Trekman10

Why are strangers under any obligation to validate each other?

I know you're joking, but I don't get people who unironically think like this. Like whats preventing a woman from eating lots of meat and losing money on sports betting? Like what physical barrier prevents them from doing that? None.

So how could that define manhood?

Just waiting for the day when someone can explain to me what makes a man a man without describing skills, qualities, and actions that anyone can do regardless of gender.

And don't tell me it's "have a penis", because if that were true then effeminate men wouldn't be insulted all the time for not being "real" men, and there wouldn't be toxic masculinity.

Empowerment is when people make themselves subservient around you? If you need everyone around you do defer to your ego that's not empowerment.

Yeah because no one ever picks an online username that doesn't perfectly represent their irl personality 1:1

You have no idea how this person behaves offline, you're just reacting to their username

I think a lot of the attitude I saw on mastodon about this like a year ago was one of suspicion that they wanted an open network but didn't use the fediverse standard

depending on jurisdiction they can't just arbitrarily raise rates

Horrifying