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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • Welcome to feminist media analysis. It’s an existing academic field and you can find books and YouTube videos on it (and it can go pretty deep into related topics).

    One of my favorite examples was when the creators of Avatar the Last Airbender were deciding to create their sequel about the next avatar they decided to make their protagonist a woman and executives at nickelodeon complained that boys wouldn’t be able to relate to a female protagonist.

    The explanation I’ve largely heard that makes sense to me is that women are taught women are generally expected to learn to empathathize with male protagonists whereas the inverse is much more optional. You have plenty of men who do get into wonder woman and she ra and korra, my childhood best friends are among them, but you also get a lot of men who don’t in a way where I can’t think of an inverse that I’ve seen


  • And part of the problem is that congress won’t govern. Everything has to be someone highly politics hot button issue with then and when it isn’t they’ll throw it in there anyways. And at this point when I hear bipartisan I ask myself who the democrats are letting get hurt in exchange for permission to operate the government.

    Like, can you imagine a constitutional amendment passing today? Or something less difficult like a budget passing without any spite. The infrastructure act shouldn’t have been controversial. Following through on the agreements we made in exchange for Ukraine denuclearizing shouldn’t have been controversial. So now because everything is controversial the executive has to either expand their powers or do nothing, and by doing nothing they don’t get reelected and they don’t get what they want.

    Ultimately this is a byproduct of decades of gerrymandering and obstructionism. But yeah it’s resulted in the most competitive position expanding its powers as well as the judiciary doing the same as they’ve realized they can say anything and do anything








  • Yeah but the enemy of my enemy may not be my friend but they can be useful to ally with against our shared enemy.

    Pence is awful. But I’ll admit, I read him wrong a decade ago. I thought he was a Christian dominionist first and likes American democracy and the constitution if he can have it as well. But when push came to shove he turned out to actually support American democracy more than Christian dominionism, a thing he definitely still believes in. He’s not a good person, but he seems to not be a fascist actually, so to him I apologize for assuming him to be one based on his prior words, actions, and general vibes.




  • I don’t believe that man can throw an orgy. I’m not even saying that like everyone who throws an orgy is cool, like I’ve done it before and I’m on fucking lemmy, some real losers can pull off an orgy. But Elon, not only does this go against his ex wife’s accounts of their college experiences, it’s also just like he’s too incel category loser. He thinks he’s suave, but not in a “has done things at band camp that the normies are way too awkward to even ask for” way, more of a weirdo asking everyone way


  • They also associate eco friendly consumer products with worse performance. And there’s an understandable reason here, low flow toilets are worse in many ways, and if you want to reduce the draw of a resistive heating appliance all you can do is wraken it’s effectiveness. Mind you ig hiu can better direct or preserve the heat you do beat the electrothermodynamic limit of 1 watt is 1 watt and all waste winds up as heat. But also heat pumps beat it too but they have limitations and inconveniences and while those are improving people rarely notice their electric bill went down nearly as strongly as they notice how long their clothes took to dry or how cold their home got



  • Ok, then to be very clear, yes it matters a lot. I’m a slut. I’ve had an amount of casual and easy sex that it feels cringe talking about on the internet. I’m also married. I always start with flirtation and if someone doesn’t flirt back I stop. Because the alternative is to keep hitting on someone who may be uninterested, which is what creeps do. Theres a range of time that it’s ok to flirt without flirting back, but yeah if you dont initiate and you don’t reciprocate only creeps will ask you out