The PC and Perpetually Offended Brigade

[Ollkiller]

Hardly a revelation but it's surprising how irrelevant much of this "noise" becomes if you abstain from social media. Think it was about a year ago when I decided to deactivate some of my accounts. I've no doubt my sanity has benefitted as a result. As has been already said, the majority of sensible people don't buy into most of this bullshit but social media gives you such a skewed perspective on things that this doesn't seem to be the case.

Yup. That's it in a nutshell.

[astfgyl]

Yeah it's true that. If I just go about my business IRL I don't really encounter any of this lark. And tbh I don't give a fuck about 99 percent of it. I mean get your pipe cut off all you want really because I'm far more concerned by the likes of the electric bill and the price of food than whether someone wants to do that lark and best of luck if it helps with their mental illness and whatnot but I have to draw the line at saying it's grand for some fucking weirdo to have a baby sucking a man's nipples for his synthetic milk induced by a cocktail of drugs with fuck all nutrition. That's where all this goes too far I think.

Again I suppose how many grains of sand make up a pile of sand and there's a boundary there even though no-one knows what it is.

Saying all that I've yet to meet a man who got a baby to suck his nipples so it is certainly amplified by social media far beyond its prevalence in reality. Goes for many many things and I should also be voting with my feet and pressing the "not interested in this" button instead of annoying myself because at the end of the day as I was saying up above, I'm becoming the very brigade this thread is about, just at the other end of the scale.

Still reckon no-one will come on here and defend that nipple sucking though

[Eoin McLove]

Well let's not be too hasty. Did he have sexy nipples?

[Carnage]

My ears and nipples are burning.

[astfgyl]

Well let's not be too hasty. Did he have sexy nipples?

Hard to tell from the pic.

[open face surgery]

Jesus fuckin christ. Glad he got cancer.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Breath of fresh air from way back in 2007 here. Was woke still just "political correctness" then? Well, whatever it was, the trans "debate" hadn't been rolled into it yet, and so an article like this--looking at male lactation simply as an empirical, documented, rare but quite well-understood phenomenon, and not primarily as a stance in a political engagement--was still the most normal and expected way for the subject to be treated:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-males-can-lactate/

[Bürggermeister]

Christians, I ask thee, if god did not want us to squirt milk, why give us nipples?

[Eoin McLove]

Blessed are the cheese makers.

[astfgyl]

Breath of fresh air from way back in 2007 here. Was woke still just "political correctness" then? Well, whatever it was, the trans "debate" hadn't been rolled into it yet, and so an article like this--looking at male lactation simply as an empirical, documented, rare but quite well-understood phenomenon, and not primarily as a stance in a political engagement--was still the most normal and expected way for the subject to be treated:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-males-can-lactate/

https://www.babycenter.com/baby/breastfeeding/can-men-breastfeed_8824

I was waiting for you to come out in support.

There's the link from my original post. This is not how that happened in this case either. This case was chemically induced, which you might like to try checking out some details on before defending it because it's not a great hill to make a stand on.

[astfgyl]

Before we go on, there's also a picture of the same person knocking around with nipple clamps on, pulling the chain. Careful what you're defending.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

In support? Defending? I went to pains to lay out the possibility of talking about male lactation, whatever the cause may be (though all causes appear to boil down to increased prolactin production), as merely an empirical fact of nature. You can do whatever you want with the content of the article which talks about it in just that way, without taking any kind of political stance. And if you feel obliged to have a political opinion on some randomer ITV decided to put on the news, you can use the refreshingly neutral "pre-woke" content of the article to nuance that opinion. Or not. It's up to you how political versus empirical you want to be in your opinions on *checks notes again* male lactation. Prior to discovering this story 100% exclusively "thanks" to you sharing it here, I never felt I needed to have a political opinion on male lactation. And I still don't.

[Bürggermeister]

Yeah, you're milking it now, astfgyl 

[open face surgery]

https://www.angrymetalguy.com/voidmilker-labyrinthical-review/

This just popped up on my feed. Appropriate band name.

[astfgyl]

In support? Defending? I went to pains to lay out the possibility of talking about male lactation, whatever the cause may be (though all causes appear to boil down to increased prolactin production), as merely an empirical fact of nature. You can do whatever you want with the content of the article which talks about it in just that way, without taking any kind of political stance. And if you feel obliged to have a political opinion on some randomer ITV decided to put on the news, you can use the refreshingly neutral "pre-woke" content of the article to nuance that opinion. Or not. It's up to you how political versus empirical you want to be in your opinions on *checks notes again* male lactation. Prior to discovering this story 100% exclusively "thanks" to you sharing it here, I never felt I needed to have a political opinion on male lactation. And I still don't.

You do realise I already had a link up about male lactation and that link was in no way politically bent? You might have missed that in your eagerness to point out something I'd already pointed out. Did you by any chance read the link I posted before attempting to educate me on it?

You're saying you don't have a political opinion on males lactating? Well neither do I on them lactating in itself they can lactate to their heart's content.

Breastfeeding is freaky. Not the sucking bit. You're reading The Stranger, so odds are you've had a titty sucked at some point in your life. No, it's because when my baby attached to my breast, there was an incredible chemical cascade that ran through my entire body like lightning. Imagine the most electric thing a partner has ever done to you, then multiply it by 10. I could feel my brain rewiring, creating pathways that would permanently connect me to my child. (And yeah, I kind of got off on it. Don't judge.)