The last page

I need to say this - This blog is against feminism and ginocracy, and SJW´s, and whatever leftist bullshit there exists out there.

2017-03-08T21:58:00.000-03:00

It´s amazing how the world has been turning worse everyday. In the last year, the whole world watched a lot of things unravelling, and Trump´s election set the tone for what has being going on in the political, social discourse.

For a time, I felt that some aspects of what is understandable as the "left" were easy to defend, but those are a thing of the past now. And I gotta say the whole ruckus of USA´s last year´s election made that very clear to me.

After going through social media (mainly FB), it´s been quite easy to realize that some of the people that maybe visited this blog through the years - those that called themselves pessimists and antinatalists and such - are now part of what is the "left". This has been a shock to me, because as I said earlier, while in some aspects, in the political discourse, I have found easy to defend some aspects of what the "left" defends, I find that this is no longer the case. And with every passing day the "left" and its defenders becoming weirder and weirder, and transforming the world in this bullshit we are seeing - the feminism, the social justice warriorism, the multiple genders, social constructs and what not, I can´t help but having to come here and write this.

And I want to talk about one thing specifically, which is Feminism, as a representative of the left that is to my eyes the most interesting to discuss.

This blog, and its author, have never once, however, agreed with "feminism", for example. Women have been in my male life (currently 33 years old) a constant source of pain, frustration and harm. Of course, men were a source of it. But in the current discourse, men are already vilified and considered worthless pieces of garbage by and large. Unlike women who are seen as some sort of representatives of God on Earth.

I always thought that people that read me already had some built in life experiences that they could simply "get" what I was talking about. But as the main topic of this weblog was always more centered in antinatalism, some things were not discussed and then when I went to meet some of these "pessimists" and antinatalists, I saw some bags of weak sauce that defend much of what the hysterical left defends nowadays, along with the globalism, gynocentrism and everything else that is making the Western world a hell hole to live in, all the while, making it ripe for the taking from everyone, be it ISIS, or China or whatever.

I hate women nowadays. Women are a bore, they are worthless, they dont even want to have sex with their men anymore, all the while forming harems with "alpha males" and being used and becoming single mothers, and using and abusing the men they get with, taking everything from them in their divorces.

Women by and large only prey on the resources of the men nowadays. They don´t care about anything or anyone.

And this was known by me, and was actually one the reasons I became antinatalist in the first place. Women who were supposed to be some sort of safe harbors to us men, became our worst enemies.

What is worst! In the political discourse, men are seeing as predators, as stupid people, prone to attack and enslave said women, all the while women are using men and taking them to the cleaners with each passing day.

All the while emasculating and using the "beta males" they can get their hands on.

And oh what a surprise!!! When I went on FB to mingle with such fellows and discovered that most of them! Most of people I thought intelligent! Smart!! Capable and sensible!! Are actually defenders of feminism and gynocentrism!

Of the regressive left! Of SJW´s! Of the multiplicity of genders!

This blog(ger) does not agree with it.

If the world gets destroyed, it gets destroyed with us being man. And women being women (they are not anymore, actually we now know they are useless hags). I didn´t sign for any type of shit in which I agree to be a stupid moron in women´s march somewhere complaining about the wage gap!!!!

I hate it all.

Fuck everyone who agrees with this shit.

This blog has never been for this type of shit.

If you are not aware that women are destroying the Western world while wearing pink hats then you are a worthless moron! And I dont want you as my reader!

Peace!

New projects/updates.

2016-09-22T19:00:00.003-03:00

Hey guys.
Just an update.

I am recently following with some stuff on my channel, in Portuguese. It mainly deals with more stuff about relationships, thoughts and ideas on suicide and about life, somewhat Mgtow-related, etc.

There´s another channel that I created in which I keep music related videos. My sad attempts at trying to do some music covers. It´s not flashy or top notch but it has a lot of effort, and heart. It is mainly being used to sing romantic songs, but I (try to) sing other styles too.

Anyway. While I decide to continue living or not. Those are my latest projects online.

Hope things are alright with you, dear fellow readers.

Take care.
Cheers.

Acknowledgements.

2016-06-08T20:17:00.001-03:00

These are the people that, throughout these years have made it all possible, and more than that, enjoyable. The people who made me a tad happy that I was a sad mofo.

Special shot out goes to Karl, Josep and Srikant, the first people who commented here, and regularly followed it, since its inception.

I may have forgotten somebody (I think I actually have) and if so, please let me know.

Without further ado, these are them (you):

Ardegas

Bazompora
bored stupid
chickpositive
David Rickerby
Doctor M
E.M. Mouse
estnihil
EVIList
Filrabat
Garrett
Karl
Leaving Society
Josep
metamorphhh
Michael Hoffman
Mr. Mean-Spirited
Pidgeon_kay
Plague Doctor
Raúl
Srikant
Sharkbabe
Stacy
Straydog
Todd
Unknown
Willard Herman
Zoidberg
/Michael

I felt truly connected with them, but I also of note and worth a shot out are:

Alpha Omega
ANymol
Ann Sterzinger
CM
Dima Sokol
Lady Datu
MGTOW
Sister Y
T.
The End Of Money As We Know It

And from the section 'Praise for the blog':

A. Blake
D. Spurlock
G. Temple
K.W.
Still Learning

And several, several Anonymous from every post and comment, who told me their life stories, shared and commented and helped making this a huge fountain of information and knowledge.

These people, you, made me feel alive, and part of something, like never before. Some of them (you!), disappeared, and after two or three months of the blog I never heard again. Some took their time, and reappeared a year or two, or three down the road to let me (us) know they were still alive and kicking. Fine people. Fine friends. Like I´ve never had before in my life. Not for this long a time anyway.

Your every word was my fuel, that kept me going when things were hard.

I´d do it all over again. And it´s been a wild ride.

Most of them probably felt that their work here was done.

As do I today.

I will not die, not now anyways, but I feel like my work here is done. For a while this blog will remain untouched. I wish I could have done so much more, though. But there you go. Regret. A part of life, as always, it seems. I wish I could have helped more, as well. Failed that part, and I´m sorry.

Cheers to all of you. Many cheers.

Have a beer to celebrate. Or tea, or water. And don´t forget that we were all a part of something, if only for a while. And what something it was!

Time to say goodbye... this time for reals.

2016-06-07T22:06:00.001-03:00

Hello,

I wanted to talk to you about this blog, and a major change I´m about to make in it.

First things first.

The blog will come to finish.

I won´t delete it, or take it off, for now at least.

