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as a teen, i was constantly harassed by adults enforcing ''dress codes'' on me. I very much experienced this as sexual harassment. I think this is one of many cases where people would more easily understand this as sexual harassment if I described it as if it happened to an adult.

imagine being on your lunch break, and your supervisor comes over to your table, tells you to stand up in front of everyone. they draw everyone's attention to your thighs. they tell you that you have broken the dress code because of the length of your shorts. they tell you to go change (so you do not get the rest of your lunch break). they do this every single day at lunch. every day. so you read the whole dress code front and back, and you choose your clothing carefully to not break it. you bring a cloth tape measure with you to work because they will not believe you. this time when your supervisor tells you that you're breaking dress code, you pull out your tape measure and show that you are within the limit. your supervisor says "I bet you wouldn't want me to bring you to the boss and let him measure it, would you?" it's clearly a threat: if you don't obey then you will be put alone in a room with your boss and he will touch your thighs. you don't know how to respond. you're taken out of lunch again.

this was my experience at school. replace supervisor with "teacher" and boss with "principal." this was sexual harassment. fuck dress codes.

qcharlie

i wish we were able to talk about women's rights without someone mentioning how much they do or don't want to have sex with them. i don't care if you're a lesbian Stop finding worth in women purely from their perceived attractiveness

qcharlie

"I think women should not be expected to shave for societal respect / to avoid discrimination" "yeah🤤 i love bush" ok well that's not what we're talking about is it.

qcharlie

i hate how many posts about trans women deserving respect always devolve into "I love girldick" or "trans rights but I don't want to date a trans person" because that's entirely unrelated to the topic at hand. you should not respond to feminism with "YESSS I loveeee you because I see you as nothing but a sex object" you people sound like other men I get stuck talking with that end up saying "free the nipple so I can see boobies in public" and thinking they're feminists. why can't we just respect women regardless of your attraction to them or not. why does it need to be brought up in every conversation regarding their rights

harpkingslay

À un moment il faudra que les médias réalisent que les gens qui ont été évacués à cause des incendies sont des réfugiés climatiques, par ce que des incendies de cette envergure n'existeraient pas sans le dérèglement climatique.

Et j'espère que les citoyens qui votent pour les fachos climato-négationistes se rendront compte que le FN ne ferra absolument rien pour les protéger des crises environnementales et catastrophes naturelles. Si ces bâtards préfèrent rétablir l'utilisation de pesticides cancérigènes plutôt que financer une agriculture biologique saine, c'est justement par ce qu'ils préfèrent se remplir les poches que d'aider la population. Mais bon je suis peut-être trop naïf d'espérer que le raisonnement de ces gens s'éclaircisse ; d'après eux voler 4.3 millions d'euros au parlement européen c'est pas grave.

nanalineni

Les écrins.... Le cap ferret.......

nanalineni

On nous parle de protection du patrimoine pour faire mourir les gens sous des toits zingués sans volets mais quand il s'agissait de faire quoi que ce soit au cours des vingt dernières années pour protéger le patrimoine naturel et les plus beaux paysages du pays c'était rien à foutre

nanalineni

160000 réfugiés et la métropole de Bordeaux menacée mais tkt la dette

local-demon-in-your-area

We can never repeat this enough, but the fires in France right now were always preventable.

Every step of the way, from fighting against global warming to buying more canadairs to raising more funds and awareness amongst the population as to what might start a fire : it was all completely preventable.

At every single fucking check the government failed to put the most basic protections into place so that it wouldn't happen, and now that it's happening they still fail to fight against it.

This is the real "insecurity", the knowledge that the people in power would rather send the cops after the firefighters who dared to ask for the means to do their job instead of taking any of our concerns seriously and actually protecting us as is their duty.

There is no democracy if its people are burning.

We're not angry enough.

French translation / Traduction en français :

stormloup

FR:

La police française fait très bien son travail. Son devoir n’a jamais été de protéger la population, elle a été créée spécifiquement pour maintenir l’ordre entre les classes sociales. Elle n’a toujours été rien d’autre que la milice personnelle des riches et des bourgeois. Quand la police tire avec allégresse sur des manifestants, quand elle empêche des secouristes de venir en aide aux manifestants blessés, quand elle tue des personnes racisées dans les quartiers et les banlieues, elle ne fait qu’accomplir la mission qui lui a été confiée par les élites.

Il n’y a pas de démocratie dans une pays gouverné par la terreur et la surveillance de masse. Il n’y a pas de démocratie dans un pays qui refuse de mettre les moyens nécessaires pour protéger sa population de la précarité et de la rue, des violences systémiques, de la désertion médicale, de la dégradation du système éducatif, du dérèglement climatique et de toutes les catastrophes naturelles qu’il engendre.

