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Cake day: July 16th, 2023

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  • Honestly? I think that equal treatment should be afforded regardless of gender. I also know that opinion is wildly unpopular, and so long as society expects unequal treatment there has to be hard conversations and hard decisions made to support those structures. You can’t have it both ways, and no amount of party-line fingers in your ears "wouldn’t you like to know"ing makes that go away.



  • So long as society feels it necessary to provide protections for women, the distinction has real consequences. Drawing a line anywhere is a tradeoff between inclusivity and effectiveness.

    Taking the party line “high ground” stance of either conclusive self-determination or dodging the question entirely is why this question is so effective.






  • Bgugi@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldAny ideas?
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    3 months ago

    I used one but not the other because my best interpretation of modern social sensibilities is that “whore” is not considered terribly offensive when it’s directed outside of its more literal sense, whereas “queer” is only acceptable in positive discussion of non-heteronormativity.

    The second gear- usage just comes from a time (and communities behind the times) where the slur is used more broadly to mean “anybody I don’t like.”


  • Bgugi@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldAny ideas?
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    3 months ago

    I think with many hobbies there’s a two-sided trap:

    If you buy the absolute cheapest, you can end up hamstrung and unable to progress. On the other end, you can get caught up in having the very best, and miss out on actually progressing because you’re convinced you just need to buy a better one.






  • Bgugi@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldWe're disabled, Daniel
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    4 months ago

    To clarify, you used the phrase “amount of actually disabled people parking”. The placement of actually before disabled ties those words together, making the subject “actually disabled person,” which firmly implies (but does not explicitly state) that there is an issue with “fake” disabled people.

    I think you were shooting for “disabled people actually parking,” which means “typical usage by disabled people”