But I feel that many of the things I write here are not 'antinatalism' anymore. They are just my own stories. Just my own personal failings, and dealings with existence.

They are not talking about 'antinatalism' per se. They are just not well suited for a blog that has antinatalism in its name.

I figure it´s time to go somewhere. Do something else.

So I will create another blog. Another name. And keep posting about the mess that is my life there.

I greatly appreciated all the help from the people here since the beginning. All the help. And to meet the best people. People that I consider my friends now.

Funny thing, to be a friend of someone you´ve never met. But I think that 'spiritual' friendships, to use the term spiritual very loosely here, are the best ones. Camaraderie at its best.

I consider my time here, almost 6 years, to be amongst one of the best times of my life, very much paradoxically, considering the theme of the blog.

I never knew this blog would give me the opportunity to meet so many great people.

We laugh and cried together. Like brothers in arms.

For this I am very grateful.

But now it´s time to end this blog.

If I have another thing to talk about, specifically regarding antinatalism, I´ll post it here.

Other than that. this blog will not be updated regularly (or not) anymore.

But before I go, I want to make another plea. I am moving out of home, and if anyone feels they want to help me a little bit, you can contact me to get the details on how. This time, it´s not a donation, but a specific help for a specific purpose. But anyways...

Finally,

Thank you to all my friends and supporters through these years, and if you still want to hear (or read) more from me, you can check this blog in a few days (week?) and I´ll post the new blog´s address.

CHEERS.

Not bad for a monday...

2016-05-30T20:19:00.002-03:00

I realize that life is terrible.

Just today I was thinking about three issues. The ongoing quest of family to break your mind, in subtle ways, to devoid you completely of any will to live.

Then I thought how cold my ex became towards me. I said to her once that I was going to kill myself and she never even called, or anything. She barely answers me these days when I talk about something that was of mutual interest before. And today, when I told her I remembered something from her, a little tidbit of something that happened in a moment we were alone and in the midst of the fresh days of the relationship, she didn´t answer. Anything. She basically is giving me treating silence, and while this is almost ok from someone outside a relationship, this means a lot more to me, as in, the way I´m treated by her now means I´m nothing anymore to her (less than nothing), and even a small piece of tender memory has no value anymore. Not even, a small one. Right now, I´m less than a friend she casually chats a bit, and this to me is fucked up beyond belief, even worse when she was known to talk to anyone anytime. I passed from being her companion for life (who was supposed to help with her life, bills, family etc), to being a schmuck that probably annoys her with my messages.

Then I went to the dentist. And it was a beautiful place, but expensive. He made some X-rays and healed a cavity. And the price was US$ 179,00 just for today, with the total expense of next visits going so far as US$ 560,00. That is in US dollars, considering my currency is devalued, around three times as much.

For comparison I make around US$ 224,00 a month - this may seem (TOO) low, but this is around three times as much here in my country. Still low, because I don´t work regularly.

So I´d basically have to work for three months or so to pay my dentist bill. I´ll probably change my dentist doctor, and will return to my lawyer's syndicate, so I get almost free dental.

Anyway, this goes to show that, in a single day, one can receive news, think about life, and be screwed financially all in a lenght of one single day.

Thanks for reading.

Leaving personal messages, etc.

2016-05-14T23:07:00.000-03:00

Hi. It´s me again.

If you want to communicate with me, and don´t know my e-mail, you can send me a message through the comment section here, and just saying that you don´t want me to publish it.

The comments only get published when I approve them, so if you send me a personal message that you don´t want published, then I won´t, but you have to specify that.

Other than that, I want to thank you again for the great comments and you help you have been giving me so far.

Cheers

Book download and some thoughts on support of the community, etc.

2016-05-14T22:43:00.001-03:00

Hello.

Ok, let´s talk about money for a while.

Oh boy. Here we go again. (This is mostly not directed to my English speaking readers, though, and only about the book. What book? Read on:)

Yeah, so I just found out that there´s a version of my book about antinatalism in Portuguese, that people are downloading from the internet.

This made me rethink about the whole support of the community issue that I talked about once or twice, here.

I thought of working full time on with this blog and other related ones, but I had over the years little financial support to make it a full professional thing in my life.

The friendship and other factors that I got from this blog are invaluable. But finacially speaking it hasn´t brought much money to me. I don´t get money from Google, nor from ads, that are almost inexistent, with the exception of the ad from Mister Mean-Spirited´s blog, on the right (his website is very good, though very acid, go check it out!)

After some time I decided to even take out the donation button, and only brought it back with the idea that maybe somebody could do it, but what the hell. I decided to continue the blog as my own thing, almost a personal journal on the web.

I thought people could, theoretically, like the content and decide to help me financially a little bit, as I dont have a regular job, and I don´t have a regular income, property or etc, I thought this could be done like the Patreon does for other content developers.

Two things about this. If people like the content, couldn´t they theoretically help the creator with it? And another thing. I see young kids making money with shitty youtube channels, through Patreon and ads. I thought maybe I could give it a shot. It would be good, because I like this blog and I like writing what I write here (for the most part).

And it really makes me think it is unfair when comparing with the average annoying shitty youtuber, when the content here (at least) used to be full of philosophical and intimate discussions, that I thought resonated with folks,

But, you know. A little mea culpa. I know that my blog is not very professional, in the sense that I post whenever I want, and etc, and people don´t like that very much, it also is very simple, no fancy gimmicks etc. Plus I understand that when people reach this blog, they are, probably, like I said, in a very bad place in their lives as well, so they wouldn´t probably have a lot of resources to be prone to donate to the first person that ask them, whoever this is. Plus, you know, you may not like the blog, thinking it is badly written, etc.

I get that. I get all of that.

So I just chilled with it. Really. If you want to donate, as a thank you, it´s fine, if not, it´s also fine.

But then I became aware that my book (A última filosofia) is now being downloaded and shared freely on the web.

Alright. I don´t want to be a pain, but I´m not exactly a wealthy person. I don´t live on the streets because I live with the folks, as anyone who follows my blog knows. But I don´t have regular money or anything.

I´m writing this here so I can illustrate that I gain absolutely nothing (in regards of money - other than two donations and the only ad I have on the right) writing this blog. If you think that whenever someone visits me I get some money, you are wrong. I receive almost no money from this (exception is the ad revenue from Mr Mean Spirited and two one time donations).

And now, on top of that, the thing that I wrote to sell is being downloaded and shared freely (mostly by Portuguese speaking people naturally).