Il n’y a pas de démocratie dans un pays dont le gouvernement a constamment recours aux manœuvres les plus antidémocratiques qui soient pour faire passer ses lois abjectes, dangereuses et étroitement liées avec les idéologies d’extrême-droite.

Cet été, le gouvernement a fait passer des lois pour restreindre la liberté d’expression sur Internet, pour permettre à la police de tuer encore plus légalement qu’avant, pour tuer les malades et les handicapés après les avoir complètement vidé du moindre sou qu’il pouvait leur rester. Et pendant ce temps-là, on se retrouve contraint de devoir regarder notre pays partir littéralement en fumée.

EN:

The French police do their job very well. Their duty was never to protect the population, they were specifically created to maintain the social order. It’s never been anything more than the upper classes and rich people’s personal militia. When the police shoot enthusiastically at protesters, when they stop first aiders from rescuing wounded protesters, when they kill people of color in the suburbs, all they’re doing is fulfilling the mission which was given to them by the elite.

There is no democracy in a country governed by terror and mass surveillance. There is no democracy in a country which refuses to put in the necessary means to protect its people from precariousness and homelessness, systemic violence, medical deserts, the degradation of schools, as well as climate change and all the natural disasters it causes.

There is no democracy in a country whose government constantly resorts to the most antidemocratic maneuvers in order to pass bills that are in their very nature despicable, dangerous and directly tied to far-right ideologies.

This summer, the government passed bills to restrict free speech online, make it even more legal for cops to kill people, and euthanize sick and disabled people after squeezing every last penny out of them. And in the meanwhile, we’re being forced to watch as our country is literally being burned to a crisp.

local-demon-in-your-area

Absolument, je me suis concentrée sur les feux et le rôle du gouvernement qui est supposé être de nous protéger (chose qu'il ne fait pas ou alors prétend faire avec une police de plus en plus violente) mais le fait est que les feux actuels sont juste la pointe visible de l'iceberg de merde de tout ce qui se passe en France actuellement malheureusement

Eng :

Absolutely, I focused on the fires happening currently and the fact the government's role is supposed to be to protect us (which it doesn't do at all or pretends to do with a police that is becoming increasingly more violent) but the fact is that the fires are just the tip of the shitty iceberg of things that are unfortunately happening in France right now

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

was thinking about how the concept of god is usually characterized as male (thanks patriarchy) and i came up with a question: in christian theology,

does "God" have a penis?

surely the catholic church made some sort of ruling on this

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

stop derailing with Jesus's foreskin, this post is about God's genitals ONLY

myfairkatiecat

Hi, Catholic here—the only part of the holy trinity with a human body is the Son (Jesus) so yes, but also God the Father doesn’t have a human body so no, but the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are all the same being as well so yes, but all humans including women are created in the image of God so hypothetically He has everything else too. Hope this helps.

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

thank you it did not!

rtm-drlng

Using he him pronouns doesn't necessarily indicate having a penis does it gaudy

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

see that's gender studies 101 but i wanna force the catholic church to ADMIT it

doctoraxiom

Also for what it's worth Catholic God doesn't use he/him. He uses He/Him which theologians insist is distinct from human pronouns.

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

so the catholic church wants you to respect their god's neopronouns

south-africa-official

i never really got it when people made posts about light pollution and seeing all the stars for the first time and crying. i always assumed that everyone has gone on a road trip to a bortle 1.0 place and seen stars like that, and it's fantastic, but not like life changing. and then i went to europe last month and was in a mountaintop village of like 300 people and could see about 5 stars in the sky. like fewer than i can see from my home in a big metropolitan city.

my apologies to the non-africans, i did not realise how fucked your sky is

pansytheleia

please vote for new European bank notes

if there is two things you should remember me by it's both loving birds and being very pro Europe.

Anyway we'll apparently get new bank notes with either historic figures or nature and I'm not telling you to vote for birds buuuuuuut -

pansytheleia

https://surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/banknotes/share/

official-kultur

https://surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/banknotes/share

kendrixtermina

I hope it's going to be either birds or the art deco celebrities

EDIT: You can look at the designs here:

Die Europäische Zentralbank (EZB) ist die Zentralbank der Mitgliedstaaten der Europäischen Union, die den Euro eingeführt haben. Unsere vorr

Before voting.

#oh so that's what the survey I haven't opened in my teams notifications is about is it ?

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

in hindsight, growing up as an aromantic person who didn't know aromanticism was a thing...it woulda been really easy for me to assume that something was wrong with me, that I was "broken" or "missing" some piece of humanity.

luckily I was autistic, oblivious, and had a huge ego. it literally never occurred to me to frame it as a "me" problem. i just thought every single person i knew was a dumbass

panic-at-the-aromantic

redstonedust AND biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist are aromantic??? are all the famous tumblrinas aromantic??

