Weโve completely lost the ability to say โyeah enoughs enough.โ If someone has enough money they can say I invented the rape machine that rapes you. And everyone has to go โah well. Rape machines coming in a couple years better get used to itโ
A musician can make music by whistling or slapping a bucket in a rhythm.
A painter can crush berries and smear them on a rock with bare hands to make art.
A writer needs little more than mud and a twig to write and preserve a story.
AI bros need to suck corporate cock to "make something."
The same way I made a burrito by ordering it at a restaurant.
It's so funny when racist Australians try to copy American culture war shit and they just land at... really hating their indigenous people who are literally the oldest living human culture in existence and preserved some of the most beautiful places and animals on this planet.
i dont think tillies games are a public right and understand paramount plus for games at 3am but 7.30pm on a friday night is about as prime time as you can get. feels actively limiting to have that behind a paywall
Someone always asks it like a joke.
โWhy donโt women get addicted to gambling?โ said with that half smirk, like women are too sensible, too boring, too busy knitting and paying bills while men ruin their lives at poker tables.
The real answer is ugly and simple: who told you they do not.
You just see male addiction more because his fall is allowed to be public. He gets the smoky casino, the dramatic all in, the story at 3:00 about how he lost the house. A woman is more likely to be losing in silence on her phone in the kitchen while the pasta water boils over. Same nervous system, different socially acceptable scenery.
Picture her at 22:47, kids finally asleep, sink still full because there is always one more dish. She sits down โjust for a secondโ, opens that bright slot app on her phone. It does not say casino. It says something like Lucky Farm or Star Paradise so it feels childish, harmless. She spins. Four dollars. Seven. Twelve. The dopamine hits the same way it would in Vegas. Her heart does the same little jump when almost all the cherries line up. No cigarette smoke, no neon, just fridge hum and the sound of the washer in the next room. Still gambling.
Or she is in a supermarket at 11:32 on a Wednesday, buying the boring list. Milk. Bread. Laundry detergent that never goes on sale. At the checkout she adds three scratch cards โfor fun.โ The cashier does not blink. A mom with a cart and scratchers is invisible. She will scratch them later in the car, key pressed between her teeth, crumbs of silver dust on her black jeans. For a moment her life is not coupons and appointments. It is possibility. Then it is nothing again. She crumples the slips, drives home, tells no one.
The addiction is not missing. It is disguised as something cute or practical or feminine.
โGirls trip to bingo.โ
โGrandma loves the lottery.โ
โMom just likes her little games.โ
Men are allowed to have vices. Women are supposed to have quirks.
People think gambling is only about chips and cards. Women are taught to gamble with different currency. A lot of them learn early how to bet their body, their safety, their whole future on a guy who โjust needs support.โ That is a slot machine too. You pull the handle every time you forgive. Maybe this time he will change. Maybe this time he will really mean it. Your heart spins like reels, and you keep feeding in years.
Why would she need blackjack when she has a relationship that pays out once every ten arguments.
Ask the girl who keeps refreshing her banking app at 03:12 because she moved money from the rent to an โinvestmentโ her boyfriend swore would work if she just trusted him. Ask the woman who married into someone elseโs chaos and is now betting her credit score on his business. She might never have touched a poker table in her life. She is still addicted to risk, just socially approved risk. The kind that gets called loyalty.
NO, it is not that women do not get addicted. It is that their addictions are easier to applaud.
Be thin. But not too thin. Eat. But do not enjoy it. Spend on your looks. But never admit how much. That is gambling too. Every diet is a roulette of health. Every โjust one more round of fillersโ is a bet that your face will translate as youth instead of desperation. Nobody calls that addiction. They call it discipline, self care, staying competitive. Entire industries sit on top of that female urge to feel like they have one more chance to fix themselves.
If a guy spends three nights a week in a casino, his friends say he has a problem.
If a woman spends three nights a week alone with her phone, spinning digital slots while everyone thinks she is scrolling Pinterest, people say she is tired. Or โmom deserves her wine and her silly games.โ The problem does not ring loud enough to be named.
in australia to identify as indigenous you need to be accepted by your community โ its not about blood quantum or appearance โ so while youโre on the internet calling him not aboriginal enough, his actual community has welcomed him
Because this seems so pointless to normal people, I think itโs important to recognize that a large percentage of the modern male population is comprised of scammers. Liars, manipulators, conscience-free losers who seek power (money) and status. Combine this with how men witness the power the human female body has in society, and you get a deep-seated envy. A hateful jealousy and resentment they could do very little about, until recently.
That is why these images are always hot women. The scammers want to take one of the few advantages women have over them (in their eyes this is objectified youth, beauty, sex appeal) and use it for their own malevolent ends.
So the motivation is not creativity at all, or tech advancement. These are facades for more of the same thing men have always wanted: domination at the expense of others, especially women, and that is one of the many reasons GenAi, and the men frantically fueling it, are actually quite evil.
It is the piracy of humanity itself
This right here is why women end up dead. Even when there are charges, even when there are domestic violence orders, even when they are serial abusers known to police, even when women are at risk of being murdered - the police reject her pleas to keep her safe.
Serial domestic violence offender Ryan Michael Tucker was convicted on multiple charges last week. The magistrate gave him a nine-month suspended sentence, a $3000 fine and waved him adios despite the offender assaulting the victim and posting intimate images online.
With 24 hours, this man breached a restraining order by stalking the woman on her social media. She went to Perth Police Station and officers refused to file a report. Tucker is back in custody and plans to apply for bail on his latest set of charges.
The WA Police Commissioner apologised, but only because media found out and shamed him into making a statement. He pretty much admitted this by saying: โI thank Channel 7 news for bringing it to my attention.
โItโs been four years of it. So Iโm fucking tired,โ the woman told media this week.
โItโs annoying and frustrating. It felt like I was the smallest person on Earth.
โHeโs surrounding me without physically surrounding me. It feels like youโre trapped in a fishbowl and you canโt do anything about it.
"I just stay up listening to every noise outside my window and I get really paranoid and scared that heโs going to rock up.โ
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Yeah the visuals might be a lot, but it's very realistic. That's why I don't take men seriously when they try to act like we're being dramatic. THIS IS DRAMATIC!
this is a really big accomplishment. like i need everyone to reflect on the last 6 years and realize so many people have gone. so many things have changed. of course, youโre aiming for higher things, but your body knows youโre also just trying to survive
I expect journalists to give this the same amount of attention as the Mary Earps England saga. They all have the power to find out who was involved in this
Cristiano Ronaldo openly aligns himself with the same people responsible for killing thousands of the very people who once idolised him.
This world truly sucks.
It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.