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How The Face Changes With Shifting A Light Source
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A List of “Men’s Rights” Issues That Feminism Is Already Working On
Feminists do not want you to lose custody of your children. The assumption that women are naturally better caregivers is part of patriarchy.
Feminists do not like commercials in which bumbling dads mess up the laundry and competent wives have to bustle in and fix it. The assumption that women are naturally better housekeepers is part of patriarchy.
Feminists do not want you to have to make alimony payments. Alimony is set up to combat the fact that women have been historically expected to prioritize domestic duties over professional goals, thus minimizing their earning potential if their “traditional” marriages end. The assumption that wives should make babies instead of money is part of patriarchy.
Feminists do not want anyone to get raped in prison. Permissiveness and jokes about prison rape are part of rape culture, which is part of patriarchy.
Feminists do not want anyone to be falsely accused of rape. False rape accusations discredit rape victims, which reinforces rape culture, which is part of patriarchy.
Feminists do not want you to be lonely and we do not hate “nice guys.” The idea that certain people are inherently more valuable than other people because of superficial physical attributes is part of patriarchy.
Feminists do not want you to have to pay for dinner. We want the opportunity to achieve financial success on par with men in any field we choose (and are qualified for), and the fact that we currently don’t is part of patriarchy. The idea that men should coddle and provide for women, and/or purchase their affections in romantic contexts, is condescending and damaging and part of patriarchy.
Feminists do not want you to be maimed or killed in industrial accidents, or toil in coal mines while we do cushy secretarial work and various yarn-themed activities. The fact that women have long been shut out of dangerous industrial jobs (by men, by the way) is part of patriarchy.
Feminists do not want you to commit suicide. Any pressures and expectations that lower the quality of life of either gender are part of patriarchy. The fact that depression is characterized as an effeminate weakness, making men less likely to seek treatment, is part of patriarchy.
Feminists do not want you to be viewed with suspicion when you take your child to the park (men frequently insist that this is a serious issue, so I will take them at their word). The assumption that men are insatiable sexual animals, combined with the idea that it’s unnatural for men to care for children, is part of patriarchy.
Feminists do not want you to be drafted and then die in a war while we stay home and iron stuff. The idea that women are too weak to fight or too delicate to function in a military setting is part of patriarchy.
Feminists do not want women to escape prosecution on legitimate domestic violence charges, nor do we want men to be ridiculed for being raped or abused. The idea that women are naturally gentle and compliant and that victimhood is inherently feminine is part of patriarchy.
Feminists hate patriarchy. We do not hate you.
If you really care about those issues as passionately as you say you do, you should be thanking feminists, because feminism is a social movement actively dedicated to dismantling every single one of them. The fact that you blame feminists—your allies—for problems against which they have been struggling for decades suggests that supporting men isn’t nearly as important to you as resenting women. We care about your problems a lot. Could you try caring about ours?
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Every time some dumb fuck says something about bombing North Korea off the map I want to scream. Those babies faces, that could be my baby. I see my own daughter in all of their innocent faces. That is the same blood in her veins.
North Korean people are victims of the Kim family’s regime. They are NOT the problem in this international clusterfuck.
I wholeheartedly embrace this. The Kim dynasty has destroyed the country and done its best to destroy its people I have too many pages of statistics from my thesis regarding prison camps, slave labor, political executions staged as entertainment, and people being forced to become full-time informers on their friends and neighbors or risk their own family’s lives. Not to mention the famine that continues to ravage the country - when people are starving they do not simply wither away… they tend to try and consume non-food items in desperation as they suffer. In North Korea, this usually consists of trying to boil soup out of inedible plants, including tree bark. Since trees die if the bark is pulled off all the way along the trunk, you can actually trace patterns of starvation in North Korea based on satellite images showing the speed with which the forests are dying. These people are not to blame. They have been put through every kind of political hell imaginable, and have survived.
(I do want to specify that the images showing large apartment blocks and streetcars are likely to be from Pyongyang, which is the de facto seat of wealth in the entire country. They do not depict the quality of life or the amenities available to North Koreans elsewhere in the country.)
Do people really assume all of NK is just militant adult Koreans?
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Man I’m horrible at keeping up with writing on here. Alright! Time to make another half hearted effort!.
I feel like this might be accurate to my needs after work today. Blech.
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