colforge

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[–] colforge@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No one claims that being harassed for being falsely accused of transphobia comes anywhere close to what someone else may or may not have to go through. These two things do not have to be equal for them both to be bad, and acknowledging that the former has a negative impact on the movement for trans acceptance does not in any way take away from that movement.

[–] colforge@lemm.ee 8 points 9 months ago

I certainly don’t mean to shame you for what seems to be a desire to play the game without being propositioned for sex at all. That seems to me to be a completely different thing than wanting to remove a particular sexuality from the game but leaving others intact.

[–] colforge@lemm.ee 17 points 9 months ago (5 children)

It’s funny how much this comment mirrors the experience of LGBT people left and right. Do you think it’s not awkward for a lesbian to “have to straight up reject” their male “friends” who come on to them? Or gay men and their female “friends”, or asexuals and literally anyone.

[–] colforge@lemm.ee 34 points 10 months ago

If I’m not paid for ALL the time I am required to be on-site and available to my employer (including for security purposes), I’m finding another job asap. Don’t give your time away without being compensated for it.

[–] colforge@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah here in the good ol (hahahaha) USA most establishments have a separate “restroom” for men and women which consist of a row of sinks for washing up and a number of stalls for toilets (and urinals in men’s rooms of course).

Sometimes the urinals are just in a row on the wall with no dividers between. But there’s usually one or two disabled stalls as well, although they’re not locked in any way.

[–] colforge@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Most of the disabled stalls I’ve encountered (at least in the US) are within the gendered bathrooms. So even if the stall is nominally gender neutral one first has to enter the men’s room or women’s room.

[–] colforge@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Which is why I also advocate for laws keeping corporations/business out of residential property ownership altogether.

[–] colforge@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Companies would also then be incentivized to invest in and lobby for better affordable housing in the communities their offices are located in/around so that employees at all pay scales have affordable options within a few miles of the office.

[–] colforge@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] colforge@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

I don’t deny that. But I posit that it matters not whether it’s a religion or a legislating body, telling women what they can or cannot wear is wrong and it is oppressive. If one must resort to the same tactics as the oppressors, what makes them any better?

[–] colforge@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Removing the freedom of choice is textbook oppression but ok.

[–] colforge@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

My point was more that more oppression is not the answer to oppression.

 

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