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

OKAY LISTEN

schakira

hey not to advertise these twats (so don't look them up) but some absolute fucks in paris allegedly created a service where you can "rent air conditioning" (taking advantage of a climate apocalypse) and they make you pay 700€ a month for AC that costs 200€ for life.

schakira

image descriptions and translations:

[social media screenshot from Le Parisien, a french journal "renting instead of buying AC, the good deal proposed by [Don't-Look-Them-Up] mid-heatwave."]

[journal article from Le Parisien that reads: "renting instead of buying AC, the good deal proposed by [Don't-Look-Them-Up] mid-heatwave.

Since the start of the summer, acquiring an AC has been challenging. To answer to buyers who are faced with empty storefronts, [Don't-Look-Them-Up] has found a trick: the punctual rental of cooling units."]

ahem. and the review

[One-Star Review: Crooks that profit off of people's distress. He made me an offer for a 9000 BTu AC unit (valued at 280€) for 750€ per month. To avoid.]

schakira

they admitted in a video that they bought all the AC units DURING A BIG HEATWAVE all over Paris to empty all stocks, so that people would rely on them to get AC.

there were 3000 deaths due to the heatwave.

strawbebbynya

all yall make jokes about couples and their nonromantic third wheel having fun together, but im the one getting treated to food tonight by the couple im nonromantically third wheeling. you wish you were me

whitachi

I'm sorry I read this as "necromantic third wheel" and went on a very rapid powerful imagination adventure. hello lovebirds I'm the skeleton here for breadsticks

faiasakura

you, your boyfriend, and the guy your boyfriend brought back from the dead

filmnoirsbian

There's a labyrinth. In the middle of it, a minotaur is making waffles.

butchniqabi

Minotaur in his kitchen

filmnoirsbian

kumkaniudaku

And then you can’t even say shit about bc people start trying to put you in a jacket and shit. Like omg it’s so strict???

autie-j

Remember when Xbox was going to basically ban used games for the xbox one, and Playstation made fun of them with that video titled "how to share games on Playstation" and it was just one guy handing another a game disk? And now Playstation is getting rid of physical disks entirely

larken-the-skies

It’s like they expect us to just forget their original marketing schemes in favor of more and more money grabs.

i-suggest-piracy

i have a suggestion

jewish-joy

Last year, I befriended a Catholic seminarian. We've gotten to be pretty decent friends. Seeing as he was staying in town for the summer and I wasn't, I entrusted him with caring for my plant.

He did a wonderful job, but as he was returning my plant to my custody, he explained "I watered her every other day, I gave her new dirt, moved her into the sunshine, prayed the rosary-"

"What?"

He looked at me, confused. "Isn't she a plant you pray with?"

"No," I said slowly. "She's a prayer plant. That's the... colloquial name of the plant."

Upon seeing his stricken face, I realized something went wrong. Turns out, this entire time, he's been including my plant in on his prayers and leaving her near icons.

Listen, totally cool. My plant becoming Catholic is a great deal for her not dying over the summer. But now I must navigate this interfaith household. Keep me in your thoughts.

allthingswhumpyandangsty

Do you think authors need more than just the dead dove tag to properly warn people of what's to come? For example, should I label my works "dddne because of *this* triggering topic" or is the dead dove tag simply enough?

dead dove tag alone doesn’t tell anyone anything. like. at all. dead dove means “you have been warned”, but if you don’t tell your readers what you’re warning them about, they’re not gonna know what the content of the fic you’re warning them about is. is it non-con? is it violence? is it gore? they’re not going to be able to know it. dead dove tag is supposed to be used to emphasize the actual warning tag(s). it’s not supposed to be used as a standalone tag.

that said, most writers don’t use “dead dove: do not eat because of xyz”. how it’s commonly used is “dead dove: do not eat” as one tag, and then different tags that tell the audience about the actual warnings.

for instance, “dead dove: do not eat”, “blood and gore”, “rape/non-con”, etc

bpd-dylan-hall-deactivated20190

“our teeth and ambitions are bared” is a zeugma

and it’s a zeugma where one of the words is literal and one is metaphorical which is the BEST KIND

tuesdayisfordancing

I didn’t know about zeugmas until just now! That is so awesome, everybody:

zeug·ma ˈzo͞oɡmə/

noun

a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (e.g.,John and his license expired last week ) or to two others of which it semantically suits only one (e.g., with weeping eyes and hearts ).

ISN’T THAT AWESOME??

professorsparklepants

#in english class in high school my teacher had us write our own zeugmas in class#and one guy came up with ‘he fell from her favor… and the window’#i am forever looking for opportunities to use that one