Gift_of_Gab (they/them) @ gift_of_gab @lemmy.world

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My grandmother fought in the Dutch resistance, helped people who were Jewish escape, and was put in a camp. She died a few years ago. This is how that happened, too. And we're all watching. Even with americas vaunted 2nd amendment, Russian-backed fascists just walked in and took over, and everyone is just watching them. No riots, no fighting back, just passive resistance.

I wish all of you the best of luck. I'm going to go hug my kids.

If you start a sentence with “all men” then you should take a step back and say “fucked-up men” or suchlike, is all I’m saying.

No. Also in no example was that how anything started. I said women can talk about being victims of violence and men always do what you're doing right now.

Also side note at least according to the statistics over here in Germany partner violence, if psychological violence is taken into account, is almost exactly even among hetero couples and, in the overwhelming number of cases, mutual: Assholes hook up with assholes they just, statistically, express it differently. Things might very well look differently where you’re from, another reason to not generalise.

The current crime statistics analysis on intimate partner violence by the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA, 2024) shows that a total of 167.865 people were victims of intimate partner violence in 2023. This is an increase of 9.1% compared to 2022. 132.966 (79,2%) victims were female and 34.899 (20,8%) male.

The statistics recorded the following attempted or completed crimes:

• 59.1% intentional simple assault
• 24.6% threats, stalking, coercion
• 11.4% aggravated assault
• 2.6% rape, sexual coercion, sexual assaults
• 0.2% murder and manslaughter
• 2.1% other offences

The European Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) published the study “Violence against women. An EU-wide survey” in 2014. For this study, around 42,000 women between the ages of 18 and 74 were interviewed about their experiences with violence in the 28 member states. In Germany there were 1,534 women. Around one in three women said they had experienced physical and/or sexual violence at least once since they were 16 years old.

1/3 of German women had experienced physical and/or sexual violence. ONE THIRD.

Stop trying to make this something that's even between men and women. It isn't. You're giving these guys in my inbox furious about exactly the reason for my original fucking comment a green light to do this shit by hand-waving the reality women face.

If this is how Lemmy is going to be, I'm so thankful pixelfed is exploding in size because women deserve the goddamn break.

I'm curious how long it will be till this comment gets down votes.

People want to know you’re not literally ... trying to actively reinforce the toxic AF “women are always victims, men are always perpetrators” narrative etc, but it takes like five words to make that clear.

...

/face in hands

Okay I took a minute and I have to go through this with you.

People want to know you’re not literally Andrea Dworkin, trying to actively reinforce the toxic AF “women are always victims, men are always perpetrators” narrative etc, but it takes like five words to make that clear.

So just so I'm clear, all women have to make clear they don't think what Andrea Dworkin does (sigh), because all men aren't responsible for men as a group being, statistically, the perpetrators of rape, partner violence, etc?

Pixelfed is easily the most diverse “corner” of the Fediverse now. Fedi is very white but a large number coming over now aren’t. Pixelfed.social has probably gone from being 75% men to 75% women in the last few weeks. Diversity is the best possible thing for the social web.

This was a huge part of why I now spend more time over on pixelfed as opposed to here -- I have a few accounts I've used here, and every single time I'm in a thread about a woman who's been sexually assaulted, or about a woman's shelter, etc, the 'not all guys'/'men suffer too' bros come flooding in. I've logged out of accounts for weeks, switched to another one, just to let them scream into the void of my inbox for awhile, and it happens every time. I befriended a woman here when I responded to one of the most sad-to-read replies in one of those threads, that read like: "Women are often abused by men--not all men, just some, and I want to reiterate that this is about those specific men..." and it just went on and on trying to placate the inevitable furious white men in the comments section. As someone who lived as a white man for over forty years, I know just how whiny, sad, and ridiculous they look, and they they still get their way.

Over on pixelfed I haven't once had an interaction even close to that. It's extremely pleasant, people helping each other learn the platform, people asking for help in bad home situations, and it's a community. People have messaged me when I made mistakes linking things in extremely pleasant ways, and two people debated alt-text (is it helpful to those who use audio captions, or is it training AI?) without once insulting each other. Lemmy was very briefly that, yet there's a lot of tribalism that is not only unnecessary, and frankly, childish. I'm quite often embarrassed of my fellow men here.

