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It’s hard to nail down. I think legal experts concur that family courts have gotten more equitable over the years, but that’s due primarily to old-fashioned judges retiring and even lawyers willing to hear out single dads who want to be a part of their children’s lives rather than just saying “don’t bother fighting”.

You keep re-explaining and re-framing the stereotype, but cannot actually demonstrate its effect.

False equivalence. The wage gap is of measurable harm. Demonstrate the harm of cream cheese advertisements in single father custody arrangements.

Family court is VASTLY more equitable than MRA bullshit might have people believe- especially in the last 20 years. The disparity between custody arrangements is far too often explained by the fact that Men, statistically, seek less custody, or are more likely to be unstable, physically abusive addicts.

Rent for a small apartment is...what, $1k / month?

Yes, it is a stereotype. No, it is not harmful.

Yeah, 150 is seriously not fuck-you money. It’s absolutely not charter dozens of private planes every year money. (of course, the individuals in question are gazillionaires, so it’s a pretty dumb take, Chris- maybe he knew it, and was being disingenuous to make a point that none of these guys needed to bum a ride on

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They should really, really just have a big shoot-out over all of this. I mean that’s how they settle things, right?

And that’s just how they view themselves! That’s the best case scenario! Stultifying.

But in the cosmos there is balm as well as bitterness, and that balm is nepenthe.

Exactly. Not to mention Asian, Arab, Somali, etc. immigrants (not necessarily a huge population, but still); a reliably conservative voter base, due to small business sense, religious beliefs, honour culture, etc. who just can’t find themselves voting for the Republicans because of all the fucking racism. Because of

Just last week I fucked around and got a triple-double.

Not to mention that, suicide being an overwhelmingly impulsive act, rates of “success” are vastly higher with easy access to firearms.