LanguageIsCool @ LanguageIsCool @lemmy.world

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How much do you know about feminism?

It’s not. Have you read much on it?

Source? You’re speaking with a lot of authority here and I’m not sure you fully know what you’re talking about. What you seem to be calling anti-sexism is often called intersectional feminism.

The comment thread I replied to didn’t start with feminism but with fears of being seen as a misogynist when bringing up OP’s points. This naturally led to a conversation about feminism being a movement that aims to abolish this kind of thing.

I’m replying to a comment about feminism, moron.

I don’t like being associated with anti-racism for a single reason - not everyone agrees that both black and white people suffer, and the blame is often shifted on white people as “carriers of systemic racism”. Besides, it is originally about black people fighting for their rights, not white people, and at any point in time black people can note that it’s for and about black people, effectively shaking off the very white people who promoted it - and to some degree, they will be correct.

We can do better by building a wider anti-racist community. At the end of the day, all we want, as long as we act in good faith, is for everyone to be equal in their rights and opportunities. Black people face racism. White people face racism. Some of it stems from systemic racism, some of it might come from other angles. We should come together not under the banner of Black Lives Matter, not under the banner of White Lives Matter, but from the neutral ground if we ever hope to achieve a society that treats #AllLives as equals.

This is how these comments come across to me.

There’s a power imbalance. Feminism is about bringing women up and redistributing the power.

Men should be able to talk about their issues. And I feel like they usually are. It’s not a problem.

It’s a problem when it’s done to hijack a conversation about women. Or when it’s done without awareness of the history of the power imbalance.

A lot of it isn’t to be taken personally and if it is, I think that says something about you. When I hear blame and anger towards privileged groups that I’m a part of, even if I suffer too, my gut reaction is never “but…”

I understand that these movements are reactions to the power, the history, and the general picture.

On the other hand, we could refine time zones so they’re continuous instead of discrete chunks. Then every step you take adjusts the time. Would be more “accurate.”

Wouldja look at that. It’s 4pm. Time to start getting ready.

Pay em a buck

That’s why I sleep with a hippo net around my bed

Some people here have never sucked a dick and it shows

Why ask when you can find out?

Entropy giveth and entropy taketh away

Like he said that the good parts of the economy are because of him and the bad parts are because of Biden.

Nope. I wish. I try not to own a lot of stuff because I might move again eventually. Maybe there’s a good way to do it simply and temporarily. But I’ve scored living situations in places with gardens and fruit trees.

Not really, actually. I live somewhat frugally. And when I say “travel” I usually mean very low cost traveling involving lots of camping.

I’ve done this for the past several years. Not on purpose. I keep telling myself I’ll settle down.

I got a new job a year ago. It looked promising and I was ready to make a life here. But I don’t see myself in it. Leaving soon. Saved enough for modest living and adventurous cheapish traveling for at least a year.

Before that job I was mostly on the road for a year and a half, with some temporary odd jobs here and there.

It has its pros and cons. It’s exciting and adventurous. Sometimes it’s intense. I basically have no retirement savings. Super hard to find a partner.

It’s beautiful. Thank goodness, otherwise I would have probably gotten Paris syndrome on my trip.

Paris syndrome is a sense of extreme disappointment exhibited by some individuals when visiting Paris, who feel that the city does not live up to their expectations.

I like it. Many agree that YYYY-MM-DD is superior. It also reflects informational entropy. Each additional piece of information narrows down the search space most efficiently.

But in normal conversation, chances are we’re talking about the current year. So it makes sense to skip the year, or save it for last.

Word by word, if someone says the month first, I’m already able to know roughly when this date is. Then the information is hammered out with the day.

If someone says the day first, it barely helps — could literally be in any month of the year. It leaves too much unknown until the next piece of information is received.

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