m already slathered with it.”
so you use skin lotion = after it evaporates, your skin is dryer than it would have been had you not used any lotion. i know sooooo many people who can’t stop complaining about their dry skin even though they basically drench themselves in lotion all day. that’s by design, to sell you lotion you never actually needed
There are some recommended by dermatologists like lac hydrin. I have chronic dry skin and whenever I actually decide to use it my skin gets noticeably better even when I’m barely using it.
Amen, I grabbed a Henson razor handle that presets the blade angle and depth. It’s more expensive than a normal safety razor handle, but my hands aren’t steady enough to use a normal handle. Either way it takes normal razor blades. I got 200 Feather blades for $50 a couple of years ago and I’m not even halfway through.
All that being said I keep a Harry’s handle and cartridges in my travel bag because it’s just easier to get through TSA
IDK, I use a cheap razor for months as I’m very light haired so…
Also, baby steps!
My dad didn’t teach me anything like this. He did, though, hand me down used items like an electric razor because he got a new one. He was a giant prick, but I don’t think he was trying to be a shit dad, he just was! (And I’m gobsmacked how people do stuff like this without realising their consequences to other people). I now get to be the opposite now I’m a dad with a son.
Goddamn right.
Don’t pass on the family curse, be the cure to what causes it.
A good person does what they can to spread goodness in the world, not because they expect or desire a reward, but because it is right.
How is this “proof?”
I mean, I agree you should try to be the better person, but given the choice between being better and not being better, one person choosing to be better doesn’t prove anything–even if they do have a YouTube channel.
The channel is “Dad, how do I?” and I assume the proof is that he has 5.5 million subscribers and is one of the most beloved creators on the platform
But there’s larger channels with more success from creators who are pieces of shit.
It’s nitpicky, and it doesn’t matter in the slightest, but they’re right, the phrasing is a bit much
I’m familiar with the channel. The POTUS is Donald Trump. Does that prove anything?
This channel has 1/86th the size of Mr. Beast, 1/4 the size of MKBHD and Veritasium, 1/3 the size of Fox News. Hell, it’s not even as large as TYT. Does that prove anything?
While you are technically correct, I think you are perhaps concentrating on the wrong aspect of the information being shared here.
