Yea a lot of things are political that normies don’t consider to be, “non political” in the liberal sense of the term I guess, especially if they’re just trying to avoid communist posting
Yeah I feel like it's mostly a cultural thing. In the past, women were discouraged (and at a certain point not allowed) from playing chess, so it's always been a male dominated hobby
In general, women tend to be reluctant to get into male dominated interests and occupations when there isn't a welcoming, large enough space for them (e.g. depending on gender roles and expectations, some countries have mostly male doctors, some have an equal amount of male/female doctors, and some have mostly female doctors). So there isn't exactly a large enough pool of women who care enough to really get into chess and make achievements in it. it's also just, kind of a boring hobby to get into imo
Ah yes, we should liberate women by restricting their freedom to wear what they want to wear
the western white knight is here to let Muslim women know they don't know what they're doing because they're small-minded and brainwashed
Also, weird how you bring up burqas under an article that doesn't mention burqas. And you make it sound like only far-leftists are against a burqa ban when most liberals/moderates tend to be too.
Ok I didn't see that thread because I tend to look over some posts. I still think drawing attention to a post isn't fully the same when we're all one giant community of communities. I feel like you're being a little over reactive to some terminally online people being argumentative and annoying you a bit. Maybe it is sort of a brigade tho.
you're turning on your peers, whilst patting yourself on the back for being inclusive
Respectfully I feel like you're doing this right now, wanting to separate from other trans folks just because the vocality of their beliefs is annoying you and a few of the people in this thread were rude. Unfortunately stuff like this is gonna happen if someone makes a post specifically about us, but in no other cases have we gone around dominating blahaj posts. I also don't see how we're "disrupting a safe and inclusive space" by giving our takes.
I'm sorry but I don't understand how commenting under a post from an instance we're federated with is considered brigading. It's not like we're posting about/linking to a separate space to infiltrate. Our communities are under the same umbrella, so this just shows up in our feed.
Are people from hexbear jumping into a discussion that should maybe primarily be reserved for blahaj? Maybe, but I think people just want to offer our side of things, and we honestly just don't want the two biggest queer spaces in the fediverse breaking up because we're often edgy and argumentative/passionate about leftist beliefs.
I also don't think we're derailing from anything or preventing you from having a defederation conservation among yourselves just because we leave replies.
(some) Americans are so self-important when they mention states being the same size as other peoples' countries lmao. "Why should we have to point to Germany on a map if Germans can't even point to le bigger Montana?
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It's like, do they feel the same about knowing other big countries' internal divisions? Canadian provinces? Russian federal subjects? Brazilian states? Chinese provinces? Australian states? Cuz the average subdivision in all those countries is larger than the average US state.
And people usually know the most important ones, anyways (Cali, Texas, Florida, NY)
In high school, I dm'd a guy in my class "you're handsome bro"
His response was something like, "you too man I appreciate it!"
We both assumed each other were straight after that, but like a week before graduation, he randomly tells me he had a crush on me. And when I tell him I felt the same, he was like "damn I assumed that DM was probably only a compliment"
I love how some of the opening lines talks about interviewing a single Chinese person failing to run a business
One entrepreneur interviewed by The Wall Street Journal said that one of his businesses, a distributor for LED screens based in Shenzhen, is suffering from widening losses as overseas orders dry up, leading him to slash prices to compete for domestic clients. Having laid off more than 50 out of 120 staff since 2022, he said he is contemplating whether to shut the business this year.
I think probably everyone under like 35 knows Megan Thee Stallion, she's super famous
Tory Lanez was relatively pretty big for a while and probably pretty recognizable if you like r&b or hip-hop. He has collabs with Future, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown, Snoop Dogg, G-Eazy, Kodack Black, Selena Gomez, Soulja Boy, DaBaby, Jack Harlow and Trippie Redd
Yea a lot of things are political that normies don’t consider to be, “non political” in the liberal sense of the term I guess, especially if they’re just trying to avoid communist posting