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Here's a cool blog post about this.

Bye bye, em dash (—) 👋

Always has been.

Who the fuck even wants this? Apart from them, I mean.

The fingering will continue until morale improves. :3

Damn it! I was debating with my partner on the title post, she suggested the current one and I suggested this! I should've trusted my shutposting guts :3

So you made up your own fanfiction about this comment and decided to get mad at it. You're blaming the wrong writer here.

Personally, I use it. In my corner of Fedi, people do use it. At the end of the day, language is shaped by the people who use it. So yeah, let's keep using it. :)

Just what the internet needed, even more lies and fascists propagandists. yay....

We share the same instance and I'm noticing that I'm not getting that much update from the feeds I'm following. I had to check out the lemmy version of some of the communities to notice that they indeed have received new posts.

It might be an issue with our instance at the moment.

Rule 1. Women only… trans women are women, and transphobic or gender critical talk isn’t allowed. Anyone under the trans umbrella (e.g. non-binary, bigender, agender) is free to decide whether a women's community is a good fit for them.

This is in the interest of avoiding something that happens all the time with women only spaces on the internet and that is being overtaken by men.

This is especially a problem when we discuss our feelings towards men, especially if they are negative, because the discussion will inevitably and very quickly derail to men in the comments being offended and women having to temper their emotions, instead of actually talking about their own feelings on the matter.

It is sadly necessary as this problem is something that has basically killed most women spaces on the Threadiverse.

Which is in the end, following the Transphobe playbook. Because that's what he is too. Fucking hell, I hate everything.

I guess in the end the big difference is that misogyny is systemic. It happens all the time, constantly. It's deeply rooted into society, while misandry is more of like a personal opinion thing. One is the roots of the tree, the other is a leaf on a branch. One is systemic, the other is individualistic.

But to me, even simpler than that, this systemic misogyny is the reason why misandry exists. The other way around is simply not true.

That being said, misandry is something that I'm actively fighting against in my own head. I have plenty of reason to develop these feelings that are completely justified, but I don't want to. Because I don't want to start hating 50% of the population.

I grew up surrounded by men, and I want to love them. Because they are people and I know that this deeply rooted misogyny hurts them deeply as well, and that we would just simply all benefit from getting rid of it, including them. They are trapped in the masculinity that is forced upon them. Systemic misogyny is misandrist. It hates men and actively seeks to keep them miserable.

I would also like to give a specific mention of transmisandry, which is a real thing, and is kind of a problem in some circle. Especially with TERFs that like to go and harass transmasculine people online. Like, almost deeming them as gender traitor or whatever. The whole thing is, of course, deeply rooted in transphobia, but it's still important to notice and to mention that the way we go against transfeminine people and the way we go against transmasculine people are very different, while both being rooted in misogyny.

Transphobia and homophobia are just a specific branch of misogyny. It's also why you'll see transphobes systematically trying to emasculate transfeminine people. Anyway, I could go on and on, and I kind of am so I'm gonna stop here.