FaelynnUpward

Like... I may be genderfucking with uptight straights who are cis because they are uptight straights who are cis but that doesn't mean I am not presenting as a woman. They/them'ing me for being "too manly" while praising me for genderfucking in a skirt isn't enlightened. It makes you a bigot just like the uptight straights who are cis.

He stopped, looked at me, did that nose lift “I’m smelling you” thing, and then he wandered off into the woods. Bears are as smart as human toddlers. They aren’t attacking a human for the fun of it. They’re either starving or you’re on their turf. Either is pretty easy to solve.

With men ya just never know. You line up 100 men and 70 will be varying flavors of perfectly harmless. Of the remaining 30, 20 play nice but are working an angle. 10 are just straight up creeps and 5 of those are likely rapists.

Why is Judaism not broken down into Reconstructionist, Reform, Conservative, Orthodox, etc. Why isn't Islam broken down into Shi'a, Sunni and Ibadi. Why isn't Buddhism broken down into Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana. Why are they JUST "Judaism, Islam and Buddhism". There are big differences between these branches, but only Christianity is granted nuance. Every other religion is a monolith.

It is like coming up to a game of musical chairs. 80% of the chairs have some amount of mud on them. 40% are just covered in mud.

The music starts and everyone rushes to take a seat. There are only so many chairs.

The music stops. Some people are mud free. Some people have a spot or two. Some people’s whole back and legs are covered in mud.

They complain and the response of the clean people is “You should have picked a different chair.”

Maybe there was two sets of music and the university grads got to pick chairs first. Only 60% of the players are university grads though. The 40% who aren’t were always going to either get no chair at all or they were going to get covered in mud. Switching to another chair doesn’t fix their problem because the only chairs left to them are caked in mud.

If an Amazon employee quits because pay and working conditions are poor, they end up in some other warehouse or factory that has similar material conditions. Or a retail place. Or a fast food place. There is no freedom of choice.

We as a society want Burger King to exist. We want Target. We want Amazon. We think the workers there should all just accept shabby treatment and awful wages.

It is not necessary for every feminist statement to include a 'not all men do this' disclaimer. The criticism itself already expresses the possibility that men could choose not to behave in this way.

Unless someone states that men's behavior can't change or that there is inherent evil in being a man, accusing a feminist of 'manhating' because she criticizes men is usually nothing but an attempt to distract from the content of the criticism itself.

One difference is that English is a product of multiple languages mashing into each other that don’t follow the same rules.

Celtic was violently mashed with Latin. Anglo-Saxon (following German rules) was violently mashed into Latinized Celtic. Then Danish kinda sorta showed up and while similar to Anglo-Saxon was different enough to introduce new rules. In quick succession French was violently mashed into Anglo-Saxon and became the upper class language of England for a time.

English is hardly the only languages to undergo these sorts of changes but the base language components that make up Middle/Modern English being quite different is what makes it so bizarre and seemingly nonsensical.

Contrast it with, say, Aboriginal Australian or Hawaiian… languages with hundreds or even thousands of years of near isolation. Hawaiians mostly interacted with other Polynesians, which didn’t modify their language much since they were also Polynesian.

You take modern French and it has certainly been impacted by its geographical position in Europe. Still, it has mostly maintained its specific syntax (at least, the syntax of Parisian French). Regionally it has quirks that it gained from interaction with Flemish, Celtic in Brittany, German along the Rhine or Occitan languages in the south.