It's weird how some forms of humor involve humiliating others.
The ambiguity between good humor and bad humor confuses me.

I'm reading this book called 'What Women Want' by Daniel Bergner, basically a review of women's sexuality, with word from sexologists and sexual anecdotes from various women. In it there's a chapter which seeks to explain why women tend to show a certain appreciation for other women, in a way that men don't with other men:

Meana was a psychology professor at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas,and just before I flew out to meet her, she said that we should start by going together to a Cirque du Soleil show at one of the casinos. So, soon after my plane landed, we sat in a darkened U-shaped theater and began our conversation while a pair of topless, dark-haired women in G-strings dove backward into a giant water-filled champagne glass on stage. The women plunged in from opposite sides of the pool, swam toward each other, and entangled with each other, eel-like. They slid up the walls, arching their spines and dragging their
breasts along the glass."

Next, a wispy blonde came skipping like a schoolgirl out on stage. Wearing a tiny pleated skirt, she swirled her hips and kept a set of hula hoops spinning around her waist. Suddenly a cable snatched her up above the audience, hoisting her high. It was her act’s climactic moment, a symbolic ravishing. The nymphet opened her legs wide above our eyes, splitting them wider than seemed humanly possible; the splitting was almost violent.

Then a sinewy black woman wearing only beads thrust and pumped her gleaming body to a tribal beat. The soft-porn performances followed each other in fast succession, the stage dominated by arresting women.
The audience was divided equally between the sexes."

Finally the platinum-wigged MC cried out,
“Where’s the beef?” and a long-haired man in a cowboy’s vest and chaps
climbed through a trap door. He strutted and swiveled and bared his abdominal ladder of muscle. He shed the chaps, kept only his groin covered, and stood in his cowboy boots, flexing his ass. Yet even as male nudity had its minutes, a dozen female bodies surrounded him.
In her early fifties, Meana, wearing a shirtdress and tights that evening and wearing her bronze-colored hair in bangs, didn’t doubt the usual explanations for the fact that women far outnumbered men among the performers, though she didn’t believe they were terribly illuminating. Those explanations went like this:The men in the audience would have been made too uneasy by more male nudity on stage. For them—for the heterosexuals among them, anyway—the cowboy needed to be obscured by breasts. And for the women in the crowd, the female nakedness fed an addiction—judging their own looks against iconic beauty. So the ticket buyers were gratified, given a live version of what they were used to from a million images on billboards, in magazines, on television: for the men, an opportunity to lust; for the women, a chance to compare."

Meana saw more in the imbalance on stage. She began simply, with
something that fit with what Chivers had found through her plethysmograph (female arousal monitors), as the flaccid Adonis tossed stones on the beach. “The female body looks the same whether aroused or not. The male without an erection,” Meana said, “is announcing a lack of arousal. The female body always holds the promise, the suggestion, of sex.” The suggestion sent a charge through both genders."

And then, the imbalance served women in a further way, an essential way—a way that formed the crux of Meana’s thinking. To be desired was at the heart of women’s desiring. Narcissism, she stressed—and she used the word not in damning judgment but in plain description—was at the core of women’s sexual psyches. The females in the audience gazed, erotically excited, at the women on stage, imagining that their own bodies were as searingly wanted as those in front of them"

What do you complete the sentence with?

predominantly at an office job. ( ´ω`)

While I first planned to maek a book thread...
I decided to change teh topic to solitude.


Stranger in teh woods by Michael Finkel

It's been awhile since I read it - but it's a book that is rather fascinating. How a man decide to just leave everything behind and simply venture out to teh woods. With out any real reason or preparation. He stayed there for 27 years before teh police caught him. During these years he lived mostly on food he got from breaking in to others summer camps that was "close enough" to him. No one manage to find him or take notice of his camp.

It is based on a real life story. He since then told some of his story and how he sort of lost sense of ones thoughts. To just live in the moment unconsciously. I think this sounds freeing. Some would might call - crazy. I am half crazy so I don't mind! My current life exist at this glowing box. I am very fond of it. I love it. But... everything is an escape. So was his experience into teh woods.

Books as this make me realize that we are always sort of alone with our own experience with life. We can share thoughts with others by talking or writing - but we can never experience what someone else experience. I love my solitude more than anything else. Only alone I feel at ease and see my thoughts clearly. I am kind of jealous of people who dares to just leave all behind.

In a way - hikikomori are in some regards - already living away from society. While teh difference being that they often are connected to the outside world thought teh wired or by family members. I used to be a home security guard so i've my own understanding of this. There is no real struggle besides having family members pushing on their feelings onto me. While my shift only lasted for 2years~. I could imagine longer shift means teh struggle to change gear gets harder for each passing day. While in teh woods - there is non to affect your state of mind. It's either struggle or die. I already struggle - but my struggle are mostly with other people.

Interview with author about "teh last hermit".
https://youtu.be/Bk9w7bc00Uk

Has anyone else dreams such as this?
Has anyone else deep desire of solitude?


well then,
I will add this.

What do you like about imageboards?

For me it's like having friends without having to deal with having friends.

Not vouching for the video, just sharing.

https://www.vidlii.com/watch?v=C2gseeAmrCN

it's like the atmosphere completely changed

[ 4 /\/ j 0 |_| |) 3 [ 0 |) 3 |) 1 5 1 3 3 7 |* # |2 4 5 3 ?

How much would you pay to access to a premium anonymous forum?

This forum would have
- A required reading list for all newcomers
- No low effort posting
- At least one new thread a day commenting

Would it be successful?
I think a lot of people crave high quality discourse, but don't know where to find it.

I know some of you guys are old around here so I think this is a reasonable question. I wasn't around back then but I encountered this passage in a book I'm reading that made me LOL:

"I was around fourteen or fifteen-- so this was around 1993 or 1994-- and I was on the top deck of the 340 bus in London, coming home from school. A man in a suit was talking loudly into an object that in my memory is the size of a small cow. He seemed to be enjoying us looking, and he talked louder.

This continued for some time, until another passenger said to him:

'Mate?'
'Yes?'
'You're a wanker.'

And the people on the bus broke the first rule of public transport in London. We looked at each other, and we smiled. These small rebellions were happening all over London, I recall, at the birth of mobile phones. We saw them as an absurd invasion."