What, lol.

My post was about how I’m not attracted to it.

You might want to stop conducting gender studies at bars.

Please, show me your psych degree from the university of 4Chan.

I know and understand where it comes from, but I don’t want to deal with it in a partner.

The chainsaw thing was absolutely because I’m a chick and representative of his overall attitude toward me that evening. Asking if I’d used a chainsaw would have been appropriate, or a quick rundown on starting/stopping would have been fine.

Basically, I ask myself if he would have said the same thing in the same way to a man. I’ve worked on enough jobsites to know that no, that doesn’t happen.

I was like this when I started dating. Popular media and family impacted how I viewed love and relationships, so accustomed to living with controlling narcissists I didn’t understand what healthy affection looked like.

My first relationships were nightmares with similar people who reinforced those ideas. If I was approached by someone with a healthy, balanced mindset, I wouldn’t know what to do with them.

Which is not to provide a solution, but rather some insight. In a sense it’s a good thing you recognize a toxic situation before it begins, in another sense it can be lonely and frustrating, and I can commiserate from the other side

Creative, fun and encouraging. Emotionally mature, respectful, and commited to ongoing self improvement. Everything else is peripheral, but bonus points for writers and artists who are into pc gaming and technology.

My biggest issue has been men socialized with some kind of bias against women, who don’t examine their need to protect and try to make decisions for me. I’m pansexual but lean toward people with dicks.

I learned how to use power tools when I was seven, I’m mechanically inclined, and built my own PC at eighteen. There are an unfortunate number of men who will start a conversation with me from a place of condescension. The last date I went on, he showed me his chainsaw, I asked to try it out and what he said started with “Okay, well it can be a little scary at first because it’s loud…” Another guy told me I was cracking eggs wrong when I made breakfast. I used to be a head chef.

I lose my mind over this, too.

ICE Agents Attack Journalists, is accurate

Confrontation with ICE Agents Ends with One Journalist in Hospital, is still accurate.

This title makes it sound like the journalist tripped and fell on their way to bother some ICE agents.

“I’m ignoring you”

“You’re afraid to argue”

Don’t really need to argue when you do it for me.

And I did respond to your comment before it was removed. If you’re interested in a more in depth discussion on sex and gender so you can avoid unscientific generalizations, I’m happy to engage.

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I don’t think that was it.

“Women’s sports should exclude men because men are physically superior to women.”

“Trans women literally are males, and I wasn’t specifically referring to them; I was referring to all males.”

“Literally no group of people cries wolf as much as transpeople trying to censor anyone who isn’t loyal.”

Disregarding the rest, transwomen are not all born with typical XY chromosomes and the XX/XY karyotypes for sex designation are a lot more complicated than xx=lady and xy=guy.

Aside from extra or damaged chromosomes, chimerism, and other genetic differences, there are mitigating factors in genetic expression that can affect development in a number of ways. As one example, there are women with XY chromosomes who don’t even know it, and recent studies have found a lot more of them than previously thought to exist.

So, even before taking into account gender dysphoria, sex isn’t that cut and dry in the first place.

Yes, you just described how a contract works. It’s pretty clear you didn’t read the whole point because that’s the same thing I said but in worse terms.

I’m done with this thread, but you have a good one.

I mean… they did take her work off the shelves. They did just make it harder to support her work.

Much of the article, and the headline of the article, are about the rules on public image not being unilaterally applied.

I can’t parse your last sentence.

She might have been contracted rather than an employee, and may have already completed her contract. But either way it’s fuzzy. She could have grounds to dispute it, because:

1. She wasn’t acting as a representative of the company or it’s views.

2. She was using her independent social media account.

3. Her sometimes incendiary, political social media presence was a known entity and apparently discussed, and might even be considered part of her brand, unless her contract outlined what she could and couldn’t say for x amount of time after completing her contract.

4. The book was already printed and shipped, their recall could be considered retaliation for her political views, since they don’t apply the same rules across the board, and the recall would hurt her worse than them.

We have the freedom of speech to say the consequences are stupid and unreasonable.

A colloquialism used to justify bad things. I was agreeing with you and adding to the conversation.

“It was a different time.” Wait, no. We still have pedophiles and it’s terrible.

How crazy would it be if we found out he did it for love?

I need this community because hydrohomies is dead over here.

But when you lock in to a new rhythm it’s like a mini orgasm in your brain.

Drums. I got a used electronic kit, a lower-end Roland model, and only play it for me. I learned the basic rhythms so I can throw some tunes on my headphones and try to play along. More meditation than anything else.