Lauren McCluskey did everything she was told to do. She still died. She was a 21-year-old University of Utah track athlete and honors student. In October 2018 she briefly dated Melvin Shawn Rowland. When she discovered he had lied about his age and identity and was a registered sex offender on parole, she ended it. The harassment continued. He threatened to release intimate photos unless she paid him. She reported the extortion and harassment to campus police multiple times, handed over messages and the photos as evidence, and asked for help. Days before she was killed, an officer assigned to her case, Miguel Deras, displayed those private photographs to at least three male coworkers. An independent Utah Department of Public Safety investigation later found the displays were not for legitimate investigative purposes. Officers made unprofessional comments; one account described Deras saying he could look at the images whenever he wanted. The university only learned of the misconduct after media reporting, well after her death. On the evening of October 22, 2018, Lauren was walking back toward her dorm while on the phone with her mother. Her mother heard her scream. Rowland confronted her in a campus parking lot, forced her into a vehicle, and shot her multiple times. Officers located her after her father called, but she was already dead. Rowland later died by suicide as police closed in. Subsequent reviews documented serious failures in how university police handled her reports—delays, failure to properly check his status as a parolee and sex offender, and an overall minimization of the threat. In 2020 the University of Utah settled with her family for $13.5 million ($10.5 million to the parents and $3 million to the Lauren McCluskey Foundation). The university publicly acknowledged that it had failed her and that her death was preventable. Her family has continued advocacy through the foundation and Lauren’s Promise, an effort focused on campus safety and supporting victims. Eight years later she would be 29. Instead, her parents and those who knew her are left marking the life she never got to finish. When someone repeatedly reports stalking, harassment, and extortion and provides evidence, should law enforcement be required to take stronger protective steps before the situation escalates? Lauren followed the advice victims are routinely given. She reported it. She supplied proof. She asked for help. It was not enough. 💔

91.4% of anxious thoughts never come true.

Aristotle agrees with Plato on the optimal age gap:

It is important to remember that for all the ways feminism has gone insane, it was rooted in a genuine and reasonable grievance: submitting to a man to become a wife and mother is an extreme risk and requires taking a bet a decade in advance on him and hoping it works out. It is basically like going all in on some microcap alt coin and then quitting your job to shill the devs full time, and then if it doesn't moon your life is over. Once women had the option to just become employim instead, it didn't take a lot of convincing to get them to switch teams.

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Look, I'm a former escort AND slut Men straight up cannot get hard if they think you're not into it Men hesitate mid-sex if they suspect you so much as winced I promise my sample size is higher than yours, and no, most men are not into sex a woman doesn't want I am not here for women who pretend most men are passive-aggressive predators, cuz they're not

Blondes, on average, have the highest IQs among white women, meaning the "dumb blonde" stereotype is completely wrong. Or maybe blondes (not all blondes, of course) are pretending to be dumb for the sake of signaling—"I'm so pretty, I can get away with being a ditz."

Boys seem to nearly universally - usually in their early teenage years - experience something that breaks their hearts in such a specific way as to emotionally cauterize them. So many of them go from being sweet little guys to internally numbed, externally nonchalant performers.

Overheard a couple in their late 20s having an intense argument at an airport lounge yesterday. They have $60,000 saved up between them. The guy wants to put $50,000 toward a down payment on a duplex to lock in housing security before starting a family, and spend $10,000 on an intimate backyard wedding with close friends and family. She refused: “I am only getting married once. A $10,000 wedding looks cheap on social media, and I’m not serving tacos in someone’s lawn. We need a proper venue, videographer, and open bar for 150 guests. We can rent for another two years.” He looked completely exhausted: “You want us to burn four years of combined savings on an 8-hour party to impress people we talk to twice a year?” Her reply: “If you loved me, you wouldn't make me negotiate down the one day I’ve dreamed about since I was eight.” Rent for 2 more years to give her the dream wedding, or is this an immediate dealbreaker?

Men rate blonde women highest, while women rate brunette men highest. Women with lighter hair rated light brown hair higher, and women with darker hair preferred dark brown.

Women are attracted to men who are smarter than them. The average woman is retarded so an illiterate drug dealer still works.

This is the horror men dare not admit, or none would ever marry again, and none would ever sleep again. For they can only ever be instrumental and fantastical to the women they love. There is no true or untrue, no objective reality, because she is a creature of the subjunctive. She lives in the world of the possible, the hypothetical, the wished-for and the never-was, the maybe, the almost, the oft-wondered and the yearned-for. Wherever you are, she is not, and wherever she may be, you can never join her. She can do you no injury and thus may do as she pleases, because, to her, you simply are not there.

Men would be infinitely less dumbfounded by these types of scenarios if they understood that women evolved to subconsciously view men as their career, and not as a sacred eternal life companion. Any time they do anything to you in a relationship, just analogize it to your work and ask if you’d do the same. You’ll find the answer if usually yes. Cheating is nothing more than attending interviews before giving 2 weeks notice. Bodycount is just a white lie on a resume. Browsing tinder is as harmless as peeking at a job board while your boss is in his office. Now make no mistake, women can LOVE their jobs. They can appreciate their jobs. It might even be a dream job. Many women are perfectly content, and even if they weren’t, they don’t know anyone who’s hiring 30 year olds right now. You can and will find a lifer. But at the end of the day, it’s still a just job. And if an email from Google ever happened to magically materialize in her inbox, offering her 800k per year to sip smoothies and make day-in-my-life TikToks… Then I’m sorry bro, she really enjoyed her time working with you.

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Aristophanes on the perils of women in government: