This is pretty cool, if I had enough books I’d probably try using it too!

I’m guessing there’s people out there who hear Dewey Decimal and get hit with childhood trauma. But yeah, navigating a library should intuitive and effortless.

Maybe people are just afraid of bugs.

Well there is a wavebird under them, that’s a good sign. They might use that Wii to play them

I just don’t understand how some people think rejecting capitalism is going too far. Like it’s bad, everyone knows it’s destroying us, it takes nothing to admit it. Feels great to be anti-capitalist.

Someone is going to see this and downvote you because they saw you use the word “liberal” negatively and immediately think you’re a right-winger or something.

But yeah, if the media outlets would understand that “the economy” (rich peoples yacht money) is based on garbage metrics, maybe they wouldn’t act so offended when people call them out on it

For me it’s just being able to have longer discussion. I dunno, maybe I can do that on Mastodon but it feels to quick for me. I’ve always liked forum posting, so this suits me better

I think a lot of feminists, hooks included, were pretty fed up with the academy. Their problem was that white upper class women were setting the terms of what feminism was in a way that excluded women of color who had also worked for many generations without being recognized. She was a supporter of using the term kyriarchy, which is more neutral and includes all structures of oppression.

That being said, I don’t think we need an academic interpretation to say fuck the patriarchy. It’s empowering! And for men too. We don’t need to wait for the correct wording to fight against it. We can be awesome allies and good to each other, because we know the systems of oppression we’re all fighting against.

You should check out bell hooks sometime, she talks a lot about that! It’s a misunderstanding a lot of people have that comes from hot takes.

Despite the contemporary visionary feminist thinking that makes clear that a patriarchal thinker need not be a male, most folks continue to see men as the problem of patriarchy. This is simply not the case. Women can be as wedded to patriarchal thinking and action as men.

from Understanding Patriarchy

Not the case at all. I’m a big fan of bell hooks for example, but she’s not perfect. Still, she raises good points, like feminism is for everyone and that patriarchy can hurt men just as much as women.

Internet’s an echo chamber, so it’s good to get out and just talk to real people and ask them what’s important.

Nah. Feminists didn’t create the mess that systemically harms men. What actually creates it is systemic patriarchy. If you’ve never heard of Earl Silverman, give his story a read. He did try to create many of the things you advocate for, and the things that caused their failure was not feminists. It’s a tragedy.

That being said, we absolutely still need non toxic spaces where men can heal and be great allies to themselves and others

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Silverman

Reminds me of this scene from chainsaw man:

Watch some Japanese programming, read any magazine there, and you’ll probably notice a huge amount of articles praising people living long, active, healthy lives. Is suicide an issue? Absolutely. But it’s ridiculous to say they don’t value life, especially when compared to some countries which seem to have a problem with gun violence

I could have sworn at least OP was making that reference, but oh well. Glad someone got it!

It’s like that classic case of bank fraud where the criminal takes pennies out of peoples’ accounts, hoping they won’t notice and the bank will think it’s an error.

If Reddit gets caught can we send them to federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison?

Wow, I never noticed that. I always thought it was just a Joel Schumacher thing. Match made in heaven I guess

I love to hate this movie, but I think Freeze’s costume, made by an actual armor fabricator is just sick as hell, nipples be damned.

Would you work for Panda Express if they paid you with cash?

Sadly it’s not too far from what cop simps actually say. The only giveaway is using words like “criminal” instead of “thug”

Also, appealing to something like scientific evidence to make a point, they’d never do that

It’ll probably happen with millennials and younger too. It’s true we got fucked over, but for some people it’s surprisingly easy “fuck you I got mine” as we age, and there will always be grifters who take advantage of that.