When men suffer social isolation, women may pay the price, too

good start subheadline

If men are in trouble, what does that mean for women?

the thinning fabric of many men's social worlds may place added strain on the women in their life

nearly two thirds of young American men report that "no one really knows me well.

More specifically, among couples in a heterosexual relationship, men lean on their romantic partner more than women do

one that suggests men's emotional infrastructure is often built on foundations that women maintain.

we call the labor that women specifically put into helping men with frayed social ties "mankeeping."

fellas is your foid mankeeping you?

addressing the inequality that women face as a result of mankeeping requires challenging rigid masculine norms that leave so many men with impoverished social ties to begin with.

https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1iv1mv7/former_proud_boys_leader_enrique_tarrio_arrested/

Congrats to Mexico voters! 🇲🇽

*MEXICAN PRESIDENT SHEINBAUM SAYS HAD A GOOD CONVERSATION WITH TRUMP

*WILL DEPLOY 10,000 NATIONAL GUARD IMMEIDATLEY TO BORDER TO AVOID TRAFFICKING OF DRUGS TO U.S.

*TARIFFS DELAYED FOR A MONTH https://t.co/qJ4oI08guG

— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) February 3, 2025

Blackface trusted the bean yenta to team up on Donald and he got fricked

She's kinda based for it tbh

What would you do in this situation? pic.twitter.com/hE92qLfURI

— Interesting As Fuck (@interesting_aIl) February 8, 2025

This makes me really sad. So the shark just dies for no reason? 😢

— 🌼 noelle 🌙 (@CrestofFlames8) February 9, 2025

!coomers !2dgooners

https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1ivpkha/vatican_says_pope_francis_is_in_critical_condition/

Reminder that this is part of a porphecy

https://rdrama.net/h/dioceseofrdrama/post/321468/the-prophecymarseyfortunetellerof-st-malachy-pope-francis

Hi! It's now February, and you know what that means - it's time for our annual Donkey Kong December celebration!!!!

Unlike last year (but like the year before!), this time around there are

NEW BADGES

and as you know I am extremely sleep deprived, so I will mostly be just copypasting from this thread here https://rdrama.net/post/156812/diddykongdancediddykongscaredkongmaxxing-event-badges-galore-diddykongscareddiddykongdance

NOTE: Badges appear on profiles in the order they were granted, so I will be paying out in order so as to spell K-O-N-G. So if you're just doing the G (name and stuff), that will be paid out after the event.

SUBMIT A DONKEY-KONG THEMED BANNER TO EARN YOUR K. No low effort, quality control will be exercised. You know the drill by now with how banners work.

Protip: Here is a fantastic Donkey Kong font - https://fontmeme.com/donkey-kong-font/. There are a huge number of Donkey Kong assets out there if you don't feel like creating your own.

Submit here: https://rdrama.net/submit/banners

SUBMIT A DONKEY KONG-THEMED SIDEBAR PIECE TO EARN YOUR O. Requirements: Must incorporate Marsey or another mascot (bardfinn counts if you want). No low effort, quality control will be exercised.

Submit here: https://rdrama.net/submit/sidebar

N

SUBMIT A DONKEY-KONG THEMED MARSEY or DONKEY KONG EMOJI TO EARN YOUR N. Requirements: None for Marseys, you know the drill with those by now. For straight up DK emojis, these need to be transparent background animated assets from the games. No low effort Marseys, quality control will be exercised.

Submit here: https://rdrama.net/submit/emojis

NOTE: Game assets should be submit under the new "Donkey Kong" category. Marseys still go under Marsey.

ROCK A KONG-THEMED NAME (USE "KONG" SOMEWHERE), PFP AND PRONOUNS TO EARN YOUR G. It really is that simple. The G symbolizes that you are a real and true G. Anthems, profile backgrounds, and banners aren't required because I don't have time to check all of that, but it is strongly encouraged. If you're found to have de-konged yourself before the end of the event (TBD at this time), you will LOSE YOUR G.

If you've kongmaxxed your name, leave a comment in this thread - https://rdrama.net/post/338843 - and I will review at end of event and badge those who stayed true to the faith.

BUT WAIT THERE IS MORE

ALL COINS FROM VOTES ARE DOUBLED

THAT'S EIGHT COINS PER THREAD VOTE AND TWO COINS PER COMMENT VOTE

AND ALSO
LOOTBOXES ARE BACK IN THE SHOP

Netflix made a new documentary about Alexander The Great. Within the first 8 minutes, they turned him gay. pic.twitter.com/y56b4eDkjb

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 5, 2024

It’s still unproven speculation and should definitely not be shoved into the first 8 minutes

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 6, 2024

Noo it's not proven that Alexander was bussy blasting hot twinks nooo

Hmm..... next thing they will say, he conquered nothing 🙄

— Jeff G. (@jlgusa) February 5, 2024

You can only conquer shit when you're a super straight alpha male like me

they're playing the long game pic.twitter.com/riSWBZEbSb

— Bruce Wayne (Batman) (@IBetmang) February 5, 2024

It was a very long game, the gayreeks have won, gen Z is gay

First step pic.twitter.com/FCN8sqz8Cf

— HENRY 🇳🇬🇷🇺 (@hadean_holocene) February 16, 2024

Chuds (black) are suddenly upset when a euro country embraces it's traditions

2,347 years after his death and they want him to be a "Gay Hero" lol

— AF America (@MagaTalkDaily) February 5, 2024

No one can escape the liberal gayinization

https://x.com/Twitermytweet/status/1754623627377447164

I don't think a guy who conquered whole countries cared too much to keep his enemies' kids alive

Who had Alexander the great is gay on Their bingo card?