I know the internet has a culture of "free" everything. Free music, free movies, free radio, free everything. And I don´t want to be the one to tell you to stop that, because the internet is its own thing now and nobody can stop it.

But, speaking of movies, it´s one thing to download things from huge studios, that have the know-how and the means to get money from people anyways, with merchandise, toys, ads, and whatnot.

And another thing is downloading something from a guy who lives in the basement of their parent's house (I don´t live on a basement nor a house, but you get the point).

Another thing altogether is if you like the guy, and/or like the content he creates.

If you like the content someone creates, why not help the person if the person needs? Isn´t it strange as balls that you like someone and download the means of that person receiving some small amount of money?

I honestly thought the community in general couldn´t that, but lo and behold.

I already receive almost nothing with the books. And now with people downloading it, it will probably become nothing.

If anyone downloads Benatar´s book (I didn´t, I bought a hardcover), for example, at least he is a professor in a University with a steady and regular job. But it doesn´t make much sense to like Benatar´s idea, and just download his book, specially in a niche philosophy as this is. We buy the book to have it, and it also to show support, to the man, and to the idea that is dear to us.

I don´t get this at all. I mean, if I was rich, or at least if I had money to fully provide for myself, a house, a car, pay medical bills, etc. I wouldn´t mind at all people downloading my stuff. Really.

But as I sit here, on a house that isn´t mine, 32+ years old, with no steady income, as I receive almost zero from this blog, and now aware that people are sharing the book, it kinda almost seem that the community doesn´t give a crap to the very people that help the community, which is kinda insane, and perhaps it is a trait of this community.

And if the money that would be generated from the book wouldn´t make a difference, fine. But it does. I needed it.

Look, I get it. As a community people here don´t like to do anything 'by the books'. But what it would be like if religions did the same. Christianism for example. For all the ideas of giving up wordly life and all that, they have done a lot to themselves. They built churches communities.

If you say "yeah, this is cool, but this is how we roll, we don´t need to help anyone on our very community", then the community just dies out, reaching nobody else.

Is that the goal here?

And if you don´t like the book, for example: why download it? And if you do like it, why not support me by buying the thing? You can´t? Oh. Alright then. (But I can´t shake the feeling that most people can, though.)

It seems the community, as a whole, does not give a crap, which kinda sucks, but which is fine, in the end. It would, however be VERY, VERY FINE, if I didn´t need any financial resources.

But anyways.

/Rant over

(I like the people here, and this is not to guilty trip anyone, it´s just a reflection. Cheers buds)

Friendship part 2

2016-05-05T23:32:00.000-03:00

(Read part 1 here)

THE SECOND FRIEND

I´m not going to sugar coat it. This story is a bit weird.

But here it goes.

I knew this guy since 2008. I met him in a social network group for aspiring writers. He was a soft spoken guy and had interest on stuff people normally discuss like movies, and pop culture crap.

A few years passed. It took some time to meet him in person but eventually he came to my town to work about three years ago, so we went out a couple of times, generally with my another person (my ex, the other friend, or a colleague).

Eventually. He came out as a gay person. And it´s not that he hit on me, but he began making some odd comments and regards, and asking pictures of me.

The point here is this.

It´s not that him being gay made me uncomfortable.

It´s the fact that he betrayed my trust.

I'd like to believe friendship is more or like brotherhood.

So when a friend began to talk funny to me, this is where friendship broke down.

He knew me before. He knew I was straight. He knew my ex-gf, and he knew (or maybe knew) I was still thinking of her. There´s just something that gets broken whenever a guy who was your friend, tries to make the moves on you.

The lesson here is that people will forget about you, once their agendas get in the way.

THE LAST FRIEND

This last friend was the one that stuck for longer. He is a cool guy, but when push came to shove, he choosed his preferences. I was alone, and needed to have a small contact with human beings and he just choose to hang out whenever his schedule was perfectly fine for it. He has a gf and he had his schedule, so whenever it was right, he would hang out, but... just the exact time so he could move on to another activities. So I choose to go to his gym, to practice a bit of martial arts. But when I asked him to go to running on the week, he couldn´t. Nay, he didn´t want to get a little bit of his schedule moved. Things like that, even knowing I was a disaster after the ex broke up, and other minor stuff, made me realize that he isn´t exactly what I thought of 'friend'. Also the fact that he was pretty much the only person I was counting on that time.

Friendship perhaps does not exist, but the way I see it, it was supposed to be this good thing, where you respect your friend, your brother in arms.

Mind you, these are people I thought "cool" enough to be friends to begin with.

Perhaps there are only friendship between people who are fighting wars, or defending points of view, or holding similar thoughts, other than that, in general, people will disappoint.

Thanks for reading these, and the latest batch of my complaints. I´m no superman. I´m just some guy.

Cheers.

It's alright

2016-05-02T21:30:00.000-03:00

Hey guys,

Sorry for the sobby post of yesterday.

I´ll post the friendship post number 2 shortly.

Thanks!

Farewell sunshine.

2016-05-01T17:12:00.001-03:00

Yesterday I called my ex.

I was coming home from a visiting a 'friend'. It was 23 hours and I thought it was pretty late.

Turns out she said she was going out at that same time. I was coming home, and the ex said she was going out.

The person I had hold in my arms at night, several times, who fell asleep on my arms, is laughingly saying to me to "get over" and move on.

She said that nobody is irreplaceable, which kinda says more about her, than it does me.

And then she asked to hang up because she was getting to the place where she was headed.

I don´t know what to say anymore, or what to do.

I thought about punching out yesterday again.

Sometimes, I reassure myself to get back on track, but then things like this happens, and it just crushes me.

After that, I told her through messaging that I probably would kill myself. Then I erased her from my contacts.

I haven´t heard nothing from her ever since. No call, nothing.

The message is clear. She doesn´t care at all. I could die. And that´s it. She would move on. Not even a single tear, I guess.

Everything, in 4 + years of relationship gone to the wind.

To my mind, this is crazy as balls, because I never thought of her as just a "squeeze", or someone to pass the time. She was my muse, my love, my life.

I know I made mistakes to her, but who doesn´t? I told her time and again, through any number of shed tears, that I was very sorry for my mistakes, but apparently, this means next to nothing.

And now, I live without knowing what am I going to do with all my memories of her, that even she doesn´t want me to have and to cater to anymore.

There was a time that, if I said that I was going to forget about her, that would cause pain in her. Now she´s asking me to do it.

It´s a very surreal experience to me. I just can´t seem to be cavalier about it. There´s nothing in life that has prepared me to lose someone I thought was going to be my only companion through life.

