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  • I agree. I’m talking more morally and less legally. I’ve seen countless videos where a woman is feebly tapping or shoving a man, the man is clearly physically unbothered and unhurt, but his ego is bruised, so he KOs her with one punch. Then the comments come flooding in about how she deserved it, “equal rights equal fights” etc.

    It’s not a fair fight. Of course there are exceptions, there are exceptions to everything. But for most people most of the time, a woman hitting a man is nowhere near as physically impactful as a man hitting a woman. The ‘toolset’ is undeniably different.

    If a 5-foot man slaps a 6-foot man, and the 6-foot man laughs and then beats the shit out of the smaller guy and stomps on his head, most people would look down on the bigger man for taking it too far with someone he could easily beat and who presented no real physical threat to him. It’s like that. I’m not denying the agency of the woman, or saying that her assaulting a man is fine, it’s that the response to it from the man is usually an order of magnitude more severe with half the effort. And again, I know there are exceptions to this. Men can be abused and beaten by women, domestic violence against men should be taken more seriously.

    In street/bar fights, where a woman is picking a fight with a man, the man is rightly restrained by societal pressure to not unload on her the way he would if it were a man picking a fight with him. This isn’t sexism or baseless gender roles or any of that, it’s because most of the time, untrained men are wielding a sledgehammer to an untrained woman’s carpentry hammer (untrained in combat sports, I mean). So in that way, it’s not a double-standard despite sounding like one, no more than it’s a double standard to not beat the shit out of another man half your size when you would beat the shit out of him for the same offence if he were your size or bigger. Not that we should beat anyone up, of course! But it happens and will always happen, so it’s nice to have at least one broad rule in an otherwise-ruleless endeavour: men shouldn’t beat the shit out of women unless they really need to, to defend themselves from an actual threat, a threat to something more than their ego or temper.

    P.S. Thanks for replying without calling me a misandrist or telling me to kill myself 💗 Genuinely appreciate it!







  • I don’t care if people - even strangers - see me naked. I don’t walk around nude or anything, not because of shame or embarrassment, but because I don’t wanna inflict such a visage on anyone against their will. But someone having seen my dick doesn’t make me embarrassed at all. For example, if someone walks in on me changing, or if someone yanks my pants down as a prank out in public, none of that bothers me in the slightest. In fact, I sometimes feel like I have to pretend to be a little embarrassed just because I worry that people will think I’m into public exhibitionism or something. It’s better for the other person if I pretend to be shocked/panicking. It’s weirder for them if I just stand there with my shlong out and start talking to them like nothing is out of the ordinary. But I really don’t give a shit.








  • 58008@lemmy.worldtoOut of the loop@lemmy.worldWhat's up with Reddit?
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    I deleted my 5-year-old account just now. I was suspended for 3 days because of a comment I made in a post about actual Nazis, in which I called them bitchmade pussies. Real Nazis, screaming the N-word and waving swastika flags. I was “bullying” them, reddit said. I still have the text of the offending comment here, if you think I said something crazy:

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    Bitchmade pussies. Shouting racial slurs and talking about being “ready to fight”, knowing full well they have the cops protecting their worthless fucking asses, and they actually say “the cops will escort us” like that isn’t the most fucking weak cowardly shit you could ever say when you’re supposed to be up for a fight. If they had any fucking balls whatsoever, and if they had an even partially-coherent ideology, the cops would be enemy #1 to them, not their fucking schoolyard adult supervisors who will prevent the other kids from beating the shit out of them for running their mouths. Bootlicking cunts.

    And then to have the audacity to whoop and holler like they achieved something as they scramble into the back of a fuckin’ truck to escape. And look at them with their little uniforms, what the fuck kinda pissy little bitchboys have to go out and buy special matching shirts and leggings to show how scary they are? I’ve seen more threatening outfits in Spirit Halloween stores. The one dude actually sounded genuinely worried that a protestor got a hold of one of their flags. Like, “that’s 11 dollars down the drain and I haven’t got any more of my grandmother’s electronics to pawn” levels of concern.

    Fucking hell, what are they expecting to accomplish? They are PUSSIES. Frightened little cunts who scuttle away like roaches in a kitchen when the light is switched on. They aren’t doing anything but giving cops overtime pay and providing a fun outlet for frustration for the rest of society when non-racists make a sport of trying to get their hands on them before the cops swoop in and rescue them.

    I’ve had venereal diserase that was scarier than these expelled reddit mod-ass cunts.

     

    Shit, maybe it was that last line that irked them! Regardless, I took that as a sign that it was time to move on, permanently. This wasn’t the first issue I’ve had with reddit of course, but it was the final straw.




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    StepsChange is a charity that acts as a middleman between you and your debtors. The charity will negotiate reasonable and specially-tailored monthly payments for your debtors, which - depending on your income and savings and all that - will not cripple you every month. You can pay off what you owe and still have money left to life your fuckin’ life. Yes it’s a charity, but they don’t give you free money, you pay your own debts, but you just do it in a way that isn’t ruining you.

    I’ve seen this work with multiple family members, so I can 100% vouch for StepsChange and the dream-like positive change it made in their lives. It takes what amounted to many hundreds of pounds a month and reduces it to like 30. It’s insane how much they can help you. Please contact them if you’re in financial trouble.

    Similar charities must exist elsewhere, so look into it if you’re not from these parts. There is always hope.