Damn, I thought it might be children with how they were gatekeeping the info. This is incredibly sad.

It’s a double-edged sword. Joking about and meme-ing about pedophilia also normalizes it which helps predators get closer to victims through “humor”.

More than Taylor Swift ever did.

Both, give or take.

Damn lol. That’s just the reputation the instance has, not my own personal thoughts.

It’s only useful for the real oppressors.

Who are the real oppressors?

Feminism is literally the belief that all genders should be treated equally.

feminism noun fem·​i·​nism ˈfe-mə-ˌni-zəm

: belief in and advocacy of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes expressed especially through organized activity on behalf of women’s rights and interests

Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes.

The crunchy rice is from a specific way of serving it in a hot stone bowl, called dolsot bibimbap.

Ah I thought that’s why “bibimbap” is called that and not a rice bowl. Thanks for sharing!

Whoa, I never said you were lying. I was explaining how I read your comment and WHY I replied with the explanation of the word “literally” having different definitions.

Congratulations, I blocked that community you ran me out of.

You should’ve had womensstuff blocked a long time ago if this is your attitude. Holding a grudge this long for not being allowed in a women’s only community? Really?

I wasn’t offended, I was offering that they didn’t mean that they literally can’t understand. It’s on you that you got offended by me linking to discussion about the word “literally” having different meanings.

Is this satire? How can you “literally not understand” the perspective that the unchanged human face would be preferable for some people over literally anything you could do to it?

I read your comment where you clearly quote what you took issue with and all I did was reply that they weren’t using “literally”…literally lol

i literally cant understand this perspective. septums are great. everyone looks better with a septum. i didnt start really liking my nose until i got mine. i hope you move past your hate someday to find the beauty of the septum piercing.

You took issue with their use of “literally not understand”. They were clearly using the word literally as a figurative saying.

They did the same thing as the commenter they replied to - where’s your comment criticizing the person saying all septum piercings look bad?

It means literally being ‘ruled by the father’. I know languages are living, evolving things, and words’ meanings change and drift, that’s why when we want one to hold its meaning we use dead languages like Ancient Greek. The word that fits that definition is ‘sexism’.

If you’re not going to fully read my replies to you, this is a complete waste of time.

Patriarchy is a social system in which positions of authority are primarily held by men. The term patriarchy is used both in anthropology to describe a family or clan controlled by the father or eldest male or group of males, and in feminist theory to describe a broader social structure in which men as a group dominate society.[1][2][3]

That’s the beautiful part - men can wear skirts whenever they want, too.

Also, bit of a tangent, but is that like an ‘anti-royal we’ or are you old as fuck?

I’m a woman.

It’s the patriarchy that is the reason for these laws. The patriarchy is not synonymous with men and boys. It is the system that upholds strict gender roles for both men and women. The patriarchy is detrimental to men and boys as well.

I don’t have to guess, I have relation with people from cultures where it’s not acceptable yet for women to wear whatever they want. It is enforced by their whole community, not only men, and it, the community, also imposes strict rules on how to live for men too.

Don’t play coy. Those cultures are run by men in positions of power. The law-makers help hold up patriarchal norms.

Even the Wikipedia entry is a good place to try to wrap your head around what the patriarchy actually is instead of erroneously assuming what it is:

Patriarchy is a social system in which positions of authority are primarily held by men. The term patriarchy is used both in anthropology to describe a family or clan controlled by the father or eldest male or group of males, and in feminist theory to describe a broader social structure in which men as a group dominate society.[1][2][3]

Sociologists posit that the process of socialization is predominantly responsible for the establishment of gender roles.[4] They contend that gender roles and gender inequity function as instruments of power and have evolved into social norms that serve to maintain control over women. Patriarchal ideology explains and rationalizes patriarchy by attributing gender inequality to inherent natural differences between men and women, divine commandment, or other fixed structures.[5]

Patriarchy has manifested itself throughout history in the social, legal, political, religious, and economic organization of a range of different cultures.[6] Most contemporary societies are generally patriarchal in practice.[7][8][9]

Somehow men having fewer options than women/been told what to wear is men’s fault and patriarchy or whatever, idk.

The only reason women are allowed to wear pants now is because we demanded it.

It used to be illegal for women to wear pants. Take a wild guess as to who were the ones to make those laws.

There are examples of women in Europe and the US wearing pants long before it was socially acceptable, as writer Kathleen Cooper detailed in The Toast, even though in countries such as the US, England, and France they could actually be jailed for it in the 18th and 19th centuries. Some would dress as men to do things such as join the military. The most famous example was probably 18th-century Englishwoman Hannah Snell, who served for years in the British navy and later become a minor celebrity after revealing that she was a woman. During the US Civil War, Mary Walker, an assistant surgeon with the Union Army, chose pants over skirts (and was once arrested for impersonating a man).

In polite society, though, the fight to make it permissible for women in the US and Europe to wear pants began in earnest in the 1850s, with the women’s rights movement. Feminists were seeking liberation, not just from patriarchal oppression, but from the restrictions of corsets. Though Edwardian and Victorian women had adopted them voluntarily, the undergarments literally made it difficult to move, sometimes even to breathe. Suffragists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton saw dress reform as part of their battle for rights, and some adopted an alternative outfit in the form of baggy “Turkish” pantaloons worn with a knee-length skirt. In April 1851, Amelia Bloomer, the editor of the first women’s newspaper, The Lily, told her readers about it, and thereafter the pants picked up the nickname bloomers.

A brief history of women in pants

Objective statements really attract downvoters sometimes. I don’t get it tbh.

It’s why I’m not on hexbear or the other leftist instances even if I mostly agree with them. Super toxic to each other.

The lemmy.world instance has a reputation that is decidedly not leftist.

Yeah, I think most alternative aesthetic decisions tend to be signifiers of queerness to others. Subtle ways that we tell others that we’re accepting.

If that turns away straight cis men…oh well.

Did we change the definition of ‘literally’?

F. Scott Fitzgerald did it (“He literally glowed”). So did James Joyce (“Lily, the caretaker’s daughter, was literally run off her feet”), W. M. Thackeray (“I literally blazed with wit”), Charlotte Brontë (“she took me to herself, and proceeded literally to suffocate me with her unrestrained spirits”) and others of their ilk.

But the fact that Charles Dickens used literally in a figurative sense (“‘Lift him out,’ said Squeers, after he had literally feasted his eyes, in silence, upon the culprit”) doesn’t stop readers from complaining about our definition. We define literally in two senses:

1. in a literal sense or manner : actually
2. in effect : virtually

Some of our readers are not happy about this. Here are a few of the comments left at this entry:

Definition 2: the dictionary is literally wrong.

This is literally the stupidest thing I’ve ever read.

I literally can’t even.

Some people choose not to leave such comments on our site (perhaps they do not wish to hurt our feelings), but still want to make their displeasure clear. These people comment on other forums, as in this sample taken from a comment thread on dailykos.com:

Considering that Merriam-Webster has redefined “literally” to mean “figuratively,” I’m going with literally.

Our poor language, I’m figuratively about to hurl.

Agreed! How you you [sic] agree to accept (I’m looking at you craven dictionary editors!) a word that means the exact opposite? It’s unfathomably stupid.

Never trust anything but the OED…

It’s fine to trust the OED, but you might want to check their definition first:

literally, adv. 1c. colloq. Used to indicate that some (freq. conventional) metaphorical or hyperbolical expression is to be taken in the strongest admissible sense: “virtually, as good as”; (also) “completely, utterly, absolutely.” —Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd edition, Sept. 2011

Aaargh! That doesn’t seem very literal at all! The dark forces of “figurative-literalism” must have gotten to them, perhaps by blackmailing the editors. Let’s look at how some other current dictionaries define this word.

literally, adv. … 3.b. Used as an intensive before a figurative expression. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, 2016

literally, adverb … 2. (intensifier) ⇒ there were literally thousands of people —Collins English Dictionary

Literally every modern dictionary includes a definition for the metaphoric or intensifying sense of the word literally. Why do we hate the English language so?

We don’t.