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DomeGuy

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  • Italy now recognizes the crime of femicide and punishes it with life in prison

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  • Do I interpret your meaning correctly as less "it's not sexism" and more "laws should reflect the issues of their time"?

    What would be sexism in law in your view? Is it even reasonable to talk about "sexism against men" as a concept?

  • Italy now recognizes the crime of femicide and punishes it with life in prison

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  • If you come and burn a cross on my white church-going family's lawn you should be charged with same list of assault, trespass, and arson charges as if you did so on my jewish, black, or pagan friends' lawns.

    A group of black men who banded together and murdered a white boy for dating one of their daughters should be charged with the same anti-lynching statutes enacted to stop the KKK.

    The white christian guy who bombs a federal building because the government doesn't do what he wants should be charged under the same terrorism statute as a brown muslim guy who bombs a federal building because the government doesn't do what he wants.

  • Italy now recognizes the crime of femicide and punishes it with life in prison

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  • I'm really curious how you don't see "we make crimes against one sex worse than crimes against the other" as sexism.

    Do you mean it in a "racism is discrimination + oppression" kind of way, where no discrimination against men can be "sexism" due to the patriarchy? Or maybe you think this is more like "free tampon dispenses in the women's restroom" and the disparity is simply right and proper due to differences between the sexes?

    I personally react to this the same way I react to definitions of rape that go something like "the insertion of a penis into another human without their consent", which excludes cis women rapists from even being charged as such. Or rules allowing "maternity leave" for new mothers (beyond mere recuperation from childbirth) but denying "paternity leave" for new fathers (who may be doing all of the parenting depending on the state of their [possibly deceased] partner.)

  • Italy now recognizes the crime of femicide and punishes it with life in prison

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  • Oh, you've read the law in question. Great! I can't read Italian, and the linked article didnt have a statement of what the law actually said.

    Does the law specify "woman" as a protected class or "gender"?

    With the enactment of this law, is a man who murders a woman for the covered motivation treated differently than a woman who murders a man with the equivalent malice? What's the actual difference?

  • Italy now recognizes the crime of femicide and punishes it with life in prison

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  • Like in the case of infanticide. Should that motivation be ignored and the person charged with homicide?

    You're missing my point. If you kill someone out of hatred for babies, teenagers, the elderly, or whatever agist "generation" they're a member of you should be charged with the exact same crime.

    (Also,.FWIW, the term in American english and American law is generally "murder". "Homicide" is just an unnatural death which may or may not be criminal.)

  • Italy now recognizes the crime of femicide and punishes it with life in prison

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  • If they were gender neutral, it wouldn't be accurate to describe them as "banning femicide."

    Maybe you're right, and the reporting is the sexist part and not the law. I can't read Italian and am unfamiliar with the intricacies of their legal system, so I'd be delighted to be proven wrong.

    But saying "oh no, it cant be that bad" is exactly how we got woman-killing abortion bans in parts of my country.

  • Italy now recognizes the crime of femicide and punishes it with life in prison

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  • Every time we draw a line and say "women need special protection", we are implicitly saying "men don't matter."

    The very simple fix for this is to keep laws gender-neutral, and let the disparity between prosecutions for hateful murders of women vs hateful murders of men be reflective of the actual disparities in the two sexist hatreds.

    Unfortunately, we live in a world where a fact like "41% of American women report experiencing domestic partner violence" will be read as an excuse to ignore that 21% of men report the same thing.

    https://www.cdc.gov/intimate-partner-violence/about/index.html

    I've encountered women arguing that all domestic violence and rape is from men, which would require one-in-five men to have had a homosexual relationship and all such to have been violent.

    Yes, men tend to be physically stronger than women and thus male-on-female IPV is often more harmful, but we already have laws that distinguish based on level of harm. And, yes, too many counties are sexist hell-holes that make American red-states look like feminist utopias.

    But I don't think we as a species can sexism our way out of sexism.

  • Italy now recognizes the crime of femicide and punishes it with life in prison

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  • It's not complicated, it's just sexist and not explained in the linked article.

