*Benyw - Welsh (noun, adjv ) [gram: Fem.] Female

So ok look. The point is not the flared leg by itself. These cannot be yoga pants. These are, and you have to understand this if you are too young to have worn them, BLUE JEANS. And this was the last years before all jeans were 70% spandex.

They were denim, and they weren't bell bottoms. They hung loose from the knee in a way that would make a wizard envious. We all walked around like we were wearing hakama. And they dragged on the ground. That was important. Ragged cuffs. If your jeans weren't so long that they had ratty cuffs, they were embarrassingly short.

And the thing about denim is that it's a twill weave and it's cotton. So not only does it hold a lot of water, it wicks. Walking around in these suckers on a wet day could get you wet to the knees even if you never stepped in a puddle.

Then you'd go inside and take off your shoes and try to avoid letting your freezing, wet, filthy pant legs touch your skin.

Closeted AMAB non-binary = regular looking man.

No wonder they feel like a predator going to women’s spaces when they are a man. Women’s spaces aren’t for men.

Can you guess how this went.

Of course; they immediately got to telling me about how much they loved this feature — but they have to be wary because some women have declined rides after seeing them! They told me about how disrespectful it was to be turned down, and how they were threatened by these women…immediately before telling me about the male driver who was staring up their skirt on a drive (which is a whole different issue lmfao).

Mind you, this guy is probably 6’2” 200lbs, usually wearing some sort of long maxi dress with a massive curly bun & no makeup or jewelry. Passing is not something on the radar and never once have they ever claimed (to me) to actually identify as a woman. But they are upset — more so at the refusing woman than the leering man — that they have to “be wary with women only drivers.” Like. You literally cannot make this shit up.

Brother. No fucking shit you get turned down. They are expecting women. That is the entire point of this feature. Women driving women. I’m not sure if they fail to understand that women drivers are just as vulnerable as women riders, but expecting every single woman on said feature to make an exception for you is fucking ridiculous. As fucking ridiculous as “not all men.” And to paint these women who decline like they are equal to or worse than the vile men who leer and make jokes and kidnap and rape and kill their (majority women) riders? Like you have to be wary of these women who just want to drive women? Comical!

okay yes

Therefore it is praxis to support all taboo sexual practices no matter what they are because being taboo automatically is anti-conservative and therefore progressive

okay no

The american government pumps out so much propaganda about china that is blatantly misleading

Okay yes

Therefore the solution is to start consuming china’s government propaganda unquestioningly

Okay no

People who are overweight are mistreated interpersonally, societally, and by the medical system

Okay yes

Therefore it is praxis to get as fat as possible and all health risks are fake

Okay no

My initial research (mostly news articles) all said that there’s no benefit to sex-segregated education. They acknowledged outliers like that school for young black men with such incredible graduation statistics, but said that, generally, there’s no benefit.

But then I kept looking. And it turns out that yeah, if you look at all children overall, there’s no benefit - because sex-segregated education is great for girls, and terrible for boys.

Girls in all-girl schools get better grades, have closer and healthier social lives, and have better mental health.

Boys in all-boy schools get worse grades and get in trouble more.

When attempting to make sense of this, journalists and researchers usually fall back on “girls do better because they’re not distracted by boys/boy drama, and boys do worse because there’s no girls to impress.”

Which is ridiculous, of course, because these effects are seen even grade school - 8 year old boys are not doing well in school to impress girls. It’s also ridiculous because teenage boys are also not doing well in school to impress girls. That’s not how teenagers work.

The answer is obvious to women. Girls learn better away from boys because they are not being assaulted, harassed, belittled, or compared to their male peers at every turn. Boys do worse away from girls because, without a socially acceptable target, they turn their antisocial urges on each other. Even adult men do this when separated from women - see hazing scandals at fraternities, or the constant man-on-man sexual harassment that is just “part of military culture.”

far better than the ludicrous notion that gender (culturally variable and socially imposed roles for the two sexes) can somehow be both a social construct and a special innate part of you separate from your body;