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"Ohhh women in media fight too much why do we only value women if they do masculine things like fight?" Well probably because every example you can name of this phenomenon is either fantasy, sci-fi, action or a combination of the three. And those are all genres with a heavy focus on battles and fight scenes. So the characters are going to fight. Regardless of gender. Your average modern workplace romcom isn't going to have any women swinging around swords or shooting people in the face, so maybe watch those instead.

I used to be only rightwing nutjobs saying this, and I know you can't reason with those guys, but now I keep seeing people who should fucking know better repeat these talking points wrapped in a few layers of progressive language about ~valuing feminine skills~ and guys: it's genre conventions! Why are the female characters in this movie with 40% of its runtime dedicated to fightscenes good at fighting? Gee whiz I have no idea. Let's use our brain a little.

It's like if I watched John Wick and was like "It's so toxic how we don't let men process their grief through anything but anger and violence. Why can't male characters go to therapy and heal instead of fighting??? This is the reason for the male suicide crisis" honey you are watching John Wick. What exactly did you expect?

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yeah actually we removed the big bad wolf from the little red riding hood story because portraying violence against minors is really messed up. yeah. yeah also the wolf narrative was really predatory and had had some icky grooming vibes and a fable meant for literal children shouldn’t have implied p*do shit and grape so now little red riding hood goes into the woods and nothing happens and she goes to grandma’s house. don’t worry our kids will still stick to the path and know not to follow to wolves implicitly because we told them to and children should always do as their told. just like little red riding hood does now.

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hey would you like to see a normal house for sale in ontario ? :) :)

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also saw some post earlier today about how gen z isn't doing cults anymore. That's simply not true. It's simply not true. There are actually more cults than ever and they are on the discord app. You don't understand. They are doing struggle sessions in fandom discourds

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Is it appropriate to wear a fish tie to a funeral if the deceased was a naturalist

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Completely personal preference but gonna be real with you, vampires and werewolves and stuff like that just don't hit the same for me without the angst, the guilt, the terror, like what's the point, "oh but what if he was just a puppy," yeah yeah, that's nice, I don't care, what if their very being was tearing them apart from the inside, what if the hunger never stops clawing and clawing and clawing even if you have it under control for the moment, not to say there's not exceptions or variations, those who've come to terms with or revel in their nature or etc., different opportunities for silliness or softness for sure, but to strip *all* manner of horror or discomfort from the lore, it's like wow, where is the appeal, the flavour, I hope you're hungry FOR NOTHING, just like your "vampire" apparently

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the death of 8tracks made you all so bad at making playlists i fear. good ship or character playlist is max 16 songs and devastatingly perfectly crushingly curated. it should make sense musically, if not across the playlist, then at least from song to song. GRADIENTS of genre. think about this before you make a 200 song ship playlist that includes both maroon 5 and mitski. Think on it

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thank you osha thank you shift limits thank you mandatory breaks thank you overtime pay thank you labour laws thank you workers rights thank you unions thank you protesters thank you advocates thank you workers!!!!!!!

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languages that don't distinguish between formal and informal you are missing out on so much petty drama. my grandparents have two neighbours who once got into a huge fight over something honestly pretty trivial, so neighbour A said he was going to revoke neighbour B's du (informal you) privileges. neighbour B was like "okay but can i use du one last time?" and neighbour A was like "yeah go ahead", and neighbour B said "du arschloch" (you asshole). incredible.

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That one episode of MASH where Radar's mother sends him a home video and his mother is played by Gary Burghoff in a wig and dress is some great television.

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i keep seeing think pieces about why later millennials and gen z aren't drinking as much as previous generations and i definitely think there are a bunch of nuanced, overlapping reasons for why that is. but one that i don't see explored often enough in these articles/threads is that at a lot of places, a simple cocktail will cost darn near as much as an entree

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by Vladimir Ryabkov

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approaching 30 really does feel like okay are you gonna be hot and in making diligent efforts in your life as an active participant or are you succumbing and telling yourself you had no other option...

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All I want is for Taylor Swift's major life events to pass by unnoticed by me. Please. This isn't even about the music anymore, I'm just so tired of knowing things about her.

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everyone give thanks to the middle eastern and north african people of over ten thousand years ago for domesticating the african wildcat and providing the entire world with some of the best pets ever 🙏🙏🙏 it was probably the best idea any human has ever had.

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friend of mine was sleeping whilst another friend and i were talking about nonsense. at some point we were talking about how trains honked anyway in the no horn zone that we had both lived in at one point. either without waking up, or waking up so briefly as to not disturb her sleep, our sleeping friend turned over to face us and solemnly intoned "Trains are required by federal law to sound the horn three times at a grade crossing". then she was gone again. we shook her gently- no response, out cold. she didn't remember it in the morning.

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changing your mind about stuff over time is embarrassingggg but especially when it happens in relatively short time and then u have to be like oh yeah that thing i said 4 months ago? i don’t believe any of that anymore. yeah i know i sounded really confident at the time my bad.