    If a man kills a woman out of hatred for women that's a terrible crime and should be severely punished. But if a woman kills a man out of hatred for men, that is exactly as horrific a crime and should be punished no less severely.

    Sexism in law benefits nobody.

  • Italy now recognizes the crime of femicide and punishes it with life in prison

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  • Does this imply that previously killing women wasn't criminal in Italy?

    I presume that femicide is a subset of "homicide", but I can't tell if it means "any killing of a woman", "any killing of a woman by a man", "any killing of a woman because she's a woman", or "any killing of a woman by a man because she's a woman".

    And I shudder to imagine how trans-women and trans-men fit into this weirdly sexist label.

    (In America we have nice gender-neutral crimes, with enhancers if it was done out of prejudicial hate.)

  • Why are "love potions" always romantic in nature? Why hasn't anyone made a non-romantic variant?

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  • You mean, instead of an eros potion it'd be a portion of agapa, philia, or xenia?

    Most likely because "be nice to strangers" or "don't defile the dead" can be easily enforced with violence without being rapey.

    (And, worth noting, modern anti-depresssnts are kind of a philautía potion already, since they help with "love of self.")

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_words_for_love

  • Supreme Court blocks order that found Texas congressional map is likely racially biased

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  • The federalist society faux-jusrices have a clear practice of ignoring precedent and law, deciding what outcome they want, and then engaging in creative writing to pretend their conclusions are justified by facts.

    Do not let anyone pretend that anything the plausible future democratic Congress does to remake the court is too far or too reactionary. We have a 6-3 majority that is all "Bush v Gore" all the time, and if we're going to have ivory tower academics discarding precedent for their chosen ends those academics should at.least be endorsed by the people every few years.

  • Even Luke has standards.

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  • In the scene the pic is from, Luke couldn't have killed Ben even if he wanted to!

    He wasn't physically there, and would have more reasonably dropped the star destroyer on Ben than stabbed him with a laser sword.

  • What's a better way to say "possibly possible" or "necessarily necessary"?

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  • "possibly possible" is either redundant or unclear. Try:

    • Plausible
    • Conceivable
    • Possible

    "Not Necessarily necessary" is definitely redundant and unclear. Try:

    • Not necessary
    • Unnecessary
    • May not be necessary

    (Unless you're talking about taking antibiotics for anything but a bacterial infection, in which case "wasteful and dangerous" is better phrasing.)

  • People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be poor and how close middle class is to being below the poverty

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  • Yeah thats the "middle class". They aren't part of the working class (serfs) but also arent the hereditary owners of counties (nobles.).

    Rich fucks who have more money than anyone else and yet bitch about how hard they have it has literally always been what "middle class" means.

    Washington and Jefferson was middle class. FDR and JFK were middle class. King George, Queen Elizabeth and King Charles are not

  • People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be poor and how close middle class is to being below the poverty

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  • The rich 1% are the middle class. America discarded the hereditary upper class when we banned titles of nobility.

    In our free society there are only two classes : those with enough money that they never have to work again, and those without.

  • Why is ethanol so tasty?

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  • Potable Alcohol is tasty for much the same reason fat and carbs are tasty -- it's calorically dense.

    It's also habit forming, much like caffeine or nicotine or THC,.in that it causes a temporary but enjoyable alteration of our neurochemistry.

    (It can also be addictive like nicotine, in that regular use can lead to illness-like withdrawal symptoms.)

    And, it's also a solvent with distinct properties to water, allowing for preparations with distinctly different tastes from other foods. Which makes alcohol also slightly like salt or spices, in that it changes how other foods taste.

  • TIL that the majority of americans living in Wyoming, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Idaho, Arkansas, Louisiana, Kentucky currently support the Trump administration

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  • I count eighteen states that fit that description and yet you only list seven.

    Am I reading the chart wrong, or can you explain what's different about Oklahoma but not Florida?

  • Have you ever met a truly evil person? What happened?

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  • Why did you say "not your neighbor who voted for Trump" and then provide an example who absolutely [would have] voted for Trump?

  • Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me"

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  • As has been said elsewhere about everything Microsoft is pulling:

    If your LLM was worth using you wouldn't need to force anyone to use it.