The idea that boys are socialized to be more aggressive is really one of the funniest blank-slate beliefs, because every parent of boys knows that you spend like 80% of your time socializing them out of aggression. -@wayneburkett

Bridget Phetasy was telling us all to stop whining that lockdowns were awesome in March of 2020. Nay, they were going to make us better people. So what really happened?

The correct response to a bully is not to turn the other cheek. I know that's what we are taught, but in my opinion the correct response to a bully is to punch him back. Game theorists might tell you the solution is to usually retaliate, but mix in the occasional forgiveness.

All the reasons which make the initiation of force an evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative. If some 'pacifist' society renounced the retaliatory use of force, it would be left helplessly at the mercy of the first thug who decided to be immoral. Such a society would achieve the opposite of its intention: instead of abolishing evil, it would encourage and reward it." -Ayn Rand