I have no idea how to deal with that.

I don´t know what to do to take her out of my mind. I went out with another girl for a month and that only made me more sad.

There´s a part of me, that thought she was going to be the 'one', that refuses to let her go.

And it´s been a while now, it´s already time to let her go, and I can´t seem to do that.

I'm lost.

Friendship, part 1.

2016-04-24T22:37:00.003-03:00

I'm going to answer the comments made in the last comment this week. Already say that I appreciate very much every comment.

I´m going to talk about Friendship. And how fickle I came to learn they are.

I´m 32 years old. So I´m already on my second or third batch of "friends". What do I mean by that is that, when you are young you tend to have your little friends. When you are in high-school you tend to have a group of friends (or more) as well.

And then when you finish college, you probably also have a set of friends. This I call "batches". This happens because people more or less change with time, and by the time you get to high-school, you probably won't have many friends you made when you were in kindergarten. This is because things change, you change, and by the force of circumstances you stop being friends with whomever it was you were back in the day.

I am also going to use the term friendship loosely here because it´s the best we have. I´ll try to hold down different meanings as I go along.

As it´s usual with my blog here, I´m going to use my own history to illustrate what I´m going to say.

I came to find how much friendship is a hollow term these day and age.

Does this mean, I will say that you should not or must not have friends, or that friendships are stupid?

No. By all means, go out and try to meet people, as long as you want and they are good, relatable folk.

What I am saying is that friendship is a very hollow idea in this world that we live in. I´m talking about almost a selfless friendship, a romantic idea of it.

Granted, romantic ideas of everything are generally stupid anyway.

But there are some places when they should be more or less "understandable", at least? Friendships being one such case, IMO.

I had three of such friends in the beginning of 2011 that I don´t have anymore.

And these were "friends friends". Not just people I knew, but people I had a connection of some sort. They were not just acquaintances. But, come to think of it, how do you separate a friend from an acquaintance?

Maybe they were acquaintances after all. But, since I invested in these relations much more than others, you generally consider those "friends", whatever this means in your lexicon.

I had three such friends AFTER college, and after some years have passed in fact, since as of 2011 I was already 5 years after my college formation.

This is important. I´m not saying that young people are fleeting, but yeah, young people are very fleeting. They are very fickle and unstable, and generally in theirs 15 - 19, so much happens in their lives it´s difficult to keep up with much 'friendships' are all. They make and meet many friends, but they also disregard a lot of connections in their lives. The speed that they happen in this age is astonishing.

After you are about finishing college and the first years after it and so on, things slow down in life (and they´ll keep slowing down, I gather), and friendships have the time to settle and then you can keep or make friendships that will go along with you for some years to come.

Another thing is that friendship is supposed (SUPPOSED being key here) to be different from 'romantic relationships', because those, in general are even more fickle than the general notion of friendship itself. Friendships are supposed to last longer than failed romantic attempts, and people expect to be friends of former 'romantic partners'.

So, in this sense, whenever your girlfriend number 8 brokes up with you, it is generally expected that this might happen, whereas friends are supposed to stick around and last longer, and form more solid relationships. (Romantic relationships are complicated, though, and are not the subject of this essay here)

So that´s why, in a way, I am nowadays a tad more disappointed with my former "friends" than I am with my ex-girlfriend.

So I had three friends at the beginning of 2011, which is 5+ years after graduating. People that I had "weeded out" from the chaff, people that I thought I knew and trusted. Friends that I thought were even more solid people than other "friends" I had earlier in my days. People I talked about the acquaintances I made, the girls I knew, the difficulties I had in life. You know. 'Friends'.

And then, everything just... kinda fizzled out.

So I am going to start with the number one, the first friend I lost. It was, you guessed it, in that symbolic time, 2011.

THE FIRST FRIEND I LOST

This friend was a very important friend throughout most of my life. I used to be friends with him since I was a wee little thing. We lost touch back in 1993, when we changed schools (funny thing, we went to the same major school but never became friends again there, because we attended school at different times).

And then we got in touch when I found him again through Orkut, a social network back in the day.

We hung out from there until 2011, had a few arguments here and there, but in general things were ok.

In 2008 we had a major argument. In 2009 again. And then, in 2011, I brought up these arguments we had mostly through mail, and he didn´t budge. He didn´t understand I was not ok with some stuff he had said.

Funny thing also. When I got to know this friend in 2005, he was already well changed. I thought he was becoming crazy. In 2011 he was even worse. He took several meds. But as fate is very ironic, it turns out my own mental well being degenerated quite like his own in those years now. He was very withdrawn, and suffered from social anxiety at the very least. Barely left home, this kind of thing.

At the time, I though I had it better than him, but some years down the line I´m at the same spot if not worse.

So we had a disagreement, and as he was kinda conchy as to recognizing the way I felt about it, so I figured what the hell.

Let's finish this.

We had disagreements, it wasn't just one. So it is a testament to the change in nature people display when they grow up as well.

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I´ll continue with the two other friendships next post.

Many cheers to all.

(Read part 2 here)

Ending letter n. 2

2016-04-10T21:44:00.001-03:00

I probably not gonna end myself tonight. So I assume.

But I think I´ll go around, see what I can do differently. It doesn´t seem the world is getting better as a whole, perhaps? Maybe it is only my perception of it.

Anyway.

I´ll plan it all well. See what I can learn beforehand. One of the things that stopped me going through my 3rd floor window a couple times now is the fact that I know that I have a chance of not dying and ending up paralyzed or something in a hospital somewhere. So that is kinda stupid. If you are going to do it, do it right. Now I agree with Yoda on this. There is no try. Do it or get out.

"Correct you are, my padawan"

But what maybe some people know is that I had decided to do it long ago. Once. By the late 2010´s, I had decided life pretty much was done.

I never had lasting relationships, never had a long term girlfriend, I wasn´t going anywhere financially and in my career. Coupled with a life´s worth of trauma and frustration, I had decided, - 'well, guess it´s time to pack my bags and leave.'

So by the time the end of 2010 came along, I decided to focus not on my law major, but on drawing and stuff like that, and writing. The drawing thing didn´t pan out, so I kinda let that go for a while. Began concentrating my efforts on this blog, in a way of saying 'goodbye' to the world, and alerting people of its horrors along the way.

By the beginning of 2011, I was searching a way to travel a little, so I began taking a course in avation, as flight attendant, so I could travel for a while, while working. I was changing my life little by little, giving it up. All the fancy civil servant jobs, and whatever. Figured, before I go, and as life is apparently not in the mood to give anything that I wanted, might as well travel a little, trying to have fun.

