Do you want like names or something? They’re the people you’ve voted for (and also the other people in the ballots), the people you’ve worked (or will work) for, people you’ve paid rent to…
Is it useful, tho? Whom for? Because I only see it dividing the oppressed people, blaming each others as if they were the oppressors, when they are not. It’s only useful for the real oppressors.
I read your comment fully and carefully. I ain’t no troll, I’m really discussing in good faith and I think that my believes are not very far from yours. I’m saying that equating patriarchy with sexism is just wrong, and has the undesired effects I mention in my previous comment. On that line, also, I don’t agree either with equating feminism with ‘equality’, because it is not, it is the fight to better women’s lives, which is absolutely fine! I’m not an anti-feminist and I don’t think any of that crap that it’s women supremacy or whatever, but it definitely isn’t trying to better men’s position in the matters where they are at a disadvantage, and it doesn’t have to, that’s why it’s called feminism.
Feminist theorist, sociologists, or anthropologists trying to push these meanings, in a totally artificial way, is not helping feminism or equality, it’s pushing people toward sexism and other quite bad -isms.
The patriarchy is not synonymous with men and boys. It is the system that upholds strict gender roles for both men and women. The patriarchy is detrimental to men and boys as well.
It means literally being ‘ruled by the father’. I know languages are living, evolving things, and words’ meanings change and drift, that’s why when we want one to hold its meaning we use dead languages like Ancient Greek. The word that fits that definition is ‘sexism’.
Don’t play coy. Those cultures are run by men in positions of power. The law-makers help hold up patriarchal norms.
I am not, and I’ll give you an example from one of those cultures I’m closer with: in my country gypsies (the Calé people) are a patriarchal culture, in the sense that they have literal ‘patriarchs’, kind of like community leaders with a bit of extra-official power. But in most gypsy families I’ve met it was the women the ones that owned everything: homes, cars, bank accounts… and the keepers and enforcers of some quite barbaric, in my opinion, traditions and rituals (practiced by many, but not all) against women and girls, when they could literally just walk away with everything if they so wanted, they usually don’t legalise the marriages because they don’t trust the payos’ (non-gypsy) laws and system (can’t blame them) so they wouldn’t even have to divorce. But they don’t, and if a young woman strays from tradition they are the first to make her pay. They are as responsible as the men on maintaining the sexism.
I’m a woman.
Ok. I already suspected that. But did you have to demand being able to wear pants? Or are you including yourself with the ones that did it because of a shared (gender) identity? This is just a me thing, but I just find the latter weird, not just for gender but for any other facet of someone identity, probably because I lack the identity part of my brain, or it’s not developed, I think.
The only reason women are allowed to wear pants now is because we demanded it.
Many women are still not allowed to wear pants. Also, bit of a tangent, but is that like an ‘anti-royal we’ or are you old as fuck?
Take a wild guess as to who were the ones to make those laws.
I don’t have to guess, I have relation with people from cultures where it’s not acceptable yet for women to wear whatever they want. It is enforced by their whole community, not only men, and it, the community, also imposes strict rules on how to live for men too.
I didn’t mean it in the sense that there’s no sexism anymore, because there absolutely is. But every time I heard, or read, someone using the word ‘patriarchy’ is to spout some culture-war nonsense that doesn’t help fight sexism at all, quite the opposite—if it has any effect is pushing boys and young men (and some girls and women) that don’t know any better into the arms of conservatism. These lads are not your oppressors, and they have no more say than you or me into how society works, but if you treat them as if they were your enemy many of them will eventually become your enemy.
What are you talking about? Many women wear pants, but they have more options so some of them wear skirts ,or shorts, or ‘skorts’… men don’t wear anything but pants because they will lose every sponsor in a matter of minutes. Somehow men having fewer options than women/been told what to wear is men’s fault and patriarchy or whatever, idk. Kinda ironic given that, iirc, it was invented in Scotland.
What about a fart? I always fart when I pee.
How is it not for a 57 year old car? Not even 2k a year…
That’s what I put on my 206 (that had already quite a bit more on it) on 7 years, including 2020 (Covid) when I barely drove it. I bought a used 2015 car last year with 75k miles, and I consider that ‘almost brand new’. Both with 1.6L 4 cylinder engines, quite smaller than the beast op is talking about that must have a 5-6 litres v8 at least…
The interface was fancier than nano’s, but still text. It didn’t draw pixels but only text characters, so it falls under text-based user interface (TUI). And also you could use a mouse to go clicking things, if you had a DOS mouse driver. The ‘pointer’, being it a TUI, was just the same character with inverted colours.
If you feel nostalgic there exists qb64. It’s almost identical to the original qbasic, with some added modern things, available for win, Mac, and Linux and compiled (transpiled) instead of interpreted, and it can run gorillas.bas!
Agree with everything, except one thing: qbasic had a text-based user interface, and also you could use a mouse within it if you had a dos mouse driver.
I don’t think that’s it.
It is. Gas in Iowa right now is still cheaper than it was a year ago in California, your anecdotal data notwithstanding.
Might’ve been just a weed cake. Germans have a particular sense of humour.
Debian. Is. Love. 🌀❤️
An electric arc is plasma.
I also think this is it. I have a couple of friends that buy these kind of products, and they are also the only gym goers I know. So for my tiny sample it’s an absolute one to one correlation.
adding “arts” to STEM is akin to “but all lives matter”
It most certainly is not.
but that’s not what we’re talking about
I’m talking about a particular genre or theme I made up out of a word play. What are you talking about? And, more importantly, how including Arts with STEM is on the level of white supremacist dog whistles?
You’re free to make STEMpunk a thing if you want. That would be fun, ironically that would be slightly on line with creating ‘all lives matter’ to oppose BLM.
I’m not sure, current or very-near-future inspired tech + Current or near future (higher because it’s rising) inequality + Punk, as in rebellious, anti-authoritarian, DIY spirit…
As I said in another comment, I don’t know exactly how to define it, or even if it should have a definition so strict as to define the exact time, could be more or less futuristic. But I think I could do the opposite, I’d know if something is STEAMpunk when I see it.
Maybe a subset of the sci fi could be, but most of it isn’t very punk. Belters in the expanse could fit a spacepunk theme. Star Wars or Star Trek are not punk at all even if some species or characters could be considered so, they’re usually portrayed as the baddies and the main theme is quite the opposite.
It wasn’t me. But personally I think it’s nice the A is there. Punk is inherently a bit artsy already, but you can take it up a notch still.
I’d given you the benefit of doubt but I don’t think anymore you are engaging in good faith. I’ve acknowledged that’s the meaning many people give to ‘feminism’, and said that in my opinion, in practice, it is not, that’s just a lie, it is not true at all, and I explained why I think that. And you’re just throwing at me your feminist-theory-dictionary definitions at me. That’s not discussing, you’re not addressing any point I made.