Women don't need to do everything a man can do 55 comments
ewqua
· 3 years ago
As for the "women tend to be better at different things than men" – even if you were able to prove it was nature and not just nurture, it's in no way a green light for society-wide policy or rules whatsoever. Even if 99% of women said they'd want to be housewives, freedom of choice should be preserved, if for that 1% alone.
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Women don't need to do everything a man can do 55 comments
ewqua
· 3 years ago
Ah, the good old "BuT pEoPlE LiKe YoU!!!1!" Lmao. If I had a dollar for every time you've used this "argument" and accused me or @general_failure personally of causing everything that's wrong with the world instead of addressing the topic of the conversation, I'd go out of my way to disagree with you publicly more often because it'd be a hell of a lucrative job.
And just for the record, you're attributing those opinions to me incorrectly. (I'm in shock, it's not like you've done this before... Or every time...) I'm actually against affirmative action, I think the better way is to systemically improve the education system so that people from economically disadvantaged backgrounds have a better chance at success themselves. Pretty sure I've voiced this here a few times actually.
And just for the record, you're attributing those opinions to me incorrectly. (I'm in shock, it's not like you've done this before... Or every time...) I'm actually against affirmative action, I think the better way is to systemically improve the education system so that people from economically disadvantaged backgrounds have a better chance at success themselves. Pretty sure I've voiced this here a few times actually.
Fatties 3 comments
Women don't need to do everything a man can do 55 comments
ewqua
· 3 years ago
Yea true there's been a surge of tradwife pick-mes lately. Which, y'know, if you wanna be a tradwife I totally support that decision and wish you the best. But don't shove that shit down other people's throats as something women were "created" for or whatever. That's just fundamentally anti-freedom.
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Women don't need to do everything a man can do 55 comments
This is what schools need to teach 4 comments
Speak the truth 2 comments
ewqua
· 3 years ago
Dang imagine being so thin skinned you go after someone who probably said something like "This Adolf fellow is a bloody wanker, innit?"
Reject modernity 1 comments
ewqua
· 3 years ago
The one in the middle with the spiky beard though. I can imagine him having like a really nasal-y laugh.
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History Channel at 3 AM: 6 comments
Its about right 4 comments
ewqua
· 3 years ago
I used to have pretty bad social anxiety (getting shaky hands and cramped stomach, having to psych myself up for 30 minutes just for a phone call) but then I realized just how much people do not give a shit.
I know it won't work for everyone, you can't simply reason your way out of a mental illness, but for me this was a total lightbulb moment and now my anxiety only ever rears its ugly head when it's a completely new situation or an extremely stressful one.
So for anyone who needs to hear it right now: people aren't judging your every word and move, they're too preoccupied with their own stuff to care about a particular interaction. If you fumble your words or stutter a little bit, they probably won't even remember it the next time you meet. Remember how you felt when it happened to someone else: you probably thought "it's fine, can happen to anyone" right? Guess what, other people are thinking the same (unless they're Karens lol). So don't judge yourself too hard, you're awesome <3
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I know it won't work for everyone, you can't simply reason your way out of a mental illness, but for me this was a total lightbulb moment and now my anxiety only ever rears its ugly head when it's a completely new situation or an extremely stressful one.
So for anyone who needs to hear it right now: people aren't judging your every word and move, they're too preoccupied with their own stuff to care about a particular interaction. If you fumble your words or stutter a little bit, they probably won't even remember it the next time you meet. Remember how you felt when it happened to someone else: you probably thought "it's fine, can happen to anyone" right? Guess what, other people are thinking the same (unless they're Karens lol). So don't judge yourself too hard, you're awesome <3
Goldens are golden 5 comments
ewqua
· 3 years ago
Yeah, and the same goes for skincare. Both of my parents had very little acne as teens so when I got acne, they didn't get that it was just hormones, they thought I was a lazy slob who didn't wash my face and forced me to use a bunch of skincare products that messed my skin up soooo much more. Now I wash my face with regular solid soap, moisturize with baby oil and exfoliate like twice a month, and my skin looks better than ever. Less is more, having a 20 step skincare routine every day isn't good for your skin or your wallet.
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The mental gymnastics of cancel culture astounds me 15 comments
ewqua
· 3 years ago
Lmao, good one. The people trying to silence any criticism or disagreement with "you're trying to cancel me, this is cancel culture" are the same tho, just sayin'.
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Be very careful when predicting the future 3 comments
Goldens are golden 5 comments
ewqua
· 3 years ago
Don't wanna sound like a preachy hippie wanker here so I won't rant too much, I'll just say that my hair got a lot nicer after I stoped using commercial shampoos. Turns out that using chemicals that aggressively strip your hair of all sebum isn't very good. So yeah maybe the overpriced crappy hair products are the problem rather than the solution.
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Make the whole damn world this way, really 43 comments
ewqua
· 3 years ago
Good point, yeah. Reactionaries often don't realize that the weird "SJW" they're reacting to is a troll or a sock puppet.
Make the whole damn world this way, really 43 comments
ewqua
· 3 years ago
Agreed, the small character limit is an absolutely evil genius move if your goal is to fuck up society and discourse. It's baffling to me that so much discourse is still happening at that hellhole of a website.
Furthermore, since a lot of people were either banned (some for better reasons than others) or left on their own and went on to other websites, echo chambers were created and Twitter itself became an echo chamber for the wokes. So if you look just at Twitter it will seem like the overton window has shifted but that's not at all true in reality. People running off to their own online echo chambers and getting used to not having their opinions challenged is a problem although tbh I don't know what the solution would be.
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Furthermore, since a lot of people were either banned (some for better reasons than others) or left on their own and went on to other websites, echo chambers were created and Twitter itself became an echo chamber for the wokes. So if you look just at Twitter it will seem like the overton window has shifted but that's not at all true in reality. People running off to their own online echo chambers and getting used to not having their opinions challenged is a problem although tbh I don't know what the solution would be.
Anon took the right decision 9 comments
Make the whole damn world this way, really 43 comments
ewqua
· 3 years ago
I know, right? I always see these overblown reactions to some idiots' stupid takes online, and every goddamn anti-SJW reactionary is like "ThE LeFt iS sAyInG ThAt"... Like dude, the left isn't a hive mind, in fact the overwhelming majority of leftists are tired of the woke performative stuff that doesn't actually solve the real problems. Making a movie character gay won't help people who live paycheck to paycheck and can't afford healthcare, but the online part of both sides of the political spectrum tend to react to the former more than the latter. I guess the internet just tends to really overblow things, like when some stupid shit a few dozen people do is suddenly "a trend" or whatever, but over here in reality nobody actually cares. I mean when was the last time someone mentioned this internet bullshit irl to you? In my experience whenever someone mentions it, it's to make fun of it.
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Make the whole damn world this way, really 43 comments
ewqua
· 3 years ago
When was that, exactly? People got offended by someone with a slightly different skin color drinking out of the same water fountain. Hell, a dress I'm working on is based on a painting from 1884 which is famous because it offended all of Parisian high society. The painter and the model were both "cancelled". People have always been offended by stuff that was considered bordering or out of the social norms. In fact I would argue western society is generally more tolerant than ever, and all the whiners are concentrated on Twatter anyway, which you can easily choose to ignore.
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