theblueredditrefugee
There is a trauma in being feared - ask any Muslim who was in the US circa 2001-2008
Not fond of this "both sides" attitude - you don't see women threatening the safety of men: the onus is on men to ensure that women feel safe around them. It's not enough to not hurt a woman, but to ensure the woman is always in a situation where she feels like you aren't a threat. Don't isolate her from a crowd as there is safety in numbers. Be confrontational against men who male her feel unsafe. Keep space so she doesn't have to fear sudden movements from you. Etc etc etc. It's work to navigate in such an environment, but it isn't impossible.
If you want to engage with women on more equal footing, your enemy is the men who are making them feel unsafe, not the women for feeling unsafe. This is the only viable path forward.
Being a straight woman in this day and age is so unfortunate, I feel bad for y'all ngl
Damn, lemmyworld really is becoming a right wing trashpile
Yeah, this way the US gets to control the algos and surveillance
Testbed for all sorts of policies!
Things learned:
✅ Democracy 🚫 Slavery 🚫 Political machines ✅ Railroads ✅ Splitting up monopolies 🚫 Free market healthcare ✅ Cars in low density areas 🚫 Cars in high density areas ✅ Buses in high density areas
Maybe the secret is they accumulated a ton of shitty experimental policies! All we have to do to leapfrog them is to simply bring back policies that are known to be shit!
It's the great circle of innovation!
👀👀👀 maybe we should amend our constitution to grant the right to buffoonery! No, require it even!
They'll get it eventually