Stannous Flouride's Book of Truthiness

Psychologists have found that sexism is bad for men, too. Take a second to recover from this shocking news: Views and beliefs that oppress more than half of the population can be harmful to the people who hold them.

Recovered? Okay, let’s continue.

In the last three decades, social scientists and the broader public have examined the concept of toxic masculinity, focusing on traditionally male attributes that many have come to see as harmful not only to women, but also to men and the fabric of society.

Scholars have not sought to demonize men or maleness, but to highlight the ways in which conforming to traditionally masculine qualities like dominance, self-reliance, and competitiveness could be harmful to men and the people around them.

In a meta-analysis of 78 studies, comprising 19,453 participants, researchers at Indiana University Bloomington and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore found modest but negative associations between a number of masculine norms and mental health outcomes. These “masculine” social norms included the desire to win, the need for emotional control, risk-taking behavior, violence, dominance, sexual promiscuity, self-reliance, high importance placed on one’s job, power over women, disdain for homosexuality, and the pursuit of status.

The three norms that researchers found to have the most consistent negative effects on men’s mental health were self-reliance, pursuit of sexual promiscuity, and power over women. Y. Joel Wong of Indiana University Bloomington was not surprised by the results. “It’s not rocket science,” he tells Popular Science. “It’s something that’s been demonstrated over 20 years of research.”

The study is behind a paywall but here’s a synopsis: Sexism may be bad for men’s mental health | Popular Science

Proof that the Apfel doesn’t fall from the Baum

Like his anti-immigrant grandson, Friedrich Drumpf was a draft dodging coward. In these papers he pleads with Prince Luitpold of Bavaria to not deport him. His request was denied and we’re stuck with his grandson.

By Zach Cartwright of US Uncut

(the original Bild article is behind a pay wall)

An interesting, newly discovered piece of Trump family history puts a new spin on the President-elect’s plan to deport millions of people.

German tabloid newspaper Bild published the letter, which Trump’s grandfather Friedrich penned to Bavarian Prince Luitpold, who ruled over a segment of the United German Empire. In the letter, Friedrich Drumpf (later changed to Frederick Trump upon his arrival to the United States) begged Prince Luitpold to rescind a deportation order issued for Friedrich, due to his refusal to comply with mandatory military service.

According to the Washington Post, which analyzed and translated the letter, Friedrich wrote a “most subservient request” to the well-loved, noble, wise, and just” monarch asking him to give back the citizenship that was stripped from him in the late 1800s, after the elder Trump fled the country for the United States in order to dodge the draft in his home country.

Friedrich went West following the Gold Rush to operate several taverns and a brothel in Canada. An early twentieth century journalist wrote at the time, “I would not advise respectable women to go there to sleep as they are liable to hear that which would be repugnant to their feelings and uttered, too, by the depraved of their own sex.”

However, his wife, longing to resettle in her homeland, prompted Trump to move back to Bavaria in secret, where he and his wife lived until they were discovered by authorities. Trump then beseeched the government he fled to return his citizenship rights so he could reestablish himself in his hometown of Kallstadt.

“The American citizen and pensioner Friedrich Trump, currently residing in Kallstadt, is hereby informed that he is to depart the state of Bavaria, or face deportation,” Bavarian authorities wrote in response to Trump’s request.

Oddly, Donald Trump is following in his father’s footsteps, having taken extraneous steps to get out of military service himself. During the Vietnam War, the current chicken shit President-elect successfully deferred his draft order on four separate occasions due to his college enrollment, and was declared medically unfit to serve after he graduated, according to his draft document.

He claimed he had ‘heel bone spurs’ even though they did not keep him from playing squash, football, golf, and tennis in college and that he described in a 2016 interview as ‘a minor malady’ before lying about having a “phenomenal” draft number (18 months before the lottery began) My draft number was 17.

Frederick Trump lived out the rest of his life in the United States following his deportation until his death in Queens, New York in 1918.

As of this writing, President-elect Trump has not mentioned the cruel irony behind his plans to deport millions of immigrants in comparison to his grandfather’s plight in Bavaria.

Source: This letter shows how Trump’s grandfather begged Germany not to deport him

Angela Nikolau is a rooftopper from Moscow who likes to take photos and selfies standing or even lying on the edge of a skyscraper. Her photos are amazing but they send shivers down the spine.

And you just KNOW she and her boyfriend have made love in some insane places. You know, like THIS:

And here’s a few more butterfly-inducing images to go with hers: