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Can you name the actual feminist(s) which you're referring to..? You won't really see feminists doing feminist things if you're not going out of your way to participate in the feminist movement. I'm pretty sure most people's entire idea of "feminism" is youtube videos from 2015 complaining about dumb misandrists with colorful hair screaming "kill all men" or something.

Feminism isn't about "men bad, women good" or "women need to be more privileged in society", it's about minimizing or erasing gender norms/stereotypes, even if those perceptions sometimes benefit women. Gender/sexual equality is the point of the movement, it recognizes that women are favoured by the judicial system when it comes to cases related to violence & domestic disputes, and that society thinks that men should be big and strong and scary and that society shuns men who face problems in life or are wronged as "weak", and that young people (especially men) are lonely, and that women are unlikely to receive as much benefit from the same labour (e.g., promotions/raises, perceived expertise) compared to men, etc. etc.

And the movement recognizes that those problems are often mostly or entirely caused by fucked up perceptions about gender that our society has built over an inconceivably large amount of time, and that we still apply to the modern day, that women are weak and beautiful and pure and dumb and dependent and subordinate to men and nurturing and need to be protected, and that men are strong and smart and do all the dirty work and independent and providing and commanding and need to protect women. That women and men are treated certain ways in some areas and get certain privileges over the other because of the way society views the concept of/separation between "man" and "woman" (and pushes against the view or "neither man or woman") in the first place.

Too many people think, because of few reactionary misandrists being significantly more publicized than actual gender equality movements, that feminism is about "we need to make men 2nd-class citizens", rather than "these artificially constructed and inaccurate ideas of differences between men and women are harmful to society and cause us to force certain perceptions on people, making us be biased against a certain gender in many areas or shun those of a certain gender who don't fit into certain stereotypes". Also some people don't really care either way and want to be mad, but that happens with everything.

Another thing that is always spammed every time anything related to women's struggles or just general women's rights (even if feminism isn't mentioned) is "but what about men?" which is ignoring the entire point... we're in a collective struggle, we should talk about all of our issues, even gender issues, and not be out to try to 1-up each other every time one of the "other" groups have their issues talked about. And we can recognize that women often face issues men don't face as much, and men often face issues that women don't face as much, and we can recognize that often times the difference of magnitude of struggles based on gender is caused by the fact that society treats different genders so irrationally different in the first place.

Some want to throw away the concept of "feminism"/"gender & sexuality equality" and instead exclusively use "egalitarianism", but I think that's kind of just trying to detract from the issue and is as absurd as saying we shouldn't think about "racial equality" as its own concept either, and saying "women have all the rights men have, but they're just greedy and want more" is as dumb as saying "racial minorities have all the rights that white people have, but they're just greedy and want more". Also because of this exact idea the term "egalitarianism" is generally associated with libertarians which is just... eugh... no thanks.

BTW this is tangential to the topic, but when people say "toxic masculinity" or "patriarchy" the idea isn't that it's mens fault and everything would be so much better if they just drop their toxicity and masculinity. It's more generally referring to how historically, in societies where men were at the "top" of the social hierarchy, created were the perceptions that men are supposed to be a certain way, and that women are supposed to be a certain other way, based entirely around the most idolized men of the times having certain characteristics/powers that dictated their place in society. These ideas still, for the most part, persist to the modern day in an altered & tamer form, and they still affect how all of us who are raised in these cultures perceive gender identity. That's why it's said men are victims of "patriarchy" or "toxic masculinity" too, because modern gender perceptions/issues are tightly tied to where they originated, and those societal/governmental structures are still "here" in a very warped but slightly recognizable form.

okay there's NO WAY the person who wrote this ISN'T a closet homosexual who's trying to cope

Yeah nah it's theft. It doesn't matter how it's framed. In the middle ages and before, where what side of the border you lived on was pretty much irrelevant to your life, it'd make sense to think of it the way you are. But in the modern day, where taking land often means completely altering and destroying the lives of the people that live on it, forcibly removing it from them is theft. The implications that come from it being theft is a completely different conversation.

i imagined they'd spell it more like Käks. then i could have my Käsekäkse in peace. but to be fair i don't think i actually have seen any words spelled with -äks

can't wait to use templates and have the compiler spit out a 120 page autobiography

bisexual moment?

the lack of parent (and most pet) licenses is how we have so many people with long-term trauma or fucked up lives due to bad parenting... like 99% of people make terrible parents. imo you should at least have to pass a few courses related to parenting funded & certified by the government to possess children or pets, or even pass some sort of psychological examination. it's extremely important that people who aren't fit to parent don't have kids, that's how you end up with... the average first-world person now (humanity is in a terrible state right now so that's pretty bad). it is a "slippery slope" to government do bad thing, yeah, but that can be said of most restrictions and it's up to us as a society not to fuck that up.

that being said, our current society is NOT able to properly handle the responsibility of anything of the sorts, everything i said doesn't really apply with such corrupt and immoral governments where literal fascists have a fine time just waltzing in. and it probably won't ever apply unless we somehow purge all fascist scum from power and don't let them in again (not happening in this reality). at least in the US and some of Europe looking at how the governments are completely screwing child & potential parents' rights it gives a pretty clear idea of why it's a bad idea otherwise (gay couples can't even legally adopt in much of Europe, including Italy & Switzerland).

