YES. Also, women are deprived of the ability to express just as many emotions as men because of the patriarchy. While men may not be rewarded for expressing sadness or other “feminine” emotions, women are punished for expressing anger and other “masculine” ones. It’s just that we tend not to code the emotions men are…

Actually, she’s engaging in a mutual act with people she’s attracted to. Which is, you know, how it works, if your worldview is that women are people who sometimes like other people, and often like other people whose values match their own (and don’t actively undermine them).

Ugh, I get that this is a really popular joke, but it’s also part of why we never get to the productive part of the discussion about the majority of social problems in this country.

I think probably the only way to make it better for everyone in the longterm in a sustainable fashion is a commitment to a living wage as a society. Gentrification is primarily a consequence of income disparity and the fact that wages stagnating has not also slowed the rise in rents/property costs in most places in…

That’s kind of what women have been asking for this whole time (read: all of human history), and exactly why women are fearful in the first place. Because, in the ways that matter on a societal level, we don’t get seen as or treated like we’re actually equal humans to men. It’s nice if you treat women differently on…

Pardon someone for not realizing that you weren’t talking about yourself when you “I” “my” “me,” “also when I do it I tip well”-ed all over this thread.

So, you honestly think that if the weather is so bad you’re *aware* that any decent person should/would close their restaurant, the only people who have any obligation to say/do anything about that are the ones who are dependent on the terrible owner for income and employment?

I can’t believe people don’t get (or don’t want to get) this. Some people don’t have the option to choose not to go to work without serious consequences. Sure, said person could probably sue if they got fired for being asked to do something that’s too dangerous, but people who no longer have a job usually don’t have…

If by “kind of beside the point” you mean “entirely unrelated to what happened,” then sure—people should spend less money on belts.