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- Comment on Why conservative men repeatedly crash Grindr 11 hours ago:
“Ugly” as an insult does more damage even it’s aimed at a person who was taught their only value in the whole world was how cute they look, regardless of gender. It just happens that the majority of people who were taught that from birth were women.
Nobody does beauty and the beast with an ugly chick and a cute guy without explicitly trying to undermine the ideal of beauty as intrinsically the sole function of a woman. Men get to be primarily funny, sweet, handy, clever, etc, with handsome as a potential secondary add-on; women generally need to be beautiful, with any other characteristics being the secondary add-on.
And we’re not taking about things you can choose, like hygiene and smoking status. Just looks. A woman who’s kind but ugly always turns into a beautiful swan at the end of the male fantasy story.
If you call someone an inbred thickhead it hits about the same. If you call someone a slimey booger it hits about the same. If you call someone a useless empty ghoul it hits about the same. But you gotta know visual insults like ugly have broader social context.
And to be clear. A HUGE amount of this problem is intensified and maintained by the billion dollar beauty industry, which LOVES insecurity. It’s working hard to monetize men too! But it’s still a work in progress there.
- Comment on Why conservative men repeatedly crash Grindr 11 hours ago:
Are you serious?
- Comment on Let's discuss... 1 day ago:
Nobody said who was getting warmed up here
- Comment on Let's discuss... 1 day ago:
Where else do you expect them to store their emergency absinthe stash?
- Comment on Cracked out wall kitten, back to spread her knowledge and wisdom 1 day ago:
Ooooh if she has twins
- Comment on Cracked out wall kitten, back to spread her knowledge and wisdom 1 day ago:
Oh rare steak. Nice.
- Comment on US presidents ranked by how much of a soul it looks like they have behind those eyes 1 day ago:
How the holy molarity did Clinton rank that high
- Comment on Lemmyshitpost lately 2 days ago:
I am SO HAPPY to see big tits on my timeline instead of anime children showing their whole ass. Like. Reddit is not ok. I will happily accept having to see mommy milkers instead of lipless, eyebrow-deficient bobbleheaded children in lingerie.
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 1 week ago:
“People without a proper degree in statistics should not be allowed to get anywhere near numbers” is my new favorite phrase. Thank you for the QC!
- Comment on misleading cover 1 week ago:
That means I’d need a steam account, which I don’t actually have.
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 3 weeks ago:
I probably just need to buy a fair phone at this point.
- Comment on misleading cover 3 weeks ago:
…is that real or a clever pun you just made up? I really want to know without using Google.
- Comment on Would you want to go back in time when you were a kid? 5 weeks ago:
Of course. I would love to see my mom again, and I would love to be that lucky lottery winner. I’d love to get better grades in math, too.
- Comment on Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster 5 weeks ago:
So… Ranch dressing?
- Comment on Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster 5 weeks ago:
It fucking depends on the target weakness bro.
- Comment on Rent is theft 5 weeks ago:
Landlords as the people who rent out places to live to other people are responsible for the house. It’s not raw unimproved land. Houses need to be built. They’re objects with many moving parts, subject to a lot of technical challenges, and code enforcement.
If you allow that object rental has a place in society, I struggle to understand how houses are not ethically the same as renting lawnmowers. You can be a predatory arse or a fair dealer about any rental situation.
- Comment on Rent is theft 5 weeks ago:
Churchill never had to learn plumbing in a rural area of a state because he had to do the work himself because there was nobody to do it for him.
- Comment on Rent is theft 5 weeks ago:
EXCELLENT POINT. “Class status” is not anything objectively measurable. Wealth is.
I aspire to be independent. To be free to do art and sell it without worrying about food or housing.
- Comment on Rent is theft 5 weeks ago:
Bro they are being facetious to make a point
- Comment on Rent is theft 5 weeks ago:
See, that’s an excellent point! But “landlords suck” as a stance doesn’t allow for nuance like “some landlords suck and some tenants are abusive dirtbags”, it paints all tenants as pure victims of a system and all landlords as evil overlords. This lets people who are tenants feel righteous.
- Comment on Rent is theft 5 weeks ago:
I’m trying to point out that “landlords are evil” is a stupid stance because how and why you do things matters. Everything counts in large amounts, and I have had good landlords before. Tenants who have never done their own property maintenance rarely understand what goes into property maintenance.
- Comment on Rent is theft 5 weeks ago:
Someone created the house. The house didn’t grow there organically…
- Comment on Rent is theft 5 weeks ago:
Does this still apply to the apartment building I once lived in which was built and run by an immigrant family as a long term family investment, and they charged a really reasonable price?
Just curious.
- Comment on Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars 6 months ago:
“ethical hacker” is not defined as “someone who only hacks in fear of law”. That’s my point. Hackers with ethics do lots of shit. Some of them work within the law, some of them work sideways to the law, but your code of ethics and your legal code aren’t quite the same thing, and you assuming they are is surprising.
- Comment on Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars 6 months ago:
Girl Tech?
Bro.
Stares in old lady
- Comment on Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars 6 months ago:
Dude, do you want individual hacking to become illegal? Because people who are not hacking daily are prone to forgetting that some hackers don’t actually act maliciously.
Also, yes, some hackers are ethical and do care. Not you, obviously. But some.