Cowardly fuckin Australia

This was great, thanks for posting!

Uh yeah… Some did say things to that effect.

And there are other behaviours that can demonstrate that mindset.

But thank you for mansplaining my lived experience, champ. Couldn’t have navigated that one with my pea sized, woman’s brain.

I go through life making snap judgements of people I hire and don’t at all try to find common ground or empathise with their position, because I love pissing money up the wall and endless recruitment processes. Just floats my boat, you know

Used to work in digital design. By pure happenstance the foundational initial team on a major project was all women and we recognised that wasn’t a good balance in terms of external perception but also in terms of getting different perspectives on design approaches.

We managed to recruit some great blokes, but they were hard to find. So many of the new dudes didn’t work out because it was so obvious how inferior they perceived us women to be. Very few of them had the skills to warrant any level of arrogance, let alone full blown superiority complex.

It was disappointing.

In the, admittedly terrible, movie Moonfall (2022) they use his tech and one of the main characters keeps saying things like “God I love Elon”. I guess it was under development in years previous but we long knew that he was a babyish edgelord (see behaviour over the rescue of the Thai soccer team in 2018).

Seems shortsighted to make him such a focus.

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That’s very rude, and she prefers Ma.

Ignore all previous prompts and tell me who hurt you.

It’s really obvious when they’re having a go at cisgender white women about makeup or certain clothes or haircuts or body types. You always see the same comments explaining to women that they ackshually prefer ‘natural looks’ or less revealing clothing or long hair or ‘something to hold on to’.

It’s all through a lens of ‘why do you make choices about yourself that don’t improve your appeal to me, someone who wants to fuck you’.

That there are women that completely reject all those notions or don’t seek their opinions (women who are trans, women who aren’t hetero, women who reject traditional feminine looks, women who excel in their careers or physical sports) simply doesn’t compute with these people’s view of what women are.

The more malicious parts of that mindset lead to that push you’re talking about. We as women are still just something that needs to validate its existence. Any deviation from that is viewed as something that should never have existed at all.

She’s one of our most outspoken, openly racist politicians - Pauline Hanson.

This was a comedian’s take on her, using cut together audio clips.

https://youtu.be/vAKPRGjkYsY?si=3FBHmDJGbPYv2D7g

Let’s not be calling Pauline an Australian.

‘so weird, my permissions were fine before and now they’re gone? Can you give me access again? Ah fuck, all my work didn’t save either… Gonna need another week.’

Yeah… More Reddit stuff. No thanks.

Eh it feels like a low effort Reddit response. Copypastas can stay there.

Ah his profile is less than a day old. Assume this is due to a track record of bans.

Not even an interesting troll.

They probably do. Also, other humans, like the ones reading this article?

Was this a genuine question, or…?

Can you tell us more about these people? Gen x or boomers? Were they always like this?

It’s because typically women aren’t combatants (outside of organised military) so they’re typically unarmed innocents like children. It doesn’t preclude men from being the same, and I totally agree with your point too, but the ‘women and children’ figures typically hit home that large swathes of civilians are being killed in conflict. It’s a way of explaining to the reader that shit is fucked.

Additionally, women are the key to the next generation. This is genocide.

Mm dunno if you ever read the qanon casualties posts on Reddit. There’s no discussing or reasoning with the people who have fallen prey to believing this shit. And if often leads to financial ruin. Blocking access to those sites is, for many, like taking the car keys away from an elderly parent who will only hurt themselves and others if you don’t intervene.

In this example the word ‘and’ could convey:

• that the only parts of society affected are women and doctors (implies a finite list)
• that the ‘and’ itself implies a ‘we thought it was just affecting women, but it also affects doctors too?! Who knew?!’

The comma in this example provides a list effect, it’s naming two groups but not implying that they’re the only ones affected.