Men Are Violent
Mar. 11th, 2026 10:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
disappointed_lesbianDoing much better with today's midday snack: slightly more than half a serving of soy protein powder, half a small banana, three peach slices and a bit of fruit juice from the can of peaches, a few tablespoons of applesauce, what I fear was more than half a tablespoon of peanut butter, and like three fifths of a hash brown for the headache that was building. No headache now, and I'm just over half an hour from dinner, although I may try to push dinner later.
The good thing about being close to goal weight is that I don't have to undereat much, so I never really feel hungry. I feel after some meals that I would like a few more bites, but that feeling is easy to ignore and then forget about.
I slept more last night, but it was still much less than I usually sleep. Maybe I need to take the progesterone at bedtime like the bottle says. Why in the hell menopause comes with insomnia, I cannot imagine. Nature is senselessly cruel. But maybe this is just a civilized menopause. I'd like to know what menopause is like outside of civ.
Anti-death-penalty activists kind of get on my nerves. Of all the fine causes they could agitate for, they put their energy into keeping the most violent prisoners alive. What possesses them to care about murderers more than they care about abused children or pollution I don't know, but I don't think their priorities are in order.
And I'm so goddamned tired of activism for saving men from the consequences of their own horrific behavior. Most of the people on death row anywhere are men because men commit the worst crimes and the most crimes. Anti-death-penalty activism is effectively just more activism for excessive male freedom, just like pro-gun rights activism is effectively activism for excessive male freedom. Most of the people interested in owning guns are men because men are violent. Gun rights are effectively rights to indulge their love of violence.
There is a reasonable argument that can be made about self-defense, but from whom do people need to defend themselves? From men. Men created the problem, men created a violent solution that poses new problems. Men ruin everything for everyone.
I'm off my original topic of the death penalty, but the conclusion here is that men simply should never have power over anyone. They can never be trusted; even the death penalty doesn't deter enough of them. The men given power to control crime become criminals themselves: the police are violent, prison guards are violent, all mostly men.
The world will never be pleasant until men are divested of power, including access to weapons.
The good thing about being close to goal weight is that I don't have to undereat much, so I never really feel hungry. I feel after some meals that I would like a few more bites, but that feeling is easy to ignore and then forget about.
I slept more last night, but it was still much less than I usually sleep. Maybe I need to take the progesterone at bedtime like the bottle says. Why in the hell menopause comes with insomnia, I cannot imagine. Nature is senselessly cruel. But maybe this is just a civilized menopause. I'd like to know what menopause is like outside of civ.
Anti-death-penalty activists kind of get on my nerves. Of all the fine causes they could agitate for, they put their energy into keeping the most violent prisoners alive. What possesses them to care about murderers more than they care about abused children or pollution I don't know, but I don't think their priorities are in order.
And I'm so goddamned tired of activism for saving men from the consequences of their own horrific behavior. Most of the people on death row anywhere are men because men commit the worst crimes and the most crimes. Anti-death-penalty activism is effectively just more activism for excessive male freedom, just like pro-gun rights activism is effectively activism for excessive male freedom. Most of the people interested in owning guns are men because men are violent. Gun rights are effectively rights to indulge their love of violence.
There is a reasonable argument that can be made about self-defense, but from whom do people need to defend themselves? From men. Men created the problem, men created a violent solution that poses new problems. Men ruin everything for everyone.
I'm off my original topic of the death penalty, but the conclusion here is that men simply should never have power over anyone. They can never be trusted; even the death penalty doesn't deter enough of them. The men given power to control crime become criminals themselves: the police are violent, prison guards are violent, all mostly men.
The world will never be pleasant until men are divested of power, including access to weapons.
