I’m glad you were able to rid yourself of those clearly toxic people.

I’m sorry that it took that event to figure out that they’re not worth having as friends.

I hope you are doing better after all of that.

Sincerely, ·some random dude on the Internet.

This is the way of things.

I’m not saying it’s right, just, or how it should be, but in my experience, yes, this.

It sounds depressing because it is.

I’m just saying: as a guy, this is not the only double standard, and not the only thing that people see as “you did it once so you’re $thing forever” that guys go through.

It’s probably one of the most notable though.

As men, we deal with a lot of judgemental shit and we’re expected to deal with it “like a man”… Whatever the fuck that means.

Another good example of this is crying. If you have a mental breakdown and fall into a crying fit, people will brand you as a cry baby or some shit, and that will stay with you for a long ass time.

There’s so much more. I don’t have time to think of, nor detail any of it. Any fellas that have examples, I invite you too add them in reply. Ladies, you can too. And anyone else can, honestly; let’s not forget our non-binary family.

I’m pretty sure it’s still hip to be cool though.

This is exactly what I’m thinking.

Thank you.

I came up with an analogy for vaccines that I’m thinking might actually penetrate the think skulls of some of these motherfuckers. If you agree, please feel free to use it… It goes like this:

When soldiers are preparing for their life in the service, what do they do? Stand around with their thumbs in their asses waiting for an enemy to attack? No. They train. They train day and night. They train until they have all of the maneuvers and tactics burned into their brains.

They use guns and tanks to defend.

So for defense, most would agree that the soldiers doing the fighting need two main things: training and equipment.

This is the same for your immune system. The equipment that your body needs to mount a good defence comes in the form of vitamins, minerals, and most importantly, calories to keep everything operating as good as it can.

Vaccines are the other side of that equation. They’re the training regimen for your immune system. It’s the practice run before going into a live-fire situation.

Vaccines, in and of themselves, can’t do shit to stop you from getting an infection, or a disease. That’s not what vaccines do. They only train the soldiers of your immune system to recognize and effectively attack the enemy. Without them, your immune system soldiers will take longer to react to a threat because it will simply take longer to recognise it and attack/eliminate it.

That’s it.

600 degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit?

I’m not sure it matters, bluntly.