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We're located at the Seast Female and we're located a male that sustains severe injuries.

He's been transported to a local hospital for treatment and currently in surgery.

Hello and welcome to season 6, episode 146 of Sword and Scale, a show that reveals that the worst monsters are very real.

So here's the thing. There's a lot of criticism out there. There's a lot of people pointing fingers at things and just wanting to be right.

And that's unfortunate because everyone's an asshole. Everyone's a piece of shit. You know it. Deep down. Just accept it. Move on.

So see ya on the Twitter. Bye.

It's a trope as old as time. A jealous man kills his love interest because if he can't have her, no one can.

It's fueled by this idea that all men are evil. All men are shit. Toxic masculinity is what they call it.

But no one can deny that in this day and age there is a general sense of entitlement growing. A sense that I deserve what I deserve.

And if I don't get it, then there's something wrong with the world. Young men these days are certainly not immune from falling into this way of thinking.

I'm sure by now you've heard the term in cell. It stands for involuntary celipid and is often used to describe usually a guy who can't get any for all intents and purposes.

Elliot Roger, who killed six people and injured 14 in Isle of Istica, California, and who we first talked about in episode 19 was a self-described in cell.

He put up video after video on YouTube about how no woman would sleep with him. So they would all have to pay.

Young men across this country, and seemingly more and more parts of the world at large, now hold these emotions as truths.

Their truths. Burning rage builds up when they feel like they aren't getting what they deserve, and they pitch a fit for lack of a better term.

To say that, it's quite childish immature behavior is an understatement. But in a world of other entitled people, the immaturity gets normalized and the entire idea gets lost in translation.

Blame it on the media, blame it on violence and entertainment, blame it on anything other than the new social era you're living in.

One in which helicopter parents ask, no, demand that their below-average child receive a participation trophy for every activity they engage in.

An era where no one is responsible for their own success or failure, no one ever needs to learn to fail, or the meaning of the word, no.

The generation that followed mine is probably the first generation to have grown up in this protected childhood environment.

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