This week, Clavicular, one of the biggest looksmaxxing streamers in the world, was charged with rape. Days earlier his best friend was seen on stream beating a woman and now faces charges of his own. As a psychiatrist, I want to talk about a question nobody in that community seems to be asking: what do the drugs these young men are taking do to the mind? Look at the stack Clavicular himself described to the New York Times. Testosterone and Anavar, hormonal drugs known for mood swings and irritability. Accutane, whose label's top warning covers depression, psychosis, suicidal behavior, and aggression. Retatrutide, a GLP-1 far stronger than Ozempic, with reported blunting and signals of suicidal thoughts in some studies. Then the drugs to manage the drugs: Adderall, a beta blocker, ketamine. He overdosed on GHB live on stream last year. To be clear: he is charged, not convicted, and I can't tell you what caused any specific event. But I can tell you what this pharmacology does in general: cocktails like this can make people erratic, impulsive, blunted, and disconnected, and these are being taken by teenagers and young men chasing a jawline. And here's my deeper problem with looksmaxxing. If it were sunlight, exercise, eating well, and dressing sharp, I'd cheer it on as one piece of becoming an attractive man. But the message is "your value is your face," and that's a mind virus. It leaves the "genetically unlucky" hopeless by design, and its own leaders admit it can send followers into body dysmorphia. The values worth maxing are the ones attainable by everyone: competence, wisdom, being useful, being good in your relationships. Those compound for life. A jawline doesn't. Comment Taper for my Free Safe Tapering Guide.

MAID opponents: "Society has to take away your choices to protect your dignity. So you need to put on diapers, drool on yourself, become completely dependent on your loved ones, and have your children remember you as an endless burden. Because dignity!" richardhanania.com/p/forced-…

A 37 year-old-man was told his blood condition meant he was about to die. His doctors had given up and suggested hospice. Then AI discovered a combination of drugs that put his disease in remission. It seems like we're underrating the possibility that more intelligence at our fingertips is just good.

RT @BumpDrunk: when lady gaga was 19 she was raped and left pregnant by a music producer. and now she’s 40, with a new born baby girl from…

One really important problem with Nikole Hannah-Jones's approach to and values about education are right there in her headline: She is "fighting for every black child." But there are no white parents who make their education decisions within a framework of "fighting for every white child" or Asian parents who are "fighting for every Asian child." Rather, members of these groups understand their kids as competing with other white or Asian children for scarce opportunities for social advancement. Whites and Asians are competing for those scarce opportunities with whites and Asians from all over the country, so no matter how well their kid may be performing relative to the local cohort, they always need to push harder, move faster and do and be more. In a setting where everyone is white and there are no race politics implicated, white people have absolutely no compunction about pulling the highest performers out of a class and putting them on a gifted track, and pulling the low performers out of the class and putting them on a special education track, and getting the discipline problems out of the classroom entirely. And then the special ed parents advocate for special ed, and the gifted parents advocate for gifted funding, because everybody is advocating for the resources they think their kid needs to compete against all the other kids. Hannah-Jones believes whites and Asians favor academic tracking and sorting through standardized testing and selective admissions primarily as a ploy to separate their groups from blacks and Latinos, because she perceives all of politics as being about groups that practice internal solidarity lobbying for collective benefits over other groups. She despises people who are not like her and limits her contact with them to the point that she does not understand them and has no theory of mind for them. She simply assumes they are a mirror of herself and therefore she assumes white people hate black people the way she hates white people. She thinks all the sorting of children whites and Asians do is actually a shell game that is just meant to keep people like her out. But the truth is, people like her aren't even part of the consideration, because kids like hers are not part of the competition. This has historically worked out fine for children like her daughter, because affirmative action has historically meant kids like hers have seats reserved and don't have to outperform whites and Asians for a spot. As long as her kid was doing well among her cohort, she could go to any college she wanted. That is now less true since SFFA. Najya perceived that the schools that weren't like hers were better than her school, and Nikole tries to blame that disparity on resources or on privilege or on systemic racism. But the truth is, it's about values and it's about the perception of school as a competition that brings about better outcomes. Nikole Hannah-Jones has a values system built around resentment and complacency. She doesn't think in terms of trying to beat an Asian kid on a math test, instead she dismisses the test as an inaccurate instrument steeped in racist assumptions. But then it turned out her kid really couldn't do math. And, like her daughter, she didn't learn anything.

Ladies where do you fall on the scale?

Me fascina la moral selectiva: llaman “explotación” a la decisión reproductiva de una mujer adulta, pero luego consumen productos y sustancias ilícitas cuyas cadenas pueden involucrar explotación, violencia y trata. Si vamos a hablar de ética, hablemos con rigor, no solo cuando sirve para linchar a una famosa como Lady Gaga.

That does not change the fact that she was consenting, that she wanted to do it, that she made the decision as a free adult, and that she did not do it out of a need for money—just like the majority of surrogate in the United States.

My babies surrogate mother told me out of her own mouth that it is her dream to be able to provide a family to those that can’t have one of their own…

If I wanted another child. I would definitely do it through surrogacy. And there’s nothing you can do about it. I’m not thinking about no bird on the internet regarding my family planning.

people in the quotes acting as if surrogate mothers are being held at gunpoint to carry other people's babies 😭

There are far more doctors who mutilated and butchered children than you think. Start with the most common type of mutilation, infant circumcision, then we can talk. #i2 #BornPerfect #HisBodyHisChoice #MenDoComplain #MCIsMGM

seeing surrogacy critics saying both “they should just adopt” and “children can’t be bought” in the same sentence

Surrogate: I'm okay with it Lady Gaga: I'm okay with it Michael Polansky : I'm okay with it United States of America: I'm okay with it Medical Community: I'm okay with it Elton John: I’m okay with it 70 years old gays in twitter: Lady Gaga can't use a surrogate

The surrogate: I consent The parents: I consent Twitter users: I don't

imagine being this pressed about how another woman chose to have her own child. you don’t have to agree with surrogacy, but the constant moralizing, assuming the surrogate was exploited, and acting like Gaga committed some unforgivable crime is fucking ridiculous. some of you need to log off and find something that actually brings you joy because this level of anger over somebody else’s reproductive choices is just sad.

Watching this cat have fun made my day 🥹

сравнение суррогатного материнства с торговлей детьми это какой-то очень тупой псиоп типа, родители «покупают» СВОЕГО ребёнка у женщины, которая не имеет никакого к нему отношения, кроме того, что выносила его? Охуенная логика братан, 10/10

“Toda transacción económica es un negocio, no algo consentido” Imagínate al que compra un tomate sin consentimiento. Y al que lo vende. Imagínate al odontólogo que te saca una muela sin consentimiento. Y al paciente que paga por ello. Igual de despropósito es todo su post.

“The hundreds of boys I have seen who needed surgery to repair problems caused by their #circumcision are real. The men who lost more parts of their penis than the foreskin are real. The thousands of adult men saying they wish they hadn’t been cut are real. Not recognizing that circumcision is harmful is either ignorance or denial.” Adrienne Carmack, M.D., urologist