and I don't mean any accusation or insult... just have you ever seen anyone question 'the movement' in any form?

but heres the big question... would you feel SAFE questioning it yourself? in public forum? if you brought up any sort of doubt or criticism would you feel safe saying it?

not someone that identifies as a feminist

when speaking to other feminists

internal debate is discouraged and ostrasized in my experience

that is a signifigant impact

I thought I recall seeing a story that their quarterly sales report shows a decline as well?

I don't really ever go to r/feminisn, because there is absolutely nothing of value there for me, so scanning through its topic right now I'm genuinely shocked how toxic and hateful it is

I mean I shouldn't be... this shouldn't shock me at all

yet it does

the majority of these topics/highly upvoted comments are just shamelessly hateful and derogatory

I guess I just expected more subtlety

I found a highly upvoted comment that was 'if you know someone accused of rape, then they are a rapist and you are in denial about it, stop defending rape'

and I just couldn't continue

@Men Are Human https://np.reddit.com/r/Feminism/comments/amfzqa/not_all_men_lol/eflzyi6/

the second half is about men being afraid to associate with women in the workplace for fear of false rape accusations

the post is meant to insinuate that any man afraid of a false accusation is a rapist or future rapist

I can't wait for the Ghostbusters Remake Remake to come out and be super successful, because it'll be the first solid evidence that marketing to the Social Justice Movement is huge money sink

yeah seriously women need to stop killing kids

hmm?

are you challenging us to do better?

State of the Union Address

I didn't see it but I read a manuscript

its a State of the Union address... its about a lot of things

its basically a summary of the last year's worth of political changes/goals

according to him he is doing an amazing job, everything is better (mostly because of him), and the US is more powerful now than it has ever been at any point in history

other countries suck and are liars... and he is going to build a wall no matter what because walls are awesome and solve all our problems

umemployment is no longer a 'good' indicator for the health of the economy

as economists are coming to agreement on

consumer spending power is at depression era levels

whether or not you are employed no longer indicates if you are participating in a healthy economy

um... not quickly

I recall seeing an article today about 40% of americans being one paycheck away from homelessness

let me find that

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/40-of-americans-one-step-from-poverty-if-they-miss-a-paycheck/

the working class has no financial safety net

which means any sort of economic instability could be earth shattering

well wage stagnation is also a problem

actual spending power of the minimum wage hasn't increased since the 70s

its only adjusted for inflation, not cost of living

to the same amount of money for the same jobs does not go nearly as far

its why you hear about people 'putting themselves through college' in the 70s but nowadays you hear about people being in debt for their entire lives to student loans

I recall seeing an article that the average career to college degree ratio for payoff is 30 years

so you'll spend 30 years paying off the education you purchased to get into your career

but its been awhile since I looked at those stats

but yeah I've been seeing discussions amongst economists that we shouldn't even be using unemployment as a factor to judge the health of an economy, mostly because its so often used as the ONLY factor so its extremely misleading

the same has been said for the health of the stock market, which is an indicator for the health of corporations but not the health of the living economy

yeah I don't know what a solution is

I'll be interested in seeing ideas though

I know its super unpopular in some circles, but I think that the idea of Basic Income could be hugely beneficial

I forgot what its buzzword is right now...

Universal Basic Income

really? thats how I met my girlfriend

I walked up and asked her about the book she was reading

different strokes I guess

Cascadia

The Pacific Northwest

according to the Circumcision documentary it was doctors in the UK that began advocating circumcision as a means to prevent mastrubation in the 1900s

and it migrated to the US and has remained every since, over the yeras its slowly evolved from one proclaimed health benefit to another, without any actual studies being done

its all in that documentary on Netflix

yeah I was charged $80 for speaking with my lawyer's secretary for 30 seconds

fuck lawyers

preparing for a massive snowstorm going to hit my area over the weekend

yourself?

depending how it plays out, if the conditions are right it might not really affect much, but if the conditions roll out badly the roads could be entirely unusable

thats rough

I called the secretary about being confused because my paperwork kept referring to a document that I was supposed to have but didn't, however I realized during the conversation with her that the document didn't exist because of other reasons

apparently that was taken as an inquiry into the paperwork

even though she technically didn't help, but even speaking with her about the subject automatically billed me

and they only bill by the hour, so the second she picked up the phone I was charged for the full hour, no matter how long the conversation took

basically beauracracy

no its $80 an hour 😛 they just change for a full hour no matter how much of that hour you use

like if I use 10 minutes they charge 1 hour

its like phone minutes

if you use 10 seconds it counts as 1 minute

but yeah lawyering is a racket

I think it should be noted that any man stripping naked for a cause would be shunned and humiliated

because female nakedness is valued and male nakedness is shameful

technically to be legally allowed to charge people you need to go to lawschool

which is also a racket

we should start a male exclusive university though

been thinking about that awhile now actually... since boys are so left behind and persecuted in higher education right now

you mean like that app that removes make-up

its actually a super depressing story

the app became famous on the internet because it was a joke about 'revealing girls for how they really look'

it got super horrible feminist backlash

that called the app sexist

and the eventual negative publicity caused the company that created the app to go under

however, the application was actually designed to combat human sex trafficing

because applying heavy make-up is a way traffickers use to get underage girls past customs or law enforcement

and the app was designed to make facial recognition of kidnapped girls easier

it was the internet that found the much unused app (which was available for free) and then turned it into a meme

the company tried to defend themselves but the feminists were too enraged to listen and the company, and the app, were driven under

sounds like a bully had an awesome morning

sounds like the grounds for million dollar lawsuit

there ya hgo

spreading information is never for nothing, I had not heard most of that before

well reddit is selling to a Chinese corporation... anything could happen as far as changes go

fighting fire with fire just gets everyone burned

the toxicity and hatred of the feminist movement is exactly what is going to destroy it, it is what is fracturing and dividing it now