@Auspice said in RL things I love:
@Aria said in RL things I love:
I'm not sure which I find funnier and/or more terrifying -- them thinking that's actually how any of it works or that a bunch of people looked at these assholes and went, "By golly, they really seem to have things together. We should elect them to Be In Charge."
You forgot option 3: that someone actually married them.
Women willingly marrying men is the best argument I have against the idea that sexual orientation is a choice.
@Aria said in RL things I love:
@GreenFlashlight Let's not forget these are some of the same idiots who think that periods are like bodily waste functions -- that women can just hold it in until it's convenient, but are apparently so repulsive and inconsiderate that we can't be bothered and would rather just bleed all over ourselves and everything/everyone around us.
I'm not sure which I find funnier and/or more terrifying -- them thinking that's actually how any of it works or that a bunch of people looked at these assholes and went, "By golly, they really seem to have things together. We should elect them to Be In Charge."
No one ever went broke underestimating the masses, and all that.
@Aria said in RL things I love:
So some dumbfuck lawmakers in Tennessee are expressing concerns about classifying tampons as a necessity -- and thus removing the sales tax on them -- because they're concerned that women will just go crazy at such fabulous discount and buy 'too many', whatever that means.
Wait wait wait
So, like
These dudes think that jamming cotton rods into my bleeding, bloated, cramping body is such a pleasure I would do it willy-nilly but for the 7% tax rate making tampons so expensive it reminds me to treat them as the rare pleasure they are rather a wild indulgence????
I am falling out of my chair laughing here but men, seriously, I say you need to collect your brothers and sort them the fuck out, please. Stage an intervention.
@Prototart said in The Game Game:
it’s like Highlander rules games have to cut each other’s heads off but then they wake up in the far future and it’s confusing so i didn’t watch it all
I do not believe that someone who likes early Image comics gave up on Highlander in the middle of it.
@Arkandel said in The Work Thread:
I already plan to ask her directly for feedback on what we can do, but I don't want the onus to be on a new hire.
I am not trans, but in general, when someone asks me how to best show respect to me, I do not feel that I have been burdened. I feel that the other person is listening to me and taking my needs seriously, as well as dealing with me like I'm an individual rather than a homogeneous demographic.
Otherwise, I guess just make it clear that you will not tolerate transphobic behavior, but in a discreet way that doesn't make the new woman feel singled out. Maybe don't mention anything at all, and just bring the hammer down if someone breaks the rules.
@popes said in ISO: a comics/superheroes MU* (give me your recs):
Reading the ESH wiki. Why is Mr. Sinister a banned character, beyond the fact that Nate Essex is a creepy fuck?
I do not know, but given that they ban "sex kittens" and animal characters because someone might be tempted to TS with them, I am guessing they ban Mr. Sinister to prevent people from running plots about mutant breeding programs that get described in prurient detail.
@Prototart said in ISO: a comics/superheroes MU* (give me your recs):
(it has been a long term thought experiment between @GreenFlashlight and me to try to turn Mantra into a char that isn’t so weird and oogy)
I hadn't been as aware of the Malibuverse's inciting power event, so if I had it all to do over, every hero in the Malibuverse would be infused with, uh, whatever the goo was that gave Prime his powers: everyone who has powers has that goo inside them, giving them an alternate form in addition to the powers.
That way Mantra can be an actual middle-aged woman who has to think about how she feels that when she's a superhero, she abandons her body to assume the form of a twenty-something porn star with a barely-there costume that apparently amplifies her magic. I really want to see a story some day about a woman who's had to struggle all her life with the realities of falling short of beauty standards and having to make peace with being a human being in a world that wants her to be a sex fantasy suddenly gaining super powers that incidentally turn her into the sex fantasy she doesn't want to be but also kinda wants to be. Her powers make her a male power fantasy and she feels guilty about liking it as much as she does.
(Yes, this is autobiographical as I deal with similar issues of knowing I shouldn't wish I look like a magazine cover but still wishing I looked like a magazine cover.)
@nyctophiliac said in Buying Shit:
I keep hearing the "women's pants don't have pockets" argument and I have to ask myself - where the heck yall shopping? Is this an American thing I missed? Do I just not buy the right type of pants?
Maybe it's a cultural thing, but in America, women's pants pockets are generally too small and tight to fit your hands into, let alone a phone or your car keys or whatever, because women's pants prioritize displaying the shape of our hips and thighs over being useful as clothing objects.
@Rinel said in Buying Shit:
It's not a guy thing. It's a men's clothing sucks thing.
Must disagree. Men have the best pants, and I'm tempted to say they have the best selection of tee shirts in terms of licensed properties.
What did you find sucky about it, though?
