unconsequential

Elon, that’s enough. Go home.

I would happily smash concrete blocks in the early am- don’t threaten me with a good time!

Greed hands down. Religious extremism is like psychosis or other mental illnesses. Greed is a much more dangerous beast and the absence of greed takes away a lot of religious extremism’s teeth. We also have more tools available to successfully combat religious extremism than greed. We’ve repeatedly seen collapses of religious extremists but rarely successful curbing of greed.

Modern and brutalist architecture can have that effect on people. Fuck concrete, and fuck neo-imperialist colonial architecture.

Concrete is horrible for the environment and its fucked up global emissions of buildings and architecture. (Cement production alone constitutes 8% of global emissions, not considering its inefficiency in thermal lifecycles of a building and ultimate un-renewable waste). It is in fact not the best fit for every circumstance.

One shoe fits all architecture trends have effectively killed vernacular wisdom and climate conscious local innovation. Favoring “cheap” garbage that jacks up costs in other sectors, damages climate and ignores localized need, requiring complex, often power-hungry, solutions like extensive BAS to try and counterbalance their piss poor application.

(For those unaware modern buildings when all is said and done account for over 40% of global emissions. And the heating/cooling systems far outpace keeping the lights on in terms of energy consumption (something like 2/3 of the total buildings demands over time). Tackling that behemoth number is going to take a multifaceted approach but the importance of materials and place-specific design cannot be understated.)

• sincerely, someone whose installed one too many motors for automated blinds and slapdash bandaid HVAC solutions.

If you don’t have a crawl space or attic with access, and aren’t somewhere they run conduit for resi, then most probably yes.

So what you’re saying is… he did think they were cops.

Well, click bait “influencers” trying to ramp up engagement on platforms meant to feed off of controversial content probably isn’t the best place to formulate a legitimate opinion on feminism. Pointing at a handful of bad actors or even just hyperbolic venting on systemic issues or women who feel frustrated, upset and on the defensive isn’t “feminism” as a whole.

I would suggest you engage with more legitimate sources and literature before drawing your conclusions on what feminism is.

Clickbait man hating is not feminism anymore than incel pandering is masculinity.

PS — I don’t like that either (the mindless man hating I mean, preying on disillusioned, upset and vulnerable women.)

Yeah, this sounds like a pretty common slander arguement, and certainly a use of hyperbole. You’ve seen some memes from some self proclaimed feminist accounts so all of the established feminist literature and established discourse means nothing.

And if you repeat it enough it magically becomes true. You don’t have to experience it first hand anymore because there’s a dozen accounts repeating it and they’ve all had the same exact first hand magical experience you did.

So, disregard women who are actually active in feminist circles and disregard academic critiques and established discourse. Your account and a dozen others repeating the same is clearly a better gauge. Not like bots and bad faith arguments aren’t running rampant.

I mean this comes off as why isn’t there a C for Cis or S for Straight in LGBTQ+? Shouldn’t they represent all genders/sexual expression? Isn’t it about equality and rights for all genders?! To be clear, I find that stance ridiculous.

Just because straight people are left out of the movement’s title doesn’t mean LGBTQ+ theory is advocating for superiority over straight/cis people, which is kind of your unspoken argument here for the “poor branding” of feminism.

And if you’re looking for the overarching term for all of this. It’s Gender Studies or Gender Equality. Always has been.

Feminism is a field of study not just a movement and it has vastly different interpretations. Liberal feminism and radical feminism are perhaps the most visible and mainstream but that doesn’t come close to all of feminism theory out there.

Feminism is very much meant to be, a criticism of, and in opposition to the patriarchy or male dominated social structures. Hence why “fem” is frontline and center. While cis-men are victims of the patriarchy in nuanced ways they are not its primary victims, and certainly not victims to the same degree as women and LGBTQ+ individuals. And pretending they are to onboard allies is a bit of a slap in the face and a watering down of feminism itself.

Kvapil himself comes to a dark conclusion. “I’ve learned that it’s me who has to change,” he says on camera. “Trying to understand everyone and reach an agreement at any cost could be our greatest source of weakness, the reason these wars are lost. First, the information war, then the real war.”

Someone once told me, “you’re not going to change them, they’re going to change you” and damn that is some wisdom. A pill not easily swallowed if you’ve been raised to reach for the light in everyone. But there are certain points that should not, and cannot, be compromised on.

Do not expect compassion or mutual respect from people who don’t value either. They’re hard wired to see you as the fool, not as someone who worked together for common ground.

Hedy Lamar and Mileva Marić-Einstein

You hear that Canada?! We’re coming for you!