There is much more to what was my life then that quite does not translate well, but the thing is I was slowly, but surely, giving up stuff, and beginning to focus on the blog more and more before I kick the bucket.

Then, it happened. One night when I was coming back from a pizza place. I met a friend (male) who had a female friend with him. And she began talking to me. I was talking to himself, and she began to talk and talk to me. On that same night, after seeing the movie, I went on the internet and got her contact.

About a month or so later, after very memorable circumstances, that girl became my girlfriend. Finally, I had a girlfriend. I didn´t even care if in reality we were meant to be, in my mind we were. And that´s how it all went.

She was amazing to me.

But it changed me and my goals.

Now I wanted to go back. Not travel. Not go away! But to go back to life. My old life. At least a part of it. I raided my tomb and took the fresh corpse that was in there to reanimate it. I wanted back in!

I wanted to live because right out in the moment I was trying to end it, here came life and made a practical joke on me. And made me go back. Wanting to be alive if not for just some more time.

She gave me life.

And now, this very person, who had given me life, said time and again, she doesn´t want to be with me anymore, effectively shoving me forcibly on that same old tomb I had left open 5 years ago.

So in a way, I felt like went back in time almost 6 years, and I am almost at December 2010 again, on the same level of "let´s play dice with life and see what I get".

I have almost no future plans. I have almost the same amount of anything really. Friends. Money. So in a way. It´s almost like 4+ years of my life were kinda like the most surreal-sweet-and-fucked-up dream I had ever had.

Back at square zero. Once more.

And that´s to explain very carefully why I am at crossroads with my personal ending once more.

Ending letter n. 1

2016-03-24T21:34:00.002-03:00

If nothing changes in my life, I´m probably not gonna last long. So there goes one of my last posts here.

You know, if you want to have kids, have fucking kids. You know, if you think this might make you happy, or whatever might make you happy, go do it.

Having children is risky. Demands responsibility. And it´s probably the most cruel thing - we'll return to that - you can do. But if you want to be happy, and you think this might do it, then who am I to say otherwise.

We are all here, trying to get a chunk out of this ellusive thing called "happiness".

I tried to be happy. I did. Despite all the shit that life brings to you. I guess we all try.

Funny this word. Try.

Do or do not. There´s no try. Yeah right.

Anyway.

We all try our bests at this. Sometimes there´s only the trying.

And I´m not going to be responsible for anyone's lack of happiness. I would advise otherwise.

Chase it, chase it with all you got. Not ephemeral pleasures, but your happiness, in whatever it lies. Go after it. It may be ellusive and it may be just a mirage. No worries. Chase the illusion.

If it is an illusion, it´s pretty much the same thing right?

Chase it, because one day, sooner or later, it will move away from you. One way or the other.

So do what you can with the time that is given to you.

It is true that pessimism is an end of life philosophy. If you come here, it means that it is over for you, for one reason or another. Or not.

If it´s not, then turn back now and try to do whatever you can to achieve a little of that ellusive state of happiness.

Because in the end, things get ugly anyways. So there´s no point in pushing it.

What my mother said to me about suicide.

2016-03-09T12:54:00.006-03:00

My mother just said to me, that, if I did kill myself, that I should do it in a way to cause the less amount of noise, and scandal, and that I should not talk about her in a will or letter, because she does not deserve to have only one 'point of view' told on things about her.

Yep.

I wanted to be able to live out of my house, but I can't afford it right now. Too bad.

I guess I should kill myself then. And write a letter.

Robots everywhere.

2016-03-01T20:54:00.001-03:00

We now have:

Cars that drive themselves.

Robots that cant lift up stuff, and walk.

A store that doesn´t need workers in it.

You can learn through mental stimulation like in that movie, The Matrix.

What the hell.

Am I really the only one that sees where this is going?

They NEED people to work. Until now.

When I talk about it, people keep silent like I am dreaming. Really though?

We are about to see some seriously shit happening in the years to come. We are going to see jobs disappearing, turmoil. Some serious shift of power, and money, and everything.

What is going to happen? What do you think?

I Fucking Hate this A.I talk.

2016-02-18T10:45:00.001-03:00

One of these days, I heard from a "pessimist", that A.I (artificial intelligence) is a good thing, and that will "remedy a backwards model of economy", and that will be good to us, and all that.

Look.

We all wanted to have a robot friend. Maybe not all, buy you get the idea. Some people figure things like C-3PO from Star Wars, or even a sarcastic one like TARS from Interstellar. I get it. Most guys want this, for they (think they) are themselves very cool and want a robot to be besides them in their cool adventures.

But real life... real life has a way to be depressing. I´m not saying that, perhaps one day, we will not have robots such as the ones mentioned, that we could be 'friends' with and all that.

But as of right now? Robots don't give a damn about you, and they are used to diminish work stations everywhere in the world. Lots of people lose their jobs because of robots in the world, it´s a true fact.

"Alright, but those jobs were bad, and hard, and nobody wanted to do them anyway."

Maybe. But you know who doesn´t care much about that? The bank teller who lost his job. A factory worker who spent his days preparing and working and now has to start over, so he can try and bring some food to the table, in this new world and economy full of annoying teens and young adults fawning over how computer and robots are so cool.

And people are just talking about this wasn´t such an issue are clearly people who do not need to work for a living, OR they work with computers (field, not machine, I work in a computer as well, as lots of people).

Computers can do A LOT of the things humans did in the past, and pretty soon they will be able to do a lot more. Faster. And tirelessly, and almost at zero cost.

Take my example right now. I work with translation. Google translator still can´t translate worth a damn, so people NEED me and others like me to do it.

NEED. NEED is the fucking word here.

Nobody wants to pay me anything. Nobody wants to pay me a dime purely out of their hearts (as seen by how much money this website made when I asked for donations). They NEED me, that´s all.

So, put a robot in that equation right now, an A.I, who, as perfectly as a human, can do the same job.

What do you think is going to happen in this scenario, huh, smart guy?

A) I get to kick it with my A.I. buddy whilst still doing translations;

B) I get fired IMMEDIATELLY because there´s a thing that can do what I can do faster and tirelessly and costs nothing.

Huh? What is your GUESS?

Let´s take a look at another fiction trope. The detective solving crimes with the help of his buddy robot.

In real life (or as my computer savvy friends would like to say, IRL), solving crimes with your buddy robot is more like you out in the streets with no job and money, and the robot doing the solving himself.

Because fuck you, that´s why.

So. Whenever people talk about A.I., it pisses me the fuck off. Because they talk about it like it doesn't have any bearings on the world they are in. Like it is a normal thing, that´s not going to severely change society, and people like myself are going to suffer for it.

People that talk good stuff about A.I. are generally in one of these categories:

A) Self professed smart guy who wants to sound cool so he can get some poontang;

B) Someone who actually works for a living, in that field;

C) A+B

D) Unemployed Millenials

E) People who do not have to work + A (or D)

And also, no, A.I. is not going to come to "be awesome", nothing comes to be awesome, nothing is put out in this world, so you, average human being, have a better life. The powers that be don´t give a damn about that. It´s about their own agenda, their own money, their own betterment. They don´t care if a few billion people lose their jobs and die out in the end of the day, as long as they are still served by a mix of some people and A.I. robots.

And maybe this narrative is not true, but I still hate this A.I. talk. So for once, could you please stop talking about how A.I. is going to solve your whole life and make you have sex with a hot girl whilst you shoot your laser pistol on zombies/aliens/evil soldiers, etc.; that would be swell.

A reflection on social media...

2016-02-14T22:18:00.000-03:00

People have thousands of "friends", but no real conversations.

They have thousands of people on their contacts on their phone apps, but nobody ever chats or drops a line.

And when one does, they get scared. "Are you really talking to me? What are you doing, you freak? You only have an access to me through my number that was given to you by me. But actually saying hey, are you out of your mind?"

And when people do communicate, it´s seldom out of genuine interest.

"Hey."

"How is it hanging."

"Alright."

"Cool."

People don´t know how to talk anymore to each other. They share phone numbers, photos, but they are completely alienated from each other.

They have thousands of friends, thus no depth of friendship with anyone.

They post their inane comments on YouTube videos. But try to initiate a real conversation with a stranger there, and you´ll know the reason wars exist.

"Social media" was meant to bring humanity closer, but it may have worked to the other end. It may have driven us more far apart.

The truth is even though people like to friend each other, they know little about what is friendship. Even though they seem to have a notion of communication, they seldom understand what a real conversation is.

LOL @ Facebook again.

2016-02-04T22:41:00.002-03:00

I talked about this before but:

Facebook people tire me.

I get into Pessimist/Antinatalist communities there and talk to some folks, and they don´t even know about me or the blog. Some do. But some don´t.

I´m sorry, but, my blog was one of the first on the web on Antinatalism. Alright?

So if you don´t know me or my blog, I reserve the right to think you are not very knowlegeable about the subject you are talking about.

Some don´t even want to know about it. I say, "my blog is this.", and they say: "I´ll look at it later, thanks."

This is maybe my depression talking but here is the deal:

This blog, although not perfect, and not everyone´s cup of tea, is one of the first there ever was on the subject of antinatalism on the whole web, when it started in 2010.

And I write on it about 6 years now, crying and spilling my suffering, tears and blood here.

So a little bit of respect would be swell.

I knew this was going to happen. And people told me about it too. As soon as AN becomes a mass phenomenon, this would be bound to happen. AN is still very young, but already there are lot of people, lot of friction, and a lot of quasi-factions being formed.

In the future, we´ll probably have to move on to small communities of AN and pessimists, with individuals that share more of our views than just this.

Cheers to all.

A sad day (?) for humanity.

2016-01-27T16:42:00.001-03:00

After Chess, there was a game that humans could be proud they could still win against computers.

The game of Go, or Weiqi, or Baduk.

If you were new to the game, you still could lose to a computer, but the best human players of this game still won against the top computers.

Until this week.

Now, we lose at everything else AND the game we didn´t, but now do.

When you think about it, soon humans won´t be needed anymore even to the system they created.

So now what?

Indeed. Now what?

Now that computers can win even on the game we thought they couldn't, now what?

What is left for people?

I think there´s very little left.

From day one, animals have us beat regarding some physical attributes. Some are faster, stronger, resilient. But minds were supposed to be our thing. We thought about stuff. We reflected. We were smart.

Now we created computers. And then we are not so smart anymore.

What is a mind? If mind is just a set of algorithms and instructions, if it´s just about this world of computing and all that, then computers are already our masters. They can do everything we did, and do it better.

What´s left for humans? What is our place as a species now?

The nihilistic part of me thinks this is very well deserved for us as a species!

We are nothing indeed.

But this is telling us something regarding our place in this world now. What´s going to happen?

If there´s nothing existential, nothing else, for us, as a species, then humans are just a sad, sad excuse for beings right now.

Anyway.

Many cheers to all.

The Zika Virus

2016-01-25T21:30:00.002-03:00

A virus that is spreading in Brazil through a mosquito species called Aedes Aegypti, is bringing panic... mainly to people who want to have kids.

The disease it transmits through its 'bite' is only a minor one in the scale of diseases. A fever, dizziness. Things like that. But since last year, people are becoming aware of an apparent side-effect of this disease.

People affected with it, be it women or men - tend to have kids with microcephaly. There was a large number of people born with this condition in Brazil and the correlation with the disease and virus seems strong.

Strongly enough that people are becoming increasingly mad with their governments, when they are recommending that they don´t have more kids. At least until the outbreak of the disease is taken care of.

But people can't seem to fucking listen to "hey, maybe do not have kids for a year or two" with a relaxed mind, so they are getting angry and it might make governments to move faster to deal with the situation, but as of right now, we have one of the most interesting situations to AN´s ever.

The time when a mosquito began to make people fear reproducing.

Again with Star Wars The Force Awakens - The third raid

2015-12-23T14:30:00.000-03:00

I sense some bullshit in the Force.

Once again, I´m going to talk about this large fantasy movie.

So, after talking about this movie a bit on this post, and in this one, I went to see it. And oh, boy. How was I right.

So, not only in the trailers is the character Rey - the female character - is showing fighting side by side, but in the movie she is the ultimate badass.

The movie is so blatant feminist and in-your-face that it is kinda annoying.

First of all, our lady friend here is so corageous and brave. She not only fights side by side with the characters. In the movie she is seen fending off the attack of thiefs with her staff - and when the male character Finn goes to help her, she already took care of them, and he remains there, as kinda humorous moment, in which he realizes he was kinda stupid to assume she needed help.

THAT IS IN THE MOVIE.

Second of all, she is oh, so intelligent. She is a pilot, even though she is also an scavenger on a god-forsaken planet in the middle of the desert, where she has to trade electronic parts of old ships for food.