— Michelle LA🇨🇦 (@MichelleLA1981) February 6, 2024

Everyone with half a brain cell you r-slur

Thank you!!! Couldnt watch after that.

Nobody argues that there was no sodomy but why do they have to film romantic sunlit moments of hair stroking and talking about feelings?

— Crypto Peepee (@tal_farlow) February 6, 2024

Because gayreeks were sappy kid of strags

Yeah, I'm glad they didn't race swap this one. 🤣🤣🤣

— BrandNewDay (@MakeThoseAngry) February 7, 2024

I know, they could have made him monkeydonian

Turned it off at that moment. It's basically unfounded speculation by leftist academics that he was homosexual or even bisexual. They might as well have cast a black or Asian actor in the role as that would've had as much historical basis.

— Vin Tanner (@VinTanner417682) February 10, 2024

Alexander was the only greek in Greece who didn't frick other men, that's why he was the Great

Make it gay and lame!

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) February 5, 2024

Who else will Netflix turn gay next? Achilles? Is no one safe?

!jannies chud post

Link to Reddit Post

In the dead of winter, on a day with -27°C wind chill, in FiveFinger shoes (my toes are still cold), on icy trails, in a state that hates anything other than cars, on a dead ebike (25kg), and with no additional planning than "I should bring a rope today," I was able to transport a full 4'x8' sheet of plywood from the hardware store to my home for model railroading without any issues at all. If I could do it under these conditions, then anybody could do it under nearly any conditions.

AstroG4 had a problem: He loves trains, but he just doesn't have quite enough wood. Now a normal person would look at the weather, then hop in their GMC Yukon XL Denali and run over fifty children on their way to pick up plywood.

AstroG4's too eco-conscience for that. Instead, he strapped on his goddarn FiveFingers shoes with the individual toes, mounted his glorified Huffy, and braved the subzero temperatures on a non-functioning eBike to prove to the rest of us that you CAN, in fact, transport one full sheet of plywood on a walmart-tier Trek bicycle.

You may be asking yourself "how is that a full 4x8 sheet when it's clearly cut into 4x2 sections?"

Three splices, actually, but perfectly sound logic. I could grind a piece of plywood into sawdust, dump it into a backpack, carry it onto a plane, then reglue it back into a 4x8 sheet and claim I was able to carry-on a sheet of plywood.

But honestly, that's not the reason I'm posting this. Much like the /r/malelivingspaces threads that Carp would post (please do more, they're fun), I want everyone to look at his model trainery.

The more you look, the more you see.

• Pieces extending beyond necessary length

• Jigsawed paths for curved tracks

• Everything is made of scrap remnants you'd normally toss or burn

• Drywall screws everywhere

• Scrap pieces used as spliceblocks, seemingly using tie-wire to hold them to the main track curve

• Thin tinmetal braces held on by a single screw, no washer, in no way actually bracing the legs

• The table-thing in the foreground (lower right corner) has a short leg, being extended with a single carriage bolt

• Handwriting looks like a fat neurodivergent, using the cheapest tan masking tape he could find.

• A single laser-cut cupholder, clearly not his own work

I'm still baffled by how he can be so terrible at woodworking on the right half of the picture, but appears to have functional drawer slides and flush-mounted buttons on the left half.

And since this is Reddit, you guessed it: he's nonbinary and posts in femboymemes link

thanks and godbless !friendsofxirabolt

Here we spot wild Bardfinn Bluesky activities.

Be valid and ping ! bardfinn for something worthwhile or create a new thread.

I do wish there was a way to be a girl without transitioning because trans shit is gay and cringe but I was so obsidianlug so posed to be a woman

pic.twitter.com/g6fCxhxGvw

— Your Typical Local Man (@LocalBateman) February 15, 2025

My DMs are open

!nonchuds unlimited calories = unlimited chudcel weightmogging

I had totally forgotten that the Dear Colleague letter was that early, holy frick

'Some sources suggested that the reluctance to push ahead with broader [gender change] reform was down to a desire to protect relations with the United States.' So Trump succeeded where a multitude of British women, including lifelong leftists, failed. 1/4https://t.co/V4oUQbCvhg

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) February 9, 2025

However, in spite of the puberty blockers ban, 'separate moves for a transgender-inclusive ban on “conversion therapy” are understood to be going ahead.' This means therapists will be banned from fully exploring why a child wants to transition. 2/4https://t.co/V4oUQbD36O

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) February 9, 2025

We know that children who are neurodivergent, same-s*x attracted and those who've experienced sexual abuse are overrepresented at gender clinics. We also know, from multiple studies, that the vast majority of children grow out of gender dysphoria if allowed to go through puberty. 3/4

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) February 10, 2025

Therapists and gay activists have begged Labour to realise that the affirmation-only model could cause serious, irreparable harm to minors, to no effect. I suppose we have to hope Trump says it soon. Then, maybe, they'll listen. 4/X

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) February 10, 2025

OI GUVNAH YEW GO' A LOICENSE F'DAT DEYUH POIN'Y KNOIFE COR BLOIMEY INNIT?

A Hollywood actor who glamorizes psychotic murderers on death row as the good guys told England to ban pointy knives

!burgers point and laugh at the !britbongs

He's stepping down due to Ted Tso comparing maintainers to here: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/

I honestly don't really have a QRD other than another maintainer stepped down due to what he saw was a slight by the Linux maintainers . Funny thing is the guy who set him off (Ted Tso) is the guy who caused the rust filesystem maintainer to step down as well due to a very public grilling lmao: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Linux-Maintainer-Step-Down.