Southkraut
A tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
All alliterations are accidental.
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Well, it could be a descriptive statement of fact rather than a prescriptive statement of intent. À la "the purpose of a system is what it does".
So right now all it does where you live is say "that's equal"? That's it?
Understandable.
“women should have the same political, economic, and social rights as men”
This right here. Please specify where it applies. Where and in what way do women not have the same political, economic and social rights as men? What the hell does "feminism" as you define it even do? Or is it simply a maximally slim and slippery definition designed to minimize attack surface?
Where exactly does your society not grant equal rights to men and women, then?
Strange that an ideology of equality would be named after just one of the two parties it purports to equalize. Anyways.
Can you go into more detail on what you mean by equality? Purely equal treatment before the law? Equal outcomes by specific metrics? A complete eradication of the concept of differences between the sexes? Men and women already have the vote, so I guess that's not what you mean.
So what's the current state of the BLR? On hiatus? In Limbo? Gone forever? Might conceivably make a comeback?
Assuming that you are a woman in the first place and that what you said is true, yes, that's what I just said, isn't it?
But I have doubts about those assumptions. You already identified as a feminist, so please do lay out what constitutes the core tenets of this feminism for you. I suspect we will find many elements that are plainly aiming to put men at a disadvantage.
Ooh, now I see it. Yeah, typo. Thanks for pointing it out.
You know how we Germans fixed it? Manöver. There. That's how you appropriate a French word!
@Southkraut: "Outmanoeuver"? A daring synthesis, as the cool kids say.
I'm just a tired old Swabian who pretends to speak english. I don't get it. What are you saying? What has it to do with roads?
I navigate it by doing it my way while the wife does it her way. With all the fallout and obvious failure modes. Unclear rules and expectations, constant arguments, and me often straight-up ignoring her instructions (and telling her so). I'm not even giving her any instructions of my own; she wouldn't follow those either. Instead, she just gets a regular supply of "told you so"s.
The consequence of this is that our daughter (3.5yo by now) likes me better for playing, especially during the daytime, because we do more exciting stuff that my wife would never do because there's more than a minimal risk of phyical injury, but prefers her mother for sleeping in bed with because she can get her way with a long list of demands before sleep where I would just say "nope, sleepytime now, good night" and turn off the lights. Obviously when I and our daughter have an argument about something (making a mess and not helping with the cleanup, not wanting the food she requested, refusing to get dressed before we need to go out), I'll take the hard line and the kid will try to outmanoeuver me by running to her mom, who will make up some excuse for her. But shortly after that, her mom will be exhausted by trying to do paranoid helicopter parenting while also indulging in her smartphone addiction, and it's dad time again for actually doing things during the day.
I try to avoid all those stupid dynamics by just grabbing the kid the moment I come back from work (or right after waking up, on weekends) and proclaiming that damn the torpedoes we are now going to the playground/pool (depending on the weather) and we'll picnic outdoors and we're only coming back home after she's thoroughly exhausted herself. After which I get scolded for exhausting her, can't I see it was too much? Too much what - exercise and fresh air? Modern mothers are crazy. But screw spending any time in the pigsty those two create after just one day of me being away at the office. On rainy days I run another hard line of "no playing until we cleaned up this mess". And given some tasks that she can actually accomplish, it seems she even enjoys being helpful. Then it's puzzles and board games and ball.
So yeah, no second child while the mother is under the delusion that children need uninterrupted supervision 100% of the time, or that it's acceptable to give the child unlimited access to sugar and screen time just because the mother herself is addicted to the same, and that the outdoors is a lethally dangerous place because it triggers your social anxiety and so the child is best kept indoors at all times, and that because raising a child like this is so exhausting and all-consuming, you cannot be expected to not make the household explode as soon as the man is out of the house.
Oh hey, hope you enjoyed by blogpost.
@SkookumTree is back!
I had respectfully joked about you very recently. Welcome back man. How have you fared? Lessons learned?
Good old topic. Authoritarian VS liberal parenting.
I'm on team strict. It seems to work, get results right away and forms beneficial habits, and while it supposedly traumatizes the child, I think that's either untrue or insignificant compared to the obvious advantages for everyone involved.
My wife and her family, of course, are on team OH GOD DO WHATEVER THE CHILD WANTS OR ELSE SHE WILL BE RUINED FOREVER. I think this mode of thinking is obviously wrong in every way (history, incentives, habit-forming, observable effects, the parenting histories of the people saying so), but what do I know.
“non-feminist” woman
A biological woman, since there is no other kind of woman, who does not propagate an anti-men narrative or attempt to benefit from such a narrative.
Frankly, while the p-zombie etc. description seems a little offensive, it also appears accurate for the specific case that sparked the discussion. In how far does it generalize. however? My subpar reading skills don't really let me parse what group exactly @WhiningCoil describes there, which makes it difficult to decide whether a rule has been broken.
I did read a story of him building his own house, which I suppose points to frugality. But AFAIK he just wanted to write above all else, thus earned little and had little to spend.
But whoever knows more, let me know.
Got a miniscule amount of code and concept work done, but it's not really going anywhere.
I wish I had an Unreal mentor to show me the ropes, but I dread heading over to Discord land to talk to people. Discord is too fast-paced for me, and populated by the kinds of people who like that environment. I got really lucky when I had some actual professional game devs coach me when I got started on Unity and that was hugely beneficial. For Unreal, I'm a little lost. Not enough up-to-date documentation for my taste. The tutorials I find often leave me with more questions than actionable directions. Mostly blueprints just confuse me - when do I use them how to do what that I would otherwise just write in plain code in any other engine? Blueprints come heavily recommended, but it feels like trying to knit with uncooked spaghetti.
But yeah, mostly I was just properly sick. Made a good-sized dent in my gaming backlog, but mostly just by opening things up, writing a review à la "It's not very good. Not recommended.", uninstalling and moving on. Did some laundry. Cleaned the kitchen. Watched numerous documentaries and youtube videos on various topics. Ultimately slept more than anything.
To rotate back - I wish someone with Unreal experience would show up and light the one true way.
I keep telling myself that if the next job also doesn't work out, I'll switch to blue-collar work. Something outdoors, if possible. Surely those people will appreciate a heads-in-the-cloud pseudo-intellectual more than the office drones I worked with so far.
this might give the far-right AfD another boost in the polls.
I doubt it. Anyone who would be swayed by such events probably has been swayed by now, given that those attacks come more frequently than snow. How large can be the number of people for whom this one event actually made the difference?
But I have been known to err on the side of "nothing ever happens", so who knows.
No mod hat?
That should work then. I'll see whether the pharmacy has it. Thanks!
I am lately of opinion that mild fevers shouldn't be medicated - otherwise you just prolong the suffering.
Maybe so, but honestly I'd rather suffer for a day or two longer if it means not having to pass an entire night with those nightmare headaches.
As for the bourbon - I might try that.
I have a big old pile of various antihistamines lying around. Will try. Thanks!
I'm using xylometazolinhydrochlorid, which usually works just fine - if it can actually get to the membranes, which it can't right now because there's no air left in my nose, just snot. I doubt anything else would work.
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Dangerous territory. Doubting what people say? We might doubt the ones that make more outlandish claims, too, like the ones who claim to be happy on drugs, happy in polyamory, happy pretending to be a different gender, unhappy because [something]phobia is rampant...the entire edifice of quoting dubious studies to underline some debate point will come crashing down.
To be clear, I think this kind of "people say" statistics are a spook. Might as well read in entrails.
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