What does that have to do with anything? The only reason I’d be more comfortable with a woman cat-calling me is because I’m significantly bigger than most women and my position in society lends me a lot more power and confidence. Even if a dude did it I’d be way better off than if I were a woman so I can brush it off more easily. I’m also not attracted to every woman I see so what does it matter?

Besides, turn that around and ask yourself if you really think that a straight woman being cat-called by a man makes them feel any better. In fact, maybe the inherent lack of attraction found between a male participant and a male cat-caller actually makes the point that much stronger. “I’m not attracted to this person and yet they continue to pressure me and that makes me feel all the more unsafe”.

Right, but as a 6’-5” dude I feel a lot less anxiety. When I feel any anxiety I can ignore it and remind myself that the shit I’m conjuring up just doesn’t actually happen here. Meanwhile, my friend has been followed home multiple times and all she did was be vaguely kind to a man. One time she didn’t even ever talk to the dude, he just saw her at the bar and decided that was his night to be a gargantuan piece of filth!

No one is actually going to mug me here but I know many people who constantly need to be on edge around men, even people who are supposed to be their friends. It’s not about feeling anxious, it’s about understanding that women experience all the same anxieties and also have to deal with a bunch of other, far more real, threats all the while being often physically smaller/weaker.

You’re not wrong that both genders experience anxiety but you have just entirely missed the point. When the women in your life deal with this shit I hope you approach the situation with more compassion than whatever drove you to writing that stupid comment.

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On another note, carrying a weapon actually makes you more anxious. You’d think it would give a feeling of safety but it really doesn’t, so you best be damn sure you have a real good reason to be packing heat.

Your values are who you are when you get to think about what you want to be. They are what you’re proud of, and they are what allow you to look upon your actions positively. Your values and principles are the foundation everything else is built on.

People will certainly judge your actions, and that’s fair for them to do much of the time, but if your actions and your values are so disconnected that the difference comes into play so strongly then you might need to read the post over a few more times.

I mean, are they? When I think of centrists I see people who are constantly saying “I want to do this great thing and all but…” right before spouting some feels-based economic bullshit for why we shouldn’t take care of others.

I live in Canada where we have a left, a center, and a right. The left party was thrown in the bin by voters so that they could “strategically” vote for the centrists in order to avoid the far-right. Now we have a party that is pouring money into private business and gutting our environment for some short-term gains but because they don’t overtly hate gay people somehow that’s ok. They lied to us about getting a better voting specifically because they are the only party that benefits from FPTP here and then we just let them get away with it.

Centrists are worse than conservatives, in my opinion and in the context of the longterm, because the only thing they ever genuinely succeed at on their own is massively delaying progress and causing further shifts toward to the right. They’re worthless idiots at best and modt of the time are straight-up malicious liars who want the image of a progressive without doing anything truly positive.

Fuck “centrists”; they’re just conservatives who are too chicken-shit to say it outloud.

We like to think we aren’t animals. You’re attaching meaning to a combination of words that is far too common to guarantee any kind of single definition.

People don’t like to think they’re animals. Call it whatever you like, in a context like this they almost certainly do not mean to include humans. And heck, do either of us actually know enough about sperm whale communication to say it ain’t? I’m sure Korea’s twelve levels of politeness probably has them beat, but still.

My mom worked in the summer and paid her and my dad’s, I believe, tuition. Absolutely fucked up. When I went to school I saw classmates running themselves ragged trying to finish homework and also go to work.

And we(society in general) keep believing them, always acting like we’ll be rewarded if we just work a little harder. All the people using AI “because it helps me in my job” haven’t stopped for even a second to ask why the fuck they should be looking to be any more productive than they already are.

We enable this shit. We let ourselves be driven by these fucking toolbags. We have better options presented to us all the time and we ignore them. It’s our fault, but the cool thing about that is that it means we technically have control. Technically.

And I’d prefer having someone whose goals are actually progressive but who struggles to realize them than someone who will succeed at their promises to be horrible little shit-stains.

Against his competion a healthy society would have looked at Cuomo and thrown him in the fucking garbage and Mamdani would have gotten 90%. Ya’ll gotta raise your standards, even if you don’t raise your expectations.

I don’t take anything for granted in North America. We just elected the most obviously corrupt person to be mayor of Montréal and even the total left/right votes between the four major parties skewed significantly right because we’re stupid as hell.

That probably does something to it as well, but ok then change it to “I can’t believe that he was actually elected”.

That just goes to show how bad the US is at electing leaders. Just terrible, even when good options do exist, to the point that I still don’t fully believe Mamdani is the New York Mayor.

Used to work with structural engineers. Ohhhh buddy the senior people were wild for that kinda crap.

We never teach these skills and then we threaten people with job loss for imperfection so most people are unequipped for the job and terrified of the consequences. Combine that with refusal to pay people in “lower” positions more than managers means that good people are promoted out of their area of expertise and into management which is just such a huge problem.

Society is fucking dumb.

And yet they still lost.

Sooooo much TexMex food is this way.

I’m sorry, so besides not wanting to pay a person to drive the vehicle, the fuck does this service actually provide again?

That isn’t what they were saying at all. The first person said they hoped that the bad shit would be undone by the next adminstration and the person you responded to mentioned past examples where new administrations did not do a lot, if anything, to undo awful policy. They didn’t say that the Democrats were just as bad but they rightly pointed out that said party doesn’t really put a lot of effort into fixing what was broken.

You are using subpar metals, brother. And the intricacy of their carvings will be delicate, nearly flat, so as not to disrupt functionality.

Hahahahahahahaha

And then if there are, they don’t really get enforced.

My mom drove my BRZ to the store once since it was the last car in the driveway. She walked out into the parking lot after with my sister and was like “oh fuck, I just lost his new car”.

It was behind a small sedan, like a Corolla or something haha