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  • Fix Your Hearts or Die: The path to liberation for lonely men is feminism

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  • I had to remove the paywall, but it does not appear they make this argument. What they do say is

    "The dramatically different social media world young men and women are exposed to may also be a factor, and men are more likely to hear anti-college messaging from Silicon Valley luminaries such as Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, and podcasters like Joe Rogan, said Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education in Washington, D.C."

    The reason often cited for the dramatic increase in women higher education participation has been traced to a network of organization that encourage girls. Apparently boys may be getting the opposite.

    And then this gem

    "The numbers would be even worse at many top schools if they did not practice a kind of affirmative action to admit more male applicants, several higher education observers said."

    Oof that has got to hurt that the majority of current affirmative action has been for MALES. Not women or minorities.

  • Fix Your Hearts or Die: The path to liberation for lonely men is feminism

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  • The Trump Administration is Testing Conversion Therapy By Medically Experimenting on Trans People in Prisons

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  • "The Bureau will not provide social accommodations, including to inmates diagnosed with GD, and the inmate will not receive social accommodations. If the inmate currently has social accommodations, the Bureau shall no longer provide the social accommodations"

    So all bets are off and it is time to ignore the Prison Rape Elimination Act.

  • ICE Goon Shoots Bed in Neighboring Hotel Room While Fiddling With His Gun

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  • Maganificent

  • lemmy is my stream of consciousness diary and the posts my entries

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  • Facebook called and wants their meme back

  • Dublin City Council suspends use of X as State agencies leave amid Grok controversy

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  • It feels like the majority of all news links for videos all go back to X. It is disgusting.

  • 'I can destroy the country': Trump's threat after Supreme Court strikes down his key policy

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  • He always proves he is more stupid than you thought possible. It is like his special power.

  • When it’s none of your business, you should keep scrolling.

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  • Tune-in Tokyo

  • intersectionality forever

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  • Thank you for your kind words. My daughters were both denied justice like so many women. This is pretty normal as only a small fraction of rapes are ever successfully prosecuted. I was always hyper-vigilant with them, but you can't always be there to protect everyone every moment.

    It is not just my daughters though. My wife, my mother, and every women I have had the privilege to talk to about this topic has been sexually assaulted. Often time multiple times throughout their life.

    I have worked in CPS and some of the things I have experienced would shake normal people to their core and send them running away. I have been a care coordinator for elders and the stories they tell are equally hair raising. I have worked hand in hand with women shelters and I have seen abuse in the worst ways imaginable.

    I totally agree in your situation that you can prefer humanism over feminism without being a chud. Not so much for people who have never bothered to read about either of them.

    I will once again point out that they are not the same. Humanism talks in generalities about issues. Feminism explains how and why which is very different than humanism. Humanism does not encompass feminism rather they are distinctly different. Until you recognize this I think you will continue to flounder when discussing your preferences in regards to these two topics.

    Feminism has a lot of good criticism out there, but equally humanism does as well. Both have been characterized of relying on western-centric values and being used as a tool instead of a solution to existing power dynamics.

    I understand you believe you have tried to engage in good faith. Do you really believe that group of abused women is representative of feminist scholars? I suppose this may be splitting hairs to some people, but not to people who understand these as complex topics that can never be represented by single or even groups of people.

    I am probably going out on a limb that someone will be happy to cut, but the majority of people who claim to be feminists really have no foundation in understanding feminism. It is more about identity than a genuine belief/knowledge of the values of modern feminism. This may seem like a no true Scotsman fallacy, but the devil is always in the details.

  • The Republican Party Has a Nazi Problem | How did the GOP become a haven for slogans and ideas straight out of the Third Reich?

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  • America First - White supremacy garbage slogan adopted by the KKK back in 1920.

    America is for Americans - Identical Nazi slogan "Germany is for Germans"

    One homeland, one people, one heritage - A variation of a Nazi slogan "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer" which is listed as a central Nazi phrase at the Holocaust Museum.

    We will have our home again - ICE recruitment effort. Used by far right ethno-nationalist Völkisch movement.

    Numerous speeches referring to vermin, poisoning blood of our country, etc which are all Nazi/White nationalist dog whistles.

  • Employa destroya 🫵😫

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  • I will tip for good service at a restaurant. I really try to do cash because it is common for management to steal all or a portion of the tips.

    I just had this discussion with my wife yesterday when I got a Subway sub for her. When I went to pay it asked for a percentage based tip. Keep in mind this sub was $16 where I live.

    I hate that corporations are underpaying their workers and trying to guilt you into giving them a tip which they then promptly steal.

  • America's most partisan voters hold the most voting power

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  • Keeps on getting worse every year.

  • Trump's tariffs cost American households $1,000 last year: Research group

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  • Large fry over $5 at my local McDonald's. Truly crazy margins.

  • It makes me shudder

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  • Can't even put it on the right direction, sheesh.