(Well, non-binary now, yet I still feel the experiences of 40+ years of being a man are helpful.)

So anyway, I agree pixelfed is a lot more inviting, and a lot more diverse.

Sally Fo-! Sally Fo-! sally forth...

I'm so sorry you've lost him. Thank you for sharing your love of him with us <3

I thought this was aneurysm-posting for a minute.

I'm proud of you for escaping that. <3

🎶

Una mattina mi sono alzato

O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao

Una mattina mi sono alzato

E ho trovato l'invasor

O partigiano, portami via

O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao

O partigiano, portami via

Ché mi sento di morir

E se io muoio da partigiano

O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao

E se io muoio da partigiano

Tu mi devi seppellir

E seppellire lassù in montagna

O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao

E seppellire lassù in montagna

Sotto l'ombra di un bel fior

Tutte le genti che passeranno

O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao

E le genti che passeranno

Mi diranno: "Che bel fior"

E questo è il fiore del partigiano

O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao

Questo è il fiore del partigiano

Morto per la libertà

E questo è il fiore del partigiano

Morto per la libertà

🎶

When have you actually done something for the working class ??

I march in solidarity with striking union workers while the Conservatives in my area call for them to be ordered back to work.

Left aren’t any better, they have stallin apologists for one, in your quest to “give rights to minorities” you end up marginalizing the majority for two & three your open border policy causes massive economic damage

So I'm going to skip the obvious Russian talking points here (open border policy causes economic damage? What the fuck are you talking about? Stalin apologists--like Putin? He's not Left wing) and go straight to

"you end up marginalizing the majority"

No, you don't. One of the key socialist ideals is that when one person suffers, we all suffer. There are arguments about how to reach true equanimity, but until then just by being 'the standard' you are impossible to marginalize. Conservatism puts men first, especially in our movies:

Room temperature? Designed for middle aged white men.

If men are 'demonized,' why are only 8.2% of CEO's women? Why are abortions controlled, but not vasectomies?

I understand why you are saying these things though, people on 'the Right' fall for Russian propaganda far more than 'the Left' do:

I can't think of a single Conservative social talking point that would make them good people. You have to remember these are the same people who want to ban abortion, gay marriage, remove rights from minorities, and have 'in' and 'out' crowds. There's no 'good people' there. They may perform good actions, sure, but their belief system is entirely about stagnation and dogma.

If they didn't ask for it, and don't want it, it's not 'giving' the other person anything. This is how a lot of sexual assault works; the rapist tells the other person they're enjoying it and does things like this, and then goes 'well I did (whatever act) for them, so I'm the good guy here.' This idea that performing oral/touching the other person/etc without direct stimulation back is entirely about the person receiving is false, has always been false, and will continue to be false. This is dangerous ground we're on here, and we're better than this.

Seriously, the opening words are I want. I don't know how much more direct it would have to be here.

First time I get that remark…

Funny enough, growing up I got tired of hearing women complain ...

I believe this is when the kids say 'lol.'

The dude is actively offering to pleasure the girl

No, he's offering to do what he wants to do. It's not universal that women want that; it's not universal that women want anyone to do that; it's not universal that women want that specific person to do that. This is how we got rape in Revenge of the Nerds because a bunch of guys went "yeah but she liked it, right?"

the guy is willingly taking the longer route to the girls favours, by putting her pleasure ahead of his.

No he isn't, he wants to give her head. That's for his pleasure--he enjoys going down on women. Said women aren't fucking obligated to agree just because he's offering.

This is some incel-level shit here.

🎵 She caught the midnight train going o-ver her. 🎶

Good luck, my American siblings. I'm very afraid of what is going to happen.

I'm in Canada, and I do most of those things already, but this is great advice in general. I warn specifically about Measels because I have family who (thankfully, were) immune to the vaccine, so they'd get warnings from doctors like "we've seen a rise in people not vaccinating so... avoid bringing (my cousin) to large gatherings of people like concerts, and try to keep them in schools with higher vaccination rates." They're teenaged and were finally able to get the vaccine to work (I don't have the details, just that it worked) but my cousin missed seeing Raffi because some conservative fucks decided they didn't care enough about children dying to vaccinate theirs.