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You know, I've been thinking of upgrading my personal protection a bit. Buying better kit and training in its use. I can't imagine a better reason to do so than to have something that will help me defend sisters who are even more discriminated against than I am.

In my shopping cart now.

I'll go looking for an instructor in July.

I addressed this elsewhere in the ensuing shitstorm. It's a question of risk management.

Coming in via Lemmy (lazysoci.al). I don't see any pinned posts.

Yeah, I added a few more bugs into my Cornell Drawers from this.

I really am very sorry for posting this at some level. I thought it was a good take on the thought experiment (further enhanced by some pretty nifty artwork). But really, just mentioning the meme is enough to get all the CHUDs out of the sewers and into the comments and I should have known better.

I go to sleep. I wake up the next morning. And the mods have been the thin pink line.

Thanks, mods!

When I said "nobody's doing that" (with the proviso that yes, surely, SOME people genuinely are that stupid) I meant it. I used myself as an example of someone saying the precise opposite and still having it interpreted as "MISANDRY!!!!!111oneoneoneeleventy!"

With #ManOrBear, you can spend ten thousand lines explaining that you do not believe all men are evil, slavering monsters who will assault women if given the chance to do it and then one line asking the thought experiment and you'll still get the "MISANDRY!!!!!111oneoneoneeleventy!" response. There is no way to communicate the very important message of that thought experiment without having a bunch of "men who might otherwise be allies" freaking out. (Which to my mind calls into question their value as potential allies.)

The real beliefs I think a lot of the people responding secretly hold:

It's not always legal. But another thing Dad taught me was "better to be judged by twelve than carried by six".

I've lived where there were polar bears.

Those are scary.

Still rather meet one of those alone in the wilds than a man I don't know.

Done.

Though my theory is this will attract the misogynists, not drive them off. At least, though, the decent men will understand.

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