If anyone is looking for something specific to preserve, consider Our Bodies, Ourselves. It’s a seminal feminist work that seeks to educate women on their bodies. It’s extremely comprehensive, thicker than most textbooks.

Tolerance is a peace treaty. Once one party voids it, they are no longer protected by it. Very “so much for the tolerant left” of you.

Lmao Jesus it didn’t take long for the mask to come off. Holy false equivalency and strawmaning, batman.

That would make sense if the mom wasn’t also there parenting, trying to make some good memories with her family. Instead, creepy note guy ignores her entirely, which is very inline with what I’m talking about, unfortunately. Moms will and do get straight ignored while heaps of praise is lavished on dads just for being there with the kids. It’s a pretty common experience, and I would feel pretty annoyed if I were the mom and I found that note before husband did.

Men getting excessive praise just for being a decent parent is extremely different than men just getting compliments. Let’s engage in good faith here.

I mean, mom was there too and presumably has at least half of parenting influence on the kids. Why no paragraphs of praise for her, or even a mention beyond the fact that she guided in the trailer (which is only in there so the writer could compliment the dad more on getting it ‘first try’)?

Because of the implicit assumption that yeah, obviously moms are good at parenting–just business as usual–but when a DAD is good at it, strangers take the time to write a whole diatribe about it. Meanwhile mom gets no praise, she’s just doing what she’s supposed to in this guy’s opinion.

Shit is fucked, exhausting, demoralizing, and so pervasive.

EDIT: MRAs alive and thriving here on Lemmy, as always

I’m not sure if it’s quite what they were talking about, but the first season or two of the original Ghost Hunters was a lot like this. They would at least pay lip service to try and disprove the ghost, and I believe they even left a location and straight up told the owner that it probably wasn’t haunted, just old

I’m all jacked up on mountain dew

Unfortunately you won’t die with us, you’ll die much sooner, not choking on a lack of oxygen or dying of dehydration.

We need more elders like those in Japan who volunteered to clean up nuclear waste because they wouldn’t have to live with the long-term side effects of being exposed to radiation.

As elders, y’all wouldn’t have to live as long in jail ¯\(ツ)/¯

If you see him, no you didn’t. Meaning don’t snitch, like the NYC pedestrians protecting Spiderman’s identity in Spiderman 2 when his mask gets torn apart. “Carefully, he’s a hero”

I have never heard or seen in all the election coverage Harris supporters calling themselves that. Nor do you need to get snarky when someone calls you out for maybe being a little flurmy, even if you didn’t mean to be. The bear, indeed.

I mean, it’s all there in your comment? Girl boss is about as gendered a term as you can get. Obviously you didn’t invent it.

Idk why you made it gendered but ok

Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe could be a good place to start. The central bit being told is about the abduction and murder of a woman, but most of the book is really about the history of the IRA and the Troubles, giving context to the abduction.

There are some truly terrible remixes on repeat in TJ Maxx/Marshall’s/Homegoods as well.

Be so serious, Mariah Carey’s is far from the worst Christmas song in retail.

He wrote this for himself in his Meditations. So he wasn’t telling this to anyone but himself, therefore not ‘gaslighting’ anyone. Beyond being a roman emperor, he is also a pretty respected philosopher, and that generally doesn’t happen without having something interesting to say on the subject.

Idk, I think Aragorn is a great example. As is Samwise.

Women are not good for the first time giving birth to the bathroom lol

The trick is that they are working another job, and their partner is probably working two as well 🙃