@redenigma @AskTheDevil it's becoming a serious drag.

@GFerro1965 @AskTheDevil patriarchy teaches boys bad information. mothers need to do a better job countering that shit, & it requires starting from very young

@redenigma @GFerro1965 All parents. Not just moms!

@AskTheDevil @GFerro1965 true, but if dad has bad info to teach, mom needs to be countering that & training him too.

@redenigma @GFerro1965 Yes. I
I'm just generally annoyed that when men fall down on the job, women are expected to pick up the pieces.

@AskTheDevil @redenigma Seems like me women have been getting raped since the beginning of time because men think we are there to strictly relieve there needs and catch their semen. Its exhausting.

@GFerro1965 @AskTheDevil at one point, women were revered... patriarchy has tried desperately to erase all knowledge of that. patriarchy is terrified that if women have power they will treat men the way patriarchy has treated women.

@redenigma @GFerro1965

To be fair, that's likely true. When you create a system where one group has special privileges and rights over another, that's pretty much what happens.

@AskTheDevil @GFerro1965 but there's no real reason to think that men treating women (or any other group) as equals means they will subjugate men. they have only themselves as an example though, & that's what they did...

@redenigma @GFerro1965

I do believe that people who oppress others or accept the oppression of others to their own benefit, will definitely be biased to believe that were the situations reversed, they'd be treated the way they treated others.

But I don't believe being male or female makes you more or less inherently likely to oppress other people, barring cultural pressures. I think if women were big and men were small, women would have been the "patriarchy".

We need equality! : )

@AskTheDevil Your wife is lucky.😉

@GFerro1965 I'm gay. : )

@redenigma @GFerro1965 This is a brief rundown of the claims made against him.

Yeah. I think he did it.

https://www.tortoisemedia.com/2024/07/03/exclusive-neil-gaiman-accused-of-sexual-assault/

@AskTheDevil @redenigma
My own fault for wondering about it. No doubt the statute of Limitations is expired and that is all there will be. Men have been getting away with it too long. I'm just tired.

@AskTheDevil I think you eloquently expressed something I've been feeling but not quite figured out. Yeah sadly I share your bias. I just read online that season 3 of Good Omens is only going to be 90 minutes. He had a couple of great series along with all those wonderful books.on behalf of women everywhere thank you for believing us when we tell you things. 🤗

@GFerro1965 We have a society where women get sexually assaulted all the time, and then are put through the wringer, gaslit, victim-blamed, and women watch their police reports and charges go nowhere.

Why anyone would think, in that environment, that their default assumption should be that the woman is making it up I don't know.

Makes me think of why would a man "pretend" to be trans to rape people, in a culture that treats trans people worse than it treats rapists?

@tippitiwichet @GFerro1965 I like being overstimulated and overwhelmed.

@AskTheDevil @GFerro1965 Me too, but for some reason since 2020, I can't seem to handle too much. Maybe if I wasn't dealing with an emotionally abusive relationship at the same time America has been walking steadily toward Nazi Germany. Oh, yeah. And there's still a plague. Wheee.