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Just found a fragment on the ground. ill use this to construct a larger whole😎😎😎

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there's this phenomenon i've noticed on youtube which i dub "man math" which is when men STEM-ify hobbies/activities/art forms in order to make them more masculine. it's very noticeable in the cooking video sphere where there's an endless stream of videos made by men along the lines of "the SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN best way to cook an egg" (and dgmw, i watch them and find them helpful, but the observation stands), but i notice it also in the way men approach ceramics (a lot of focus on mold-making and slip-casting to perfection, basically reinventing one man mass-production rather than play and discovery), tailoring/sewing/knitting/textile art, gardening and other nature-oriented hobbies, interior decor, furniture making and woodworking, journaling/planning/productivity, even drawing and painting, there's always some man math angle to it that although interesting it often strikes me as some sort of overcompensation to move away from the inherent vulnerability that comes with art making and once you notice it it's literally everywhere

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It's always been a thing but it got real crazy in the late teens with the sourbros, half of whom were doing actual science and engineering (getting their starters sequenced, building starter, rising, and proofing containers with cameras, thermostats, and humidistats) and the other half of whom were like "if your hydration is under 120 are you even making sourdough?" I did a loaf at 180 check it out (photo of a dry balloon with a few strands of glassy paste inside).

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STEMifying is a useful shorthand but what's actually happening is "turning the pursuit of knowledge about a skill into an act of domination and control".

It's less about turning into math and more about a fashy worldview that holds up all knowledge and skillsets as a competition for dominance.

#prev YES I was trying to articulate what it is that bothers me about this tendency and that's it#the idea that there IS EVEN a “best” way to do something inherently subjective or a way to be the best at it#and that that's the part that makes it worth doing... it's exhausting when you're in these communities for fun & expression

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