In here, Iâm afraid I wouldnât know any.
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How did Helen Kellerâs parents punish her?
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I know 2 Helen Keller Jokes.
The answer to yours is rearrange the furniture
I was gonna say put door knobs on the walls.
Iâm guessing the other you know is how many hands does Helen Keller need to masturbate?
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No, but Iâm intrugued?
Edit, I think i worked it outâŠ
Two. Sheâs gotta have one to moan
but what was the other you knew 
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I now know the best way to learn a new coding language when your professor wonât teach you.
Wait until the day the assignment is due, and do it.
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Ah, the age old mantra: â'Due tomorrow means do tomorrowâ
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Okay hereâs a third one: What does HK say when you put a piece of sandpaper in her hands?
At first, nothing - she has a piece of sandpaper in her hands.
Then she throws the sandpaper and signs back at ya: âGod I hate small printâŠâ
Incidentally, Iâm genuinely surprised not one of the thought police has intervened to ramble on about respect for the disabled yetâŠ
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The big difference between the thought police and someone with emotional intelligence is that the thought police force you to change the way you think/talk/act. The empathetic person only has as much power over you as you give them by internalizing their critique.
How did Hellen Keller navigate her way out of this thread?
She olfactolocated away from the smell of toxic masculinity.
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I relate so hard to that⊠just replace teacher with manager⊠
The nice empathetic person doesnât forcibly shut you up, they wear you down until you do it all by yourself because youâre so damn tired of the endless bromide. Itâs even worse.
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Okay, risking to touch a dangerous topic again⊠but hey, itâs the Dangerous Things forum, so, where else can I do it? 
I donât get the whole concept of âtoxic masculinityâ. Is it just all negative traits associated with classical machismo? Isnât that inherently sexist? Like, if Iâd say something about âtoxic femininityâ and put things under that label like being hypersensitive, hysterical, superficial, bitchy, whatever - many women, myself included, would jump up and say âhey, thatâs not fair, this is not typically female at all!â. But to say that being harsh, unfriendly, sexist and misogynist is âtoxic masculinityâ is okay? Hell, why canât we just say someone is an asshole, no matter what gender he/she/it/whatever has?
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If I may butt in, in a gender neutral world that would be the case, where people can finally get past societal roles. Unfortunately itâs not, so I find toxic masculinity is pertaining to aspects of people trying to be âmanlyâ (in the vaguest, old fashioned sense), often to the extent where it can hurt others, and hurt themselves. There are times where sensitivity and discretion are needed, and people who are typically toxic masculine wouldnât want to/wonât read the situation. Being able to show emotions, and share emotionally vulnerable states, falls under this category as well.
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I get that⊠but it still feels a bit wrong. I mean, being an asshole is not manly at all, I think - and what about those âold-fashionedâ men who are just behaving like old-fashioned gentlemen? I actually like that
Before the term âtoxic masculinityâ was coined, people who behaved massively insensitive, harsh, bragging around and all that were simply called idiots, assholes, whatever - it wasnât tied to their masculinity, because it had nothing to do with that. I mean, they behaved that way to make it look like they were very masculine, but they actually werenât, and everyone knew that⊠By attributing this asshole-behaviour to masculinity, I really think men are treated worse than they deserve, and that is just what is always critizised - it is sexist.
And again - would anyone be okay with calling something âtoxic femininityâ? And what would that be? And wouldnât anyone using that term be tarred and featherd because of sexism?
And - donât get me wrong, but I donât think such a world will ever exist. And I would never ever want to live in one, because I like the differences between the genders. Dynamic exists because of differences, and I am happy that I am able to choose between a man, a woman or anything else (given itâs human!) when Iâm looking for someone to enjoy my time with.
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Heck yeah treating people with respect will always be in fashion, but toxic masculinity isnât just about being an a-hole. Personally I find it the part where emotions are suppressed, either by expectation of society, friends, or by self. Mind you, there are many ways of doing so. One possibility is where serious conversations are joked about and belittled, and thus not being able to solve underlying issues, causing mental health problems like depression and suicidal thoughts. Which we can see with men having higher rates of suicide than women.
I certainly agree, but wouldnât it be nice where things arenât assumed of you just because of your (presumed) gender? Sex is a whole different matter entirely.
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That is a big problem, yes, but I see this happen with men and women alike - I have male friends who are very open with their emotions, and female ones who suppress them a lot, and vice versa. Thatâs why I think the term of toxic masculinity is just wrong, because women may just behave in the same way - how would one call that? And what about all the men who donât behave that way, and still, this behaviour is somehow attributed to their gender?
Hm, kinda⊠nope. Maybe I have just too few problems with my gender, but I do not care a lot. People thought I was stupid, because I was a woman - I proved them wrong. People thought I was bad at gaming, because I was a woman - I proved them wrong. People thought I was good at cooking, and I proved them wrong, too
We all run around the world with prejudices in our heads, be it because of the gender, the origin, the clothing style, the amount of bodmods, the hair colour, whatever. I have some of them in my head, and other people might have others. Thatâs no problem for me, for I either donât care about other peopleâs opinion (like, those Iâll never meet again), or I can prove them wrong. Itâs totally okay to have those prejudices of all kind, as long as you are willing to open up your mind and adjust your opinion, if needed.
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The logical outcome of this sentence is unclear:
- Did you prove that there was no correlation between gender and intelligence?
- Did you prove that youâre intelligent or stupid despite being a woman?
- Did you prove that youâre intelligent because youâre a woman?
- Did you prove that youâre a man?
Iâm so confusedâŠ
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