@Auspice said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
I need to convince myself that it's OK that I don't have a job yet. It's only been a week.
I need to convince myself that I shouldn't define my self-worth by having a job and the quality of that job.I am completely failing to convince myself of that and I just spent all night watching TV because going to bed is depressing and once I do go to bed I'll spend all day in it and hoo boy I am depressed. Welp. Time to sleep and set an alarm and probably disregard it anyway.
If it helps you, remind yourself that our corporate overlords are extremely pleased when we are tricked into thinking our value as people is dependent on our economic output, the full value of which they are stealing from us anyway.
@Macha said in Depression Meals:
I got two cans of spaghetti-os with meatballs at the store - So I'm ready if I have a super low/super painful day. Dump in bowl - add garlic power and onion powder. Stir. Nuke til hot.
I remember liking Chef Boyardee canned spaghetti, aside from the weirdly bitter, gelatin-textured meatballs.
@surreality said in Depression Meals:
Soup. Pudding. Jello. These are the next two weeks, depression or otherwise.
Oral surgery?
@ZombieGenesis said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
All they do is parrot garbage they read off of forums and act like this makes them experts.
Look, if I think something, then it must be correct, because I am too special to be wrong or to need to do research before being right.
Couldn't get into Arrow, though, it seemed like it was trying to be gritty or something and it was kind of boring to me.
I gave it three episodes, and yeah, it felt like it was doing everything it could to be Batman Begins.
@Kestrel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Back to RL peeves, disgruntlements and irks.
I just saw a fashion advert on Facebook for stylish anti-pollution air masks.
If that's not peak capitalism I don't know what is.
Health insurance is worse, but this is damn close.
@Pandora said in Tyche Banned:
@Pandora said in Tyche Banned:
Racial slurs, threats of violence, malicious intent to make people feel unsafe or unwelcome - all of these are against the rules & I personally don't understand why @Tyche wasn't banned ages ago, as much as we've discussed spirit vs. letter of the law here.
Don't act like I didn't cover that sort of situation in my post, it's disingenuous & that's only if I'm being generous about your intentions.
Do you think I was arguing with you?
EDIT: This is a serious question. I do not understand your hostility when I think my post mostly agrees with yours by providing an interpretation of Kestrel's words that I thought would be clarifying; yet you act as if I was disagreeing with you. Is that what's going on here?
@Pandora said in Tyche Banned:
@Kestrel said in Tyche Banned:
Some topics don't deserve civil discourse.
I disagree with this sentiment.
I wonder if Kestrel is using "civil discourse" the way Neo-Nazis use it, to describe conversation that is required to validate attacks on marginalized people as being 'just words' that you must rebut their right to make. You know, like,
SHITBAG: All Jews should die in ovens.
DECENT HUMAN BEING: Fuck you endlessly. That's repugnant and calling you a garbage person is an insult to trash.
SHITBAG: Wow, so much for civil discourse! You can't even debate my ideas without descending into personal attacks!
DEPRESSING NUMBER OF PEOPLE: Wow, Shitbag is right, I can't believe how uncivil Decent Human Being was!
(thank you for reading my one-act play)
@Pandora said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
My favorite new author is a struggling young artist & I started supporting him on Patreon last year, in October. The tier I subbed at gets you a handwritten thank you card, a bookmark, stickers, and the best part - a collectible fridge magnet in the shape of one of the cans of the canned human meat they eat in the cannibalistic post-apocalyptic setting of the novels: "Good Boy" made of healthy young people, "Foi Ras" made from the liver of people that were force-fed corn, etc. It's grim, I love it.
Anyway! I subbed in October. So that's October, November, December, and now the end of January. I didn't get any of the things in the mail! I was so miffed, and since I finished reading all the books to-date anyway, I cancelled the sub and added the reason was not getting the tier stuff. This was like 2 days ago. TODAY, I get a package in the mail from him with all the stuff and a personalized note apologizing that it took so long and including some extra freebies - including the full set of the magnets!
I feel terrible for being an impatient asshole, but I'm too fucking embarrassed to re-sub. What do I do? So annoying!
You are the wronged party. Your re-sub is forgiveness, not an admission of guilt.
@Kestrel said in Tyche Banned:
I'll be honest. I don't care about the rules. I care about the very first sentence in this paragraph. Rules should neither entitle nor excuse anyone behaving a certain way.
I understand very well the need for those in power to have rules that justify their actions to those of us without power, but I agree here nevertheless. Allowing someone to game the rules to break their spirit is not a success of the system, it's a perversion.
I sometimes think about how shameful it is that the artificial society we've constructed is so torturous for humans to exist in but can be handled with such good grace by dogs. "Warm house, no wind, lots of food, soft places to lie down on, people to love? This is paradise!"