  • Kalashnikov showcases electric military motorcycles

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  • Yeah, going to call bullshit unless you ride an electric bike. As someone who has driven longer than most here have been alive I can attest that motorcycle being loud has prevented accidents.

    If you drive motorcycles you would know how drivers ignore you and at some point will likely kill you. Sound is just one way to help increase visibility and it works. This is reality.

  • intersectionality forever

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  • Not so much trolls, just the majority of users. Most tech related forums are like this. Such is life.

    Preferring humanist over feminist is kind of nonsensical. Feminism roots are in gender inequality and voting rights. Modern feminism (last 40 or so years) is focused on oppression theory and is the evolution of humanism in modern times.

    It is like saying I prefer astronomer over astrophysicist. It doesn't really make sense because they are different things from different times.

    I never said it was anti-feminist to say you are against torture leading to murder (this of course did not actually happen in regards to Genghis and castration). In fact, feminism did not exist during the time of Ghenghis Khan nor did humanism.

    Whenever examining history from a modern lense we should recognize the way we think and our motivations are significantly different from previous generations let alone several hundred years.

    I said you were not a feminist. I am also not a feminist even though I have spent a lot of time at Uni and later on in my personal life studying it. I am what you would call an ally. If I am wrong about you, my apologies.

    I am not an authority and yes I definitely filled in the blank. I am very good at guessing motivations, and as I said you showed some red flags right away with you story trying to conflate man-haters with feminism. This is such a common trope it shows your hand so to speak. If this was not your intention I understand.

    I am sorry, but I did not mean to imply you said we should forgive abusers. I think a humanist perspective that looks towards rehabilitation and change rather than punishment is a great ideal. One that we are sorely lacking in modern times.

    If you are not sure why a comic of a white male "man-splaining" something nonsensical to two women and then in the next panel the women having a conflict over race is offensive then I am not sure we view things as the same way.

    As I pointed out it is a gross misrepresentation of modern feminism. Without humanism there wouldn't have been feminism and without feminism we would not have gotten minority studies that revealed through research institutionalized racism.

    This is a direct threat to the ruling class hence the constant lies and propaganda pushback feminism has received. So you if you have an issue with feminism please bring receipts because I am a passionate human being who has studied it for years and I have daughters and grandkids.

    My daughters experienced sexual assault and I got to deal with the police and see how the modern system works. The pushback from the Metoo movement is intense with prosecutors, police officers, and judges using their discretion to perpetuate a system of blatant sexism. My cynical side says they are either rapists themselves or enablers.

    You are going to get what you want to get. If you don't feel welcomed to participate that is your decision. I am not a mod and I am not here to welcome anyone on a post that would attract the worst kind of people. I said my two cents and I often find myself getting involved when I should probably just walk away. It is a personal failing of mine.

  • intersectionality forever

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  • It was condensing as I am replying to and obviously anti-feminist post with a bunch of passive aggressive misogynists. This is normal as Lemmy is stocked full of insecure men.

    I will get absolutely frank. You have some obvious issues with women that have nothing to do with this one group.

    There is no restorative justice for someone who raped and murdered thousands of people in their lifetime. It is obvious you are ignorant to what he did. That is okay.

    Just because you are enlightened enough to want your abuser to get fixed doesn't mean someone else is. Also, considering we are talking about a historical figure it is kind of silly.

    You are not a feminist. Have you studied feminism!? If you had you would recognize several red flags you carry around like a badge of honor. You would also see this cartoon as a mischaracterization and along the lines of micro aggression.

    Were you abused by a woman? I could perhaps see where you are coming from if this is the case. Not that you are correct in your thinking, but understandable. The women you described earlier honestly need therapy once they are living in a society that isn't actively abusing them.

    I am glad you can recognize this one group were not your abusers. I am also hopeful that you will one day look at this cartoon and say, that is a bunch of bullshit. What the chud is clearly missing is feminism explores a deep dive into oppression.

    Nothing he mentions actually makes any sense in this regard and it is disingenuous. The kind of half baked comment a man would have said back in the 1970's in the US. 50 years later it is nothing more that anti-feminism rant ignoring the wealth of information research scientists have uncovered about culture.

  • intersectionality forever

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  • Ah yes, I see trying to pigeon hole feminism because women who are abused don't trust men.

    The two are unrelated because women distrust men without feminism.

    In respect to Genghis Khan, he was a mass murder and rapist of epic proportions. Not really a good example if you are trying to paint them as horrible people.

    Feminism is an academic study of oppression and people who oppress men are not feminists. They are probably just women trying to cope in a patriarchy that abuses and suppresses them. Angry and upset about a world that steals their bodily autonomy and ignored their cries for help.

    This comic is a mischaracterization of feminism. For one feminism studies was a catalyst for African American Women studies. The man in the beggining is definitely a chud and the comic is written from a chud perspective.

  • Kalashnikov showcases electric military motorcycles

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  • Don't get me wrong, I can totally understand the hate that loud pipes generate. There are also assholes who do things like idle their loud bikes in their driveways for half an hour in the morning.