The Magpies Nest

On tumblr, a site that supposedly doesn't have porn, will literally keep porn posts as long as the porn is in a reblog instead of the original post.

And yet this post not only has all the images deleted, but all of the reblogs are deleted in the notes and op is deactivated. This post got more of a thorough response than the porn posts that have already been reported to staff. That's where tumblr staff see the real issue: a singer pointing out that men can get cosmetic surgery before women's health needs.

When women complain that men are not doing their share of the chores it’s always: have you tried communicating that with them? Have you spoken to them about it? Have you given them a list of chores to do? Basically, have you done everything humanly to make it easier for him to do these chores?

I saw another one recently where a woman was complaining that her husband asked her three times when a certain appointment was and she said things like this put the mental load on her and was just draining. Basically every single comment was some variation of telling her she needed to put it in a calendar, saying that he probably has other things on his mind because of work or male-dominated chores (when the oil needs changing, when the grass needs mowing, etc), or basically telling her that he has a job so remembering all of this is hard and she needs to help him. (Or just insulting her.)

Meanwhile, I saw a post where a guy said that his wife always ate his fries when they got fast food so instead of doing anything about it, he hid the fries or ate them before she could get any. The responses? SHE needs to communicate better about what foods she wants in the future. On a different post where a woman was complaining that a man was eating all the snacks she would buy for herself, no matter how much asked him not to and actively hid the snacks, half of the suggestions were that she needed to buy more snacks because he clearly wanted them even if he wasn’t communicating it properly. So women eating men’s food and not asking for their own is poor communication and she needs to communicate better. But men eating women’s women’s food and not not asking for their own is poor communication but women should understand that it means he wants the snacks and get them?

Then when men don’t pull their weight in the household it’s: maybe he’s stressed from work. Maybe he’s depressed. Maybe he doesn’t know what needs doing. You, as the woman, need to communicate with him about this.

Don’t even get me started on the fact that people still assume that men are working and paying for everything while women remain at home, despite most households having two working adults.

'Another acquaintance, an American living in the Pacific Northwest, once told me that when she took her one-year-old son to a baby playgroup, where babies had been brought by their mothers, she noticed that the mothers of baby girls were very restraining, constantly telling the girls 'don't touch' or 'stop and be nice', and she noticed that the baby boys were encouraged to explore more and were not restrained as much and were almost never told to 'be nice'. Her theory was that parents unconsciously start very early to teach girls how to be, that baby girls are given less room and more rules and baby boys more room and fewer rules.'

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Some unemployed guys created an anonymous account on insta where they literally just said the most vile things about these girls from the grade above mine, and the school administration didn't do jackshit. The same administration that cares so much about their image and would literally crucify a student for criticising them publicly or saying anything negative about the school online does nothing when male students go around sexualising female students on social media

These twelfth graders in my school literally made a list where they ranked girls and called them 'unrapeable' and these guys were completely protected by the schools vice principal who literally defended them. These 3 guys later went on to post a street interview where they called feminism retarded. They've left now, but the principal had a thing where she basically threatened all the students not to circulate that video

There are several instances where boys from my grade and the grade above have sexually assaulted or groped girls, and we have cameras and like a hundred eyewitnesses to corroborate it. The worst punishment these guys get is maybe a week of getting suspended and detention once. These guys who were caught vaping in the bathroom got expelled, which is insane. Literally molesting a girl is seen as a lesser crime than using a peach vape

Even during our history class, these males were discussing why there are no prominent women in my country's history. The obvious answer is that they were deprived of education, representation, freedom, liberty and suffrage. But these incels were openly speaking about how they believe women are bad leaders. And the teacher didn't even stop them

Everytime a teacher or principal lets a boy abuse, assault, insult, or degrade women, without holding him accountable at all, it sets a really shitty precedent that violence and hatred towards women is not just tolerable, but also normal. They're quite literally breeding a new generation of rapists and misogynists.

But then she has to concede that this new technology, like most others, also affected women negatively because men immediately started using it for porn (& to harm women, since that is the main purpose of porn). “The diffusion of the telephone facilitated the intrusion of pornography into the home, not only through intrusive and abusive telephone calls made by men to women, but also through the development of sexual services over the phone.” The same thing happened with the internet of course, but before the internet there was also the French Minitel service, which was a kind of small TV screen linked to your telephone that allowed for proto-emailing and instant messaging—and a study by the French government found that the Minitel “vastly contributed to the propagation of hardcore pornography”, notably the sale and purchase of paedophilic content.

OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.