FanonFan

Haven't played the first world but the second one is like factorio x command & conquer.

CW SA

This reply isn't directed at you specifically fwiw, more the general topic

Understandable for sure. Especially for masc people who themselves have been victimized. It's a harsh realization, a hard pill to swallow.

But realizing, acknowledging, and fully understanding this reality is essential for deconstructing internalized patriarchy and toxic masculinity, for developing emotional maturity, for interacting empathetically with comrades. Essential to try and be part of a solution rather than part of the problem.

It's very difficult for a lot of men to truly understand and internalize the experience of being femme in a patriarchal society, especially wrt constant underlying threat of SA or pest behavior. Like every interaction with a man is filtered, consciously or subconsciously, by the fact that he has been conditioned by a society that accepts this shit as normal, that no matter how nice or cool he is you don't truly know what's going on inside his head, and he could be the next one to victimize you.

There's no signifier that truly represents safety. Political opinion, physical presentation, niceness, none of these preclude the possibility of future abuse. A lot of us have been victimized by people we thought we could trust.

So like, it all fucking sucks. It sucks for people who feel ostracized because of something outside of their control, it sucks for people who have to live with this constant stressor and tension on every potential interaction with a masc person, it sucks that there's yet another divisive intersection undermining potential solidarity. But we do still form connections. Solidarity is the only path forward, and we can achieve it despite these inhibitory factors with better understanding of everyone's experiences, with active self-crit.

But the onus is on men to acknowledge this reality and deconstruct the insecurity they feel at being perceived this way. Their comfort can't be maintained at the cost of denying or minimizing the lived experiences of femme people.

Synthesis: Yous'll

There's occasionally a tinge of white liberal urban superiority complex when people from the coasts use it, for sure.

A pet is a great way to bridge the "so desperately lonely that I scare people off" gap.

After seeing the expert geogeussers pinpoint locations from the minutest details, extrapolating that out to the resources of a federal agency, I've realized that any picture where location is privileged needs to have basically everything blurred out lmao

isn't this the guy who tried to claim the "liberal/conservative" divide was genetic?

Labor power at the McDonald's I've seen the numbers for (probably much less profitable than California) is worth about $40-50 per work hour. Using these numbers, the workers are essentially gifting this owner 70% of their surplus at $15/hour versus 60% at $20/hour. Whiny baby.

Unrelated to your education (and assuming US, sorry) there's a ton of seasonal jobs, some of which provide room and board. They range from hospitality to nature management to agriculture.

Finkelstein transcended this pyramid when facing Mr Boticelli

I've seen people mention Chicago, Milwaukee, Philly in previous posts. Never been myself so my comment isn't super helpful lol

But I'm also interested so bumping

This is pretty much where I'm at personally, and you worded the ideas very well.