But this doesn't stop her knowing a lot of languages, like communicating with a robot (droids, they call it in SW), and with Chewbacca, even though she is clearly a freaking scavenger living in the middle of a desert.

She knows her way about computers. Do you know of any people who live in deserts scavenging parts of broken vehicles that can fly a motherfucking airplane? Or talk two or three or four languages? From different creatures?

Oh, bullshit. It´s a movie. Yeah, but the male characters can´t all do this. Finn, the male protagonist, is helpless when it comes to flying a spaceship. And also when it comes to fixing mechanical things. Also, he can´t understand nobody who isn´t talking perfect english. So there´s that.

She is strong. She can take care of herself. In the first moments knowing Finn, she tells him several times: "Don´t take my hand", or "I can run without holding hands", when the male tries to exert his oppression by trying to take care of her. When the male character falls on the ground, and then asks if she is alright, she pauses for a moment as if pondering if he is stupid, and tells him that "yeah", she´s fine, of course. Obviously. She can take care of herself.

And she is ALSO a Jedi. Yeah. I thought they weren't going that way, but lo and behold. Of course, they did it. If the Jedis and whatnot are the pinnacle of power in that universe, of course the front girl will HAVE to also be one, on top of EVERYTHING else she is shown to do.

I´m not talking this out of my ass.

In the movie she is clearly shown to be above the other characters in intelligence and wits.

She.... motherfucking uses the powers of a Jedi (which she even isn´t yet - maybe) to mind trick others, and she wins a fucking lightsaber match against a skilled opponent, just because.

There´s nothing she can´t do. Because she is a 21st century female protagonist in a mass media movie.

It is ludicrous.

Of course, you are not going to see this shown in the media, because normal media has already accepted this as the norm. And don´t even give me, "it´s just a movie" bullshit. Of course it is just a movie. But you must be very innocent if you think these mass media products are not geared towards a lot of reinforcement of the social and cultural order of a people, whatever that may be.

Stories are reflections of the people in which they born, even worse when they are mass geared like this. You can learn about a people by learning their stories.

Those are the values that are being put forth today. Women are the best. Women are strong. Independent. Intelligent. They are more capable than men. Even when men are trained, dedicated, and overall supposedly better than they are (in the case of lightsaber battle she won).

If you are blind to this, you have absolutely no idea what´s going on in western society as we speak.

Small follow-up to my post about 'Star Wars - The Force Awakens' and Feminism

2015-12-15T22:15:00.000-03:00

There´s this post, saying that Star Wars TFA (The Force Awakens) passess the Bechdel Test.

Basically the Bechdel Test is a test created by a feminist cartoonist to see if any work of art is feminist enough.

As I said, it doesn´t quite matter to me whether you think Feminism is good thing or not, what it does matter to me is that an AN be perceptive of what´s going on around him/her, politically and socially.

As Antinatalists, we have to be perceptive, and aware. And always question things.

Legacy of an Antinatalist.

2015-12-12T14:16:00.003-03:00

I talked about this some time ago.

There was this brazillian antinatalist.

He asked me for my address. I told him. Around the 22nd day of June, a package had arrived in my home.

It contained a bunch of CDs/DVDs addressed to me.

One of them read, "Begin by this DVD, Rafael Tages de Melo".

When I opened it contained a letter to his family and friends. The other one was for me.

In the one specified to me, there was a recommendation for me to keep using his google account, to not let some of his videos on youtube get taken down. In it there was the number of other people that I should contact if I didn't want to keep doing this.

It was a long time before I decided going there, but yesterday I did.

I accessed his e-mail.

In it there were unread e-mails, a lot of them. There were two from people wondering about him. Asking where he was, saying that there had not seen each other in a long time.

Let me tell you, it was kinda creepy doing that. Accessing another one's e-mail, which is almost like these days' central system of info. There was an email remembering that his passport was expiring. Another one was an answer of a job application, or something like this. There was a notification of Facebook saying his account had been deactivated.

His life was there, and he had granted me access to it. And a lot of his friends didn't even knew he is gone. I accessed his youtube account to keep his vids going. There was a lot of vids about cars. For some reason he liked cars. He just found them appealing visually, or something. We all have our little attachments to somethings. Our clingings.

His (antinatalist) memories now lie with me.

This is a huge honor to me. To know about his ultimate decision. To be a keeper of his memories here, and his wishes. He had no kids, probably nobody in his family to ask the same.

I will keep my duty to him, for a good while at least, and to anybody else that feels that they trust me, until the day it´s my own time to go.

Many cheers to all.

My thoughts on Feminism.

2015-12-10T10:34:00.001-03:00

Well.

Let´s go again, debating another hot issue.

Feminism.

Alright.

Well, right out of the bat, I find strange for a man to be feminist. You can mix the meaning, and make it to be a liberation of "all human beings", but when it comes right down to the word, it does have "femi-" in it, which I find rather strange for a male to be advocating "a priori".

If it means "give the same rights" that men have to women, then I can kinda see why someone - a male even, would consider themselves 'feminist', though I'd rather to be called an "equal right-ist", or something of that sort? Feminism does seem to imply, though faintly, that women are or should be considered better people, on account of being females, like they should be prioritized over males automatically.

I don´t like that idea.

See, being a male, large part of the discomfort I´ve suffered in life has come from females. Not exactly physical harm, but societal pressures, fears, frustrations, all this good stuff. To my mind and my eyes, females are a large part of infra-structure of suffering that makes the suffering in my life possible.

So I can't, in principle, be "in favor", or pro-female, or feminist, because I don´t subscribe to the notion that (all) women are these pure angels that only do good, and are being mistreated all the time. I´m sorry, but I just don´t see it. Not more than males, or old people, or any other demographic. Females suffer but other types and categories of human beings AND animals suffer too. It´s kinda stupid to declare myself as a 'feminist', as if I should defend this class of human beings specially, despite of all the pain that they too inflict to the system, in the system and onto themselves. I refuse to do it.

Now, all the politically correct crowd can probably quote stories like women being mistreated, used as sex slaves, and even suffering genital mutilation, and that, by not declaring myself as a feminist, I am in favor of all this abuse. I certainly I am not advocating any kind of abuse, be those mentioned here or others. I think they are abuses and should be dealed with as well. Female mutilation is horrible. But so would be any kind of mutilation, made against any other animal. It is ALL horrible.

This does not mean I am in favor of feminism in western societies, for example. Where women most of the times are conceited, where males are being portraited as dimwits, where they think they should implant a society where males are slaves to women (in a lot of senses, they already are, most of them). Feminism in western societies is very different of a "a fight for feminism" in societies where women are decidedly suffering abuses as human beings.

