atomicorange
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- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 5 days ago:
I can’t blame Nietzsche for what the Nazis did with his philosophical writings any more than I can blame Dworkin for TERFs. All I can ask of a philosopher is solid reasoning about interesting concepts. I won’t concede that the Nazis had solid reasoning though, their ideology was all over the place, self-contradictory, and self-serving.
Dworkin took a set of observations to their natural reasonable conclusions. I think her biggest philosophical “crime” is not recognizing that her conclusions don’t feel true for most women. For example: Yes, the way women are raised in our society makes consent a complicated topic. Yes, generally, sex without consent is rape. But the conclusion that sex in our society is rape doesn’t feel true. For me, that indicates something is missing. She’s got a problem caused by the language and our definitions of consent or of rape (maybe baggage about rape having an intent, a perpetrator and victim). I don’t think that makes her a hater of men, a bad actor, a bad philosopher, or someone not worth reading. There is a kernel of truth there worth examining even if the language makes the discussion more difficult than it needs to be. Forcing people to engage with her ideas because the conclusions are so shocking is a strength in my opinion. Just like Nietzsche saying “god is dead” got everyone freaking out in the 1800s.
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 5 days ago:
I can’t argue against your lived experience, but it doesn’t match mine at all. Maybe they’re all sick of dating irresponsible losers and this is some misguided screening technique? Good luck out there, it sounds like you’re having a difficult time finding someone you like!
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 5 days ago:
Hmm have you actually read anything by her? Her conclusions are unpleasant but her reasoning is rock fucking solid. I highly recommend watching This clip of a panel interview she takes part in to get a sense of her argumentation style. She feels completely honest and to me she seems disturbed and upset by the trends she has seen. And you can watch another male writer mean mug her the entire time, it’s honestly kind of hilarious how visibly pissed off he is. If you watch the entire interview you get to hear their exchanges too, fun to watch if you’ve got some time to kill. I thought she came across very well in an extremely hostile room, even if I think she’s ultimately missing some human element in her analysis.
Anyway, not the example I was hoping for, I think she’s a popular punching bag that is actually far more nuanced and interesting than people give her credit for, often because they haven’t actually interacted with any of her work.
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 6 days ago:
Could you specify one feminist text that you’d say is a good example of this hating on men and controlling women? This description doesn’t match what I’ve read but I’m interested to see if there’s a side of feminist thinking I’m not familiar with.
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 6 days ago:
Are you dating women your own age? I’m a woman in my early 40s and have literally never met a woman my age who thought like this. If you’re dating women ten years younger than you you’ll be selecting for the type who likes to date older men - usually for exactly the reasons you complain about (they want someone to take care of them).
- Comment on Mike Hardaker accuses Reddit of holding organic posting ‘hostage’ unless he buys ads, shares email screenshot 2 weeks ago:
One doesn’t explain copypasta, one is merely a vessel through which the copypasta flows
- Comment on I assigned myself one of these things but why do they exist? 2 weeks ago:
Go to their user page, click … menu in upper right, “edit user tag”.
- Comment on Nice horsie! 🐎 3 weeks ago:
Møøse bites kan be pretti nasti
- Comment on ‘Manfluencers’ are filming themselves trying to pick up women using smart glasses 3 weeks ago:
Not all men are dangerous just like not all snakes are venomous. Knowing that some are dangerous means that I will be cautious around all of them until I’ve determined if they are the safe kind or not. The price for being wrong and trusting the wrong guy is too high.
- Comment on Which is it?. 3 weeks ago:
Young and Asian.
- Comment on ‘Manfluencers’ are filming themselves trying to pick up women using smart glasses 4 weeks ago:
I would take “worse than a panda” as a compliment.
- Comment on Blizzard reportedly partnering with Arc Raiders owner Nexon to revive StarCraft as a shooter 4 weeks ago:
Let’s take everything the fans love about Starcraft and throw it away. Once we have a soulless aesthetic husk remaining we can slap it in to any piece of shit and count on nostalgia to bring in the buyers!
- Comment on Casual weeknight unwind 4 weeks ago:
Air injection holes for increased speed and performance.
- Comment on ‘Manfluencers’ are filming themselves trying to pick up women using smart glasses 4 weeks ago:
Do polar bears occupy habitat that could realistically be called “the woods”?
I always assumed this question was referring to a brown bear - black bears are pussies and polar bears are instadeath. Pandas are adorable, obviously better than meeting a man. Other species are unlikely for most english speaking people to meet in the woods. Brown bears are the only species that make this question interesting.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 4 weeks ago:
California is shoes on in my experience.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 4 weeks ago:
It’s regional in the US. I’m from Colorado, and it’s strictly shoes off here. I have family in California and those animals wear their shoes inside and it drives me crazy.
- Comment on Follow the rules! 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Be ungovernable 1 month ago:
More like “eventually… I will probably take a little rest halfway and make some sad sounds trying to manipulate you into carrying me”.
- Comment on science rules! 1 month ago:
Neil you idiot, you land in the blue where the water is DUH. You don’t want to crash!
- Comment on Be ungovernable 1 month ago:
I have an African Grey. She’s quiet and gentle and obsessed with climbing under blankets and she’s dumb as a rock. Truly a model specimen.
Here she is climbing the stairs one by one instead of flying.
- Comment on Heave-ho! 1 month ago:
And like 95% of the fun of having big old titties is getting to show a little cleavage if you want to. But the bras don’t want to let you wear anything more low cut than a t-shirt. Give me sexy bras I can wear under sexy clothes you jerks!!
- Comment on Who care about book 2 months ago:
Why word?
- Comment on Pinguicula (butterworts) 2 months ago:
Long fiber sphagnum moss wicking water up from the substrate, mostly. I’ve heard that lava rock can be porous enough to stay moist on its own but it doesn’t work for me in my dry climate.
- Submitted 2 months ago to houseplants@mander.xyz | 4 comments
- Comment on Sundew 2 months ago:
Thank you! I spent an hour jamming sphagnum moss one strand at a time into the substrate like a crazy person 😅
- Comment on Sundew 2 months ago:
Peat and perlite mostly, I use this mix from Amazon topped with live sphagnum (and some star moss hitchikers)
- Submitted 2 months ago to houseplants@mander.xyz | 6 comments
- Comment on If it's your job to complain but you get burnt out on complaining, what would you do? 2 months ago:
Move to pro bono I suppose
- Comment on If it's your job to complain but you get burnt out on complaining, what would you do? 2 months ago:
I would get so sick of complaining I’d probably start giving good advice and proactively trying to fix shit, eventually driving myself out of business. Then I’d complain about how it’s the government’s fault.
- Comment on Vince Zampella, video game developer behind 'Call of Duty' franchise, killed in mountain road crash 2 months ago:
No offense to you, I’ve had conversations with you before and we’re not speaking the same language. I do hope you get help.