other ""french"" species are inferior and don't deserve mention

fuck i needed this

i got charged a few thousand (i think $3000?) for a regular ass MRI in Georgia. in italy the same thing would cost like €200-300 at most, probably less

not until we turn the kremlin into a pile of dust and bones. after that we can have all the transcontinental rail we want. except for to antarctica and oceania but fuck those guys

she's told her viewers to vote democrat and that she can't contain her political opinions any longer because republicans have gotten so fucked etc. etc., which blows up due to her being a celebrity woman that people like finding reasons to be controversial about

That's one of the important reasons that the far-right took over politics in Italy recently, the Italian right is very pro-Ukraine while the Italian left is anti-Ukraine for some godawful reason. Being pro-Ukraine alone got them a significant portion of votes the left would've gotten otherwise. Couple that with one of the primary issues in politics becoming LGBTQ rights, with (especially southern) Italy being largely very catholic and consequently anti-gay (in fact gay marriage is still illegal in Italy, you only have same-sex civil unions), and with the other primary issue being immigration (mostly as a guise for racism), the Italian public started voting very right-wing.

The fact that the left started infighting in Italy and were completely splintered at the time of elections spelled their doom. You can find a similar scenario in some other European countries in the past few years.

Now that the right is fucking basic shit up in Italy, a good amount of the public has slowly been starting to realize that they liked it way more when the leftists were in charge and making slow improvements, even if it wasn't perfect... but it isn't helping much to stop the rise of the right. Italy has always been aligned with highly conservative beliefs, it's common to miss the "good ol' days" when Mussolini was in charge and the economy was good, so it's the norm for politicians to openly say borderline fascist things (well now it's just flat out blatantly fascist speech).

lol wtf are you supposed to do about it, try to smuggle a bomb into the RNC? attempt to assassinate conservative politicians? or do you think you can just "democracy" your way to getting rid of this cancer? the first two sound like something that'd backfire in plenty of ways, and the last one is a laughable suggestion at this point.

The US doesn't have dissolution of congress, no

no pal world is not at all a pokémon-like game. the adventure aspect is idk what to call it, the only adventure really is finding new pals for the first time. it's kind of like ark with some inspirations from BOTW mechanics but you throw some pokemon in there

it does have a good variety of pals but honestly the only thing that feels unique is the appearances/sizes and sometimes the modifiers they have. the actual movesets don't feel very emphasized

in my opinion the actual pal vs pal combat is pretty lackluster, it's definitely not the focus of the game (although using slave labour is a focus of the game)

i mean the good part about it is the survival aspect. it's a pretty similar direction as ark except it's actually playable (unlike ark). and it deviates from some other games like valheim enough for it to feel like a unique experience

the enslavement is just a neat bonus

right now it already feels like it had a lot more player-experience effort put into it than many already popular games (and way more than pokémon if that's relevant lol), and even though it has some noticeable bugs and doesn't have as much content as you might want, it definitely is something that feels like it has a lot of growth ahead of it. the mechanics on their own set up a good foundation for new additions ahead

the main thing that bugs me about it is some quality of life things, probably the biggest being storage management/sorting (god damn it this happens in every game i play) & not as much automation as i'd expect. if they made it so you could, i don't know, link all your chests/storage nodes with some storage interface (maybe that pal computer that is already used for a lot of stuff), allowed you to assign which chests/chest slots pals can put which items in, allowed pals to take items from specific assigned chests to e.g. automatically craft certain proportions of items, etc. it'd make me want to play the game 100x as much. add a "factorio but with slaves" aspect to the game to appeal to a wider range of players, you know, even the minecraft redstoners might get in. basically adding a "storage & task management screen" would be sick

another thing is that i've found it really tedious to manage a large number of tasks/pals currently, which is why i mentioned "task management", it'd be cool if you could easily manipulate priority/necessity to certain tasks and stuff

overall though they just need to focus on ironing out the bugs and then adding more content to the world to make it feel actually rewarding/interesting to explore (i guess this basically just means add more lore to the world, because it is severely lacking in story), and it'll be an actually really worth-it game

In this context it's heavily implied "built" is used as "engineered/designed", in the same way I "build" a shitty engine for an app

no god please, i hate googling something and the first 12 results are all blogs that take forever to get to the point and then give a bad answer

i don't think i could live any longer if i didn't have "site:reddit.com" or "site:stackexchange.com" etc. to filter out most of the garbage

there's a point where who's responsible and who's a victim doesn't really matter to most people and survival against aggressors becomes more important than considering the philosophical/psychological implications

navigating through the complexity of the mind to determine who really "deserves" it is mostly just a lost cause, you get wacky results like concluding that the people in power are actually just victims of their own greed and human psychology, that the universe and therefore life is deterministic and no one is truly at fault for their actions, etc. etc. which could all be easily justified standpoints but are mostly irrelevant to our actual situations