Well, to be fair it happens in Canada, in the UK, even in China (in that in all three you get news stories of cops doing just that). But it seems to never happen in the USA (if we’re to judge by reportage).

For one side of the fence it’s probably 梁朝伟 (Tony Leung) and for the other side it’s probably 张曼玉 (Maggie Cheung). I fell in love with both in the movie In the Mood for Love and its follow-up-in-spirit 2046. And Maggie was killer funny playing herself in Irma Vep.

We need a second +1 (or maybe a +10) button for answers like this.

Cops talk down a person in a mental health crisis instead of shooting them.

We’re heading into hot season, so right now undies and a ratty tee.

No. I would not wear these outside.

Π (Pi) males: covered in a crust and baked. Smoke a lot of weed.

Ν (Nu) males: an alpha male with added rap.

Ξ (Xi) males: look like Winnie the Pooh.

Indeed.

You’re making zero sense now. Perhaps if you communicated in, you know, sentences instead of single words, you’ll make more sense.

Before you fuck up even more, there are three flags there.

One is my nation of birth. One is my nation of citizenship. One is my nation of residence.

Which one of these bugs you and makes you babble in non sequiturs and single-word responses?

I’m failing to see the link between “personality type” and the PRC.

Would you care to explain?

In that capacity, yes, I like personality types. Anybody who spouts any of the self-identification personality types (whether astrology, blood type, MBTI, graphological type, etc.) is someone who is not a serious person and can safely have their opinions on almost any topic dismissed without further regard.

What I hate about them is what they represent: the absence, after all this time, of any kind of human intellect.

“Personality types” are all bullshit and all bad for humanity in general.

Yes. All of them. No exceptions. There’s nothing special about the manosphere personality types beyond them being made up by some seriously icky people.

You’re falling for the trap in this “sigma male” crap that astrologers and other charlatans have laid out thousands of years ago: a vaguely formless definition that is mostly-flattering but doesn’t actually nail down anything concrete nor provide any form of predictive validity. If you gave that hand-wavy definition to a hundred people selected at random, pitching it as a custom “personality profile” made by “careful psychological evaluation”, well over half the people would be amazed at how clearly you “read them”.

Despite it being just a few sentences of glurge designed to make you feel good about yourself.

It’s nonsense. It has zero validity at any level. (As does, in fact, the whole notion of a “personality type”.) Saying “I’m a sigma male” is about as credible and nonsensical as saying “I’m a Taurus” or “I’m a Chicken” or “I have type A- blood” or “I’m an ENTP” or “I’m high in Openness and low in Neuroticism” or “I’m a Type 8, the Challenger” or “I’m an Expressive” or “I’m a Type D personality” or “I have a ‘dominant’ personality stroke” or “I’m an ESE” or “I’m a Sunshine Yellow”.

And yes, each one of those is a real “personality type” from some tradition or another, and each of these has millions or more who believe it applies to them perfectly, despite some of them going as low as only four types. The world is full of this kind of foolishness, and it’s all gibberish and nonsense.

If you want a better, more scholarly take-down of all this “personality type” stupidity, look no further than Bertrand Forer who in 1948 already had the entire field tossed into the garbage can with a single, very simple experiment. The fact that post-Forer we still invent these nonsensical categories is just more evidence that human beings are too stupid to have nice things ever.

No, astrology for sociopaths is MBTI. Not the practitioners, mind. The people who use it for hiring decisions.

That sounded so INFJ! 🤭

Given the source of the term (manosphere) there’s a strong relationship I think.

ahem

<setup>What’s a “ligma”?</setup>

It’s a lovely term for brodudes who’ve milked the “alpha male” term to the point that it’s a punchline to continue to grift people into giving them money.

Yeah, I had to go feeling around under the couch to find my eyes after rolling them so hard they popped out of my head.