Women are already masters of a lot of things in modern society. NO RELATIONSHIP begins without the approval of women legally. Their word is final, be in a normal relationship, marriages, sexual consents, and everything in between. They choose if they say yes to men. Nothing happens without THEIR approval, and we are supposed to fight for more power? There´s not even more power to be had. They have ALL the power in relationships, period.

They have their say in all normal things. They can own business, property, vote, be single mothers. So I fail to see how they are being oppressed in modern societies.

Poor girls! Poor beautiful, healthy, powerful girls! I hope they can relieve all the oppression they are feeling with over priced pumpkin spiced lattes!

BUT THEY ARE STILL RAPED!

Yes, and it is a crime, recognized but every decent legal system that exists. Nobody is condoning rape when they debate feminism, at least I don´t see it that way, and I´m certainly not doing that here.

Males are not angels, and they do evil stuff. But it´s not all of them, and certainly it is not done with the flavor feminism conveys. Men do bad stuff to females and males, and other species, and the environment, and the universe, and everything in between. Women are not privileged in the evil that men do.

ANTINATALISM AND FEMINISM

So, those were my own, my personal ideas about Feminism.

Now, I´ll discuss a bit about the Antinatalism and Feminism as philosophies.

First of all, Antinatalism is Antinatalism. Its mainly about not having kids. There are some other ideas involved, but this is the gist of it.

So, while other points of view can drink on its fountain (and the same goes for AN and other philosophies and ideas), AN will be AN and that´s all. People linking antinatalism automatically to satanism, nihilism, to veganism, to feminism, etc, and not noticing those are different things are making it confusing to everyone involved.

AN is also very pessimistic. It is a branch of pessimistic philosophy. I don´t see the "pessimism" part in feminism. I see feminists protesting, and out and about in bars, getting wasted, being promoted in their jobs, being "womanly" in their youtube videos and Tumblr websites. This is not exactly pessimistic.

So while there could theoretically be a faint link on the account of questioning societal values, and in this case, mainly about reproductive rights, I don´t see many other links between AN and feminism a priori.

This is not to say that 1) women can't be AN or pessimists, 2) that they can´t link in their personal views of the world, feminism and other subjects, even AN.

I´m just speaking my mind, and saying what I believe AN is about.

Those are main points, very briefly.

If there is a need of more debate, I´ll go on.

If I receive some fierce feedback, I might use it to debate further in a post.

Many cheers to all.

New Star Wars movie (The Force Awakens) and Feminism

2015-12-05T16:42:00.000-03:00

The new Star Wars movie, Star Wars - The Force Awakens, is coming out this december. Some of the stuff in the movie are cool and all that, but only in a mass phenomenon as Star Wars you can see so clearly how things have changed in (pop) culture in the last few decades.

Some things remain the same. We have to same imagery of nazism in the what is now called "the First Order", the powerful military force that probably replaced the Empire defeated in the trilogy. We have the same "bips" and "bops" of robots everywhere. We can see the same deserts and aliens all around.

Some things are new. The protagonists of this are very representative of the culture nowadays. First we have Finn, which is black. And there´s nothing wrong with that, all I´m saying is that it is very different comparing with the cast we had all over Star Wars ever. The original trilogy had Lando Calrissian, but he was a secondary character, important, obviously, though he was a minor character.

But this "change" is not very important.

The one that gets me most is the girl, Rey.

Let´s recap. In the first trilogy, we had Leia Organa, who was a princess (stereotype), and she didn't do much stuff besides "princess-y" stuff in the first movie. She was there with an obvious reason. To be rescued, to be sought for. That was THE whole goal of the first movie. To rescue the princess.

The main heroes, were all male, including the droids (you just know R2-D2 would be a male as well, even though in the English language we would use the pronoun "it" to refer to a robot - not the same in Portuguese, in which we use the "male" gender to refer to the robot, but I digress).

Of course, Leia Organa is a bit more (or tries to be), than a "mere" princess. She is feisty, she is brave, she can take care of herself, during some parts of the movies. Good. Feminism was a movement that was transforming social relations since the 60's, possibily before. And the movie came out in 1977, almost 20 years after the beginning of the first waves. Still we can definitely see that Princess Leia was very much a princess, with a definite role - be rescued by the heroes, and be desired, and possibly ending up with one of the two main male characters. That´s it.

Even though she tried to demonstrate that she was a powerful girl, she even ends up as a sex slave of Jabba the Hutt, in the third movie, Return of the Jedi, which have scenes that, even though they are not explicit in any way, we may not ever see in another movie of this politically correct era ever again.

The second trilogy began in 1999, and it was already a bit different. We had a lot more of diversity in the roles, and a more powerful feminist character, even though, for the most part, she was still very much, another princess, with a very definite role, which was to be rescued, protected, and to be desired by the male protagonist, in this case, Anakin Skywalker.

In this third trilogy, we have a girl who IS the protagonist, with maybe exchanging places with Finn between protagonist and deuteragonist for parts of the movie. She doesn't appear to have force powers or to be a Jedi, which are the crowning protagonists of the Star Wars sagas, but she is very much a protagonist. Her character is not a princess to be rescued anymore, she gets prominence in the trailers and she is fighting side by side with the main characters, even though she is not brandishing a lightsaber as of yet.

She is definitely a female character of this day and age, where women refuse to be the prize of the male protagonists only. They want to be side by side to them, not being sought after or being rescued. Women nowadays demand that. Mothers out there demand that. They want to show this to their daughters. And on and on. Take a look at another Disney blockbuster of last year, Frozen. Frozen was made entirely to women. The male characters in that movie are all of them a bunch of caricatures, from the buff, funny, gross and stupid, to the coward, to the villain. None of them are good or valuable, with maybe the exception of the father of the two girls (girls and their father complex, go figure). The movie is entirely focused to women. There´s no lion king here, there´s no lovable thief who ends up saving the day. No, the movie is entirely an ode to women and feminism.

And this goes to this year's SW as well. Girls refuse in this culture to be seen as prizes, even though they clearly still are. Unless her character is extremely unnappealing, boys will still be looking at the main protagonist desiring her, and she will still be sought after to some degree by either a character or the audience.

It´s like women suddenly decided that they don't want to be seen as women anymore, which is kinda ludicrous to me, and one of the reasons I find this all pretty damn stupid.

Whether you agree with the way things are going or not, thing is, this is how they are now. The world has changed indeed.