Eh, Jim Beam is generally considered cheaper, kinda bottom-shelf stuff these days. Fine for a bourbon and coke, but not really intended to be sipped neat. I wouldn’t really be surprised by a bourbon-lover turning their nose up at it, regardless of who owns the brand.

It’s really really really easy to have this outlook, if you consider a house to be more a thing you live in, and less an investment opportunity.

And if it’s like any other government education program, it will produce solely negative and crappy results and just be weaponized against students and teachers both

This is how I know you’re just being grumpy to be grumpy. This is extreme hyperbole at best. No public education system is perfect, far from it, but to claim every government education system ever has only produced negative results is insane.

Yes, it’s a bad, clickbait headline. That’s why it’s important to read the articles.

I think you’re making some leaps here. Nothing in the article is suggesting that all boys are evil, or that they’re going to be socially isolated. Granted, the article doesn’t exactly give specifics about how it’ll be enacted, but I feel like you’re filling in the gaps with the worst stuff you can imagine, and then getting mad at that.

From my reading of the article, it seems like they’re just adding topics like pornography, deep-fake/image abuse, consent, coercion, peer-pressure, online abuse, etc. to the curriculum, coupled with training for teachers to be able to recognize and address misogynistic behaviors. Again, I’ll grant that the article is missing some important details like how they’re going to teach those various topics, how they’re going to empower teachers to identify problems, the checks and balances they’ll use to prevent teachers abusing the system, what they’re defining as misogyny, etc. But I feel like those details are a little too in-the-weeds for this type of overview article, and until we do know what those details are, I don’t think filling those gaps by assuming the worst is productive.

You’re focusing specifically on porn, but the plan in the article doesn’t. The plan isn’t to tell boys to “just say no” to porn.

You’ll find no disagreements from me that porn isn’t necessarily the root cause of misogyny, but I don’t think anything in the article suggests that.

After reading the article, it seems like there’s a lot more to this than just classes for boys. I struggle to draw the same comparison to 80s abstinence-only sex education, and I think schools can contribute in more ways than the one you listed, like the ones mentioned in the article.

One of the main points of the original movie is that nearly everyone in the town is an asshole because they think Belle is weird. Gaston also thinks Belle is weird. The only difference is he also wants to bang her, and pursues her relentlessly even though Belle makes it very clear she wants nothing to do with him. Gaston is a creep.

If Gaston wanted to confront a noble, he’d do so using his military/political ties. If he wanted to send a bunch of peasants to their deaths, he’d whip up a mob.

An asylum then was probably worse than death. Forward thinking my ass, if Gaston was a good person he would have at bare minimum heard Maurice out and tried to help him.

He liked Belle, when the rest of the town said she was weird for reading.

He thinks she’s weird for reading too, he just thinks she’s pretty enough to make up for that “oddity”

He’s clearly respected throughout the region.

He’s feared because he’s the strongest and has money

The beast (after being cursed for being a dick to strangers in need) did kidnap an old man and then did a prisoner swap for a girl he intended to groom into a sexual partner

Gaston wants to make Belle quit all her reading and tinkering and inventing and turn her into a breeding sow

When the kidnapped man returns to the village and everyone refuses to believe him, Gaston does and leads the charge to rescue his daughter.

He pretends to believe Belle’s dad initially to manufacturer good will, then tries to murder him in the woods in an effort to get rid of the last roadblock keeping him from Belle. Failing that, he uses his “influence” with the town to have Belle’s dad committed to an insane asylum (without any semblance of a trial) when he comes back and accuses Gaston of murder. He doesn’t believe that a beast had kidnapped Belle until he sees the magic mirror.

The fact that Belle was successfully love bombed and groomed doesn’t make Gaston wrong for coming to rescue her from this rich noble that was kidnapping people.

Gaston incited a riot, an honest-to-goodness grab-your-pitchfork-and-torches mob, to retrieve what he viewed as his property. Yes, the beast is a spoiled, bratty, sexual grooming noble, but Gaston is also a massive piece of shit dude.

I don’t have a yard. Now who’s making assumptions, hmmm?

His business breaks down in a matter of a couple of weeks and there’s never enough to become a problem.

Your yard and shoes smell like dog shit, you’re simply nose blind to it. Please clean up after your dog shits.

I think it’s more like all those other things got them closer and closer, and this last thing was the final straw.

I think you’re confusing flatpaks with snaps

It’s literally the brute-force approach to Internet service

If you’re gonna be pedantic, at least have the courtesy to also be correct

“The secret to making friends is to go out and make a bunch of friends!”

Gee, why didn’t I think of that

Is this a fresh new copypasta, or are you just a really long-winded, elaborate troll?

Workshop Companion is great for beginner-friendly woodworking, and I’ve been really liking HomeRenoVision DIY for home renovation content.

That’s funny, when life sucks, I go watch one of Pat Finnerty’s What Makes This Song Stink videos, a direct (and similarly detailed) parody of Beato’s videos

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