Notices by GalacticTurtle (galacticturtle@spinster.xyz), page 6
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@DoctorDee I do wonder how anything ever got done with dudes throwing a fit to the finish line. The first few people I worked for were definitely like that but even if that hadn't been the case I'm not sure why behaving that way would be anyone's default mode. Would be interesting to get a historical record of workplace culture to see how it all got this way to begin with.
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Mood.
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@susansiens To be fair, I've never once encountered any American who had anything genuinely nice and relevant to say about Putin. In fact, to do so would strike me as extremely out of character. I figured the sentiment was mutual. US/Russia relations are the longest and most threateningly lethal dick-measuring contest to ever exist in the history of humanity. That's why dudes get all hot and bothered whenever the US President has to shake the guy's hand. So much analysis of the handshake and body language to see who established dominance over the other. XD
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@Fullycaffeinated @Piss_Ant @ninapaley The only place that wasn't a complete bore was Kingston. There seemed to be some type of military base right in the center of town and I contemplated sneaking in and causing an international incident.
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@Fullycaffeinated @Piss_Ant @ninapaley My memory was right then! I was also impressed by the architecture whereas places like Vancouver, Toronto, and I think even Montreal all have these hideous identical modern high rises that are all made of glass. Though I think the most aesthetically tragic place was Oshawa.
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@Piss_Ant @ninapaley I'll enlist in the misgendering infantry. I'll shout vile pronouns. And maybe some vile adjectives and adverbs too. Remind me to bring a bucket to bring some Canadian water back with me.
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@Fullycaffeinated @Piss_Ant @ninapaley I've been there! To Montreal at least. Done concerts there twice. Canada remains uncool but Montreal was less uncool than Ontario where I've explored quite a bit. If only they had the ONRoute rest stops.
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@Piss_Ant @ninapaley I figure the breaking point will be when Trump becomes president again, goes to Canada, and misgenders a politician's non-binary daughter.
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@Piss_Ant @ninapaley I can't wait for the US to become the industrial wasteland of Canada.
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@Piss_Ant Well y'all still might win this soccer game since the US team has some primary people out on red cards due to the above average animosity that unfolded in the US vs. Mexico game a few days ago lol. These men be so emotional.
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So much Canada in my life today. Watched the Formula 1 race in Montreal and now this US vs. Canada soccer game.
Canada is very uncool.
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The way people talk about the lgbtqia++++ acronym you’d think having 50 people officially recognizing you as alphabet worthy gets you a free lifetime gym membership or something.
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@Piss_Ant My school changed the uniform from skirts to skorts because I guess for the first time in its almost 200 year history it was my generation who couldn't go a whole recess without flashing the world while doing acrobatics.
Naturally, we're all men now.
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@hearthmoon Silly rabbit, words don't have meaning! You might think an asexual person is someone who has no sexual inclinations, but that's a very bigoted and borderline fascist thing to say. Asexual people can like sex just as much as everyone else, they're just not really attracted to the person most of the time. That's why you shouldn't judge asexual people who start an OnlyFans page or prostitute themselves. They're extra good at that because they don't care! And just like most people in general watch porn, most asexuals do too.
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Happy pride month. Spending the first day arguing with a bunch of asexuals why porn is bad.
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@hearthmoon I should mention that among the classic asexuals - the ones that seemingly never developed any sense of sexuality, who are doing what they've always been doing... which is nothing... any classic asexual who has an issue with the term being more inclusive of people who aren't asexual have more or less been banned from the internet starting from around 2008. It's really a numbers game. Most people do have sexual inclinations, so if they flood a forum with a small number of people who don't, there's really nothing that can be done.
Imagine all the stuff that has been done to the word "lesbian" but it happening before most people even knew what a lesbian was supposed to be.
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Midnight rant.
For the "feminism hates mothers" crowd, I am wondering what exactly they would like feminism to do. I feel like most concrete feminist political activism has aimed to make marriage and motherhood less of a bear trap for women and... more of a... humane mouse trap.
Or is the attitude I just exhibited there the issue? They want marriage and motherhood to be promoted to future generations of women, by feminists (because the world at large already does), rather than alternatives like developing a support structure of other women?
Or would they like feminism to focus on women who are not given a choice and... get on a plane and go do some aggressive liberating? Or would they like feminists to make their husbands treat them better? Drop feminism altogether and say "oops we made a mistake" then turn back the clock 50 years?
I just never know how to respond to that statement. I should go check out some KJK stuff cause I'm pretty sure that's one of the main issues she's looking to correct through her work. Letting women speak. Speak about how they feel dehumanized by wider society even after they follow every word of the script, get married, have kids, and they're still treated like dirt and trying to get that to change is like screaming at a brick wall?
One day the accusation is that single and childless women have no money and will be miserable until they die. The next day the accusation is that single and childless women are members of the privileged elite that couldn't define "struggle" even if you gave them a dictionary.
All of this just seems... so distracting. And I don't know what to make of it. But if I ever get on my soap box of female community and companionship, someone gets offended by a hypothetical living situation they'd never move into in the first place because I say "I don't invite men into my house."
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I get confused when I encounter people who are seemingly obsessed with viewing the world through this masc/femme and top/bottom situation. To me, this all reeks of maleness. It's like viewing the world through a lens of constant subjugation and I'm not sure why women in particular would want to do that. Am I misunderstanding something?
For example, it would never occur to me to refer to myself as "masculine" or "feminine." That is the doctrine of men. I am a human female. A woman. And the characteristics assigned to women - absent the rule of men - only go as far as descriptors of my sex. Not my clothes, hobbies, or occupation.
If I were to partake in sexual relationships, I'm also not sure why I'd contextualize that as a power differential. Just as I would never view my friendships as a relationship of dominance and submission, I would not do that with a partner. And the reason I seek out men for neither is because... that's what they do. This is the world they made. I'm tossed into an arena for a game I did not agree to play.
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If a white man doing something to a black woman bothers you but a white man doing the same thing to a white woman doesn't then congrats, you see the humanity of neither woman, and it shows that both effectively remain the de facto property of their same-race male counterparts.
All this kink or whatever discourse rots my brain and I'm not even looking for it.
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@Aflowernamedyou @ChasingWaterfalls I wouldn't say all this started with Taylor Swift, though her tour certainly brought the issue back into the spotlight. A few bands have spoken up against LiveNation in the past. One as a result is banned from all their venues... and they've cannibalised most notable venues in every town in the US. Now LiveNation owns the scalping sites. It's really quite spectacular. They own primary sales, secondary sales, the venues, the booking agents, the tour management, and even a lot of the artists. It's a monopoly that many in the music business have wanted broken up since the merger with TicketMaster.
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