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poor people get treated as dumb and ignorant bc we don't always know how shit works but that's usually not ignorance or stupidity imo.

I have a haircut tomorrow. I've done it in my bathroom since I was in middle school, save for twice as birthday gifts over the past 8-12 years. I don't know what to expect, what the etiquette is, what they even do, because I genuinely didn't think to go somewhere to cut my hair for 10ish years.

when I lived in a city, I had a friend visit. she couldn't figure out the transit system, rideshares, or anything. the town we grew up in has none of that. she's a smart woman, but people got so confused when she couldn't figure it out.

this is just basic stuff, but my point is that poor people are left without what seems like basic knowledge because we just don't have the money to need to know how to use it or our communities just lack it, be it haircuts or uber. and that's small, silly stuff compared to things like credit scores or retirement funds. why and how are you supposed to know what an IRA is when you can't afford to put money into it? how do you shop for healthcare, for fair interest rates when buying a car or house, when there's never been enough money to make that even seem relevant to your life?

then so many of these companies know you don't know. yeah, 200% interest for a payday loan is normal because you've never had the ability to build credit and get a less predatory loan. you have to have car insurance in the US, and very specific, expensive insurance if you've had certain criminal convictions like a DUI, but you need to drive for work. so you pick the cheapest policy, especially if you have a record, and it covers nothing. you crash or get hit, it goes up and you're left w the fees, not the company.

we can talk about financial literacy being an issue, but we don't really talk about why. or the fact that, even if you know you're very well-educated on why this whole system is clownery all the way down, you're still stuck with lack of experience, lack of credit, and lack of options. and you get to hear middle class and rich liberals talk about how you just need more education, when that education can't be applied on the regular. so you say smth and it's just "oh, yeah, I have student loans, I get it." like no, dude, I'm talking payday loans, shitty insurance, evictions on record from not knowing your own rights because you're too busy working for $7.25 or $15 or whatever.

we don't need education so much as we need options, especially for women.

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I'm annoyed when people review people in abusive relationships but when it's kink suddenly it's fine and the abuse context doesn't exist anymore. (This is what really prompted this post, yes I have a YT problem)

I'm surprised that no one ever did a review on the reviews of a book.

I can see it going really really bad but it would be interesting.

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I'm surprised that no one ever did a review on the reviews of a book.

I can see it going really really bad but it would be interesting.

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like to charge reblog to cast

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if you’re unwilling to cleanly cut off rapists from your social group i think you have no business calling yourself a feminist or claiming solidarity with other women. it’s really the bare minimum action in supporting other women and if you won’t do it you aren’t shit.

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At this point is just think they either don't understand how novels are structured (because they don't have at least a reading habit), or don't understand their stories.

I think Verity would have been a good book... If Lowen or Jeremy were the bad guys. (His character is stupid and Lowen voice is pathetic but it can be part of it)

You know, you have this character that struggles with self confidence and is suddenly "living the dream" and decides to steal the life she always wanted it's such a great concept.

Lately I've seen this in so many books (or book reviews), were you have good concepts, good plot and just... Do nothing with it.

It incredibly frustrates me as a reader. Sure there are books that shouldn't have been published professionally (not advocating for censorship, but certain novels are so bad), but really? I feel like the quality is going down.

I do understand the appeal to read something simple, reading takes energy and sometimes you just don't have that. But sometimes it's too simple, you know what I mean?

[loser-female]

I think Verity would have been a good book... If Lowen or Jeremy were the bad guys. (His character is stupid and Lowen voice is pathetic but it can be part of it)

You know, you have this character that struggles with self confidence and is suddenly "living the dream" and decides to steal the life she always wanted it's such a great concept.

Lately I've seen this in so many books (or book reviews), were you have good concepts, good plot and just... Do nothing with it.

It incredibly frustrates me as a reader. Sure there are books that shouldn't have been published professionally (not advocating for censorship, but certain novels are so bad), but really? I feel like the quality is going down.

I do understand the appeal to read something simple, reading takes energy and sometimes you just don't have that. But sometimes it's too simple, you know what I mean?

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The Iranian Regime is going to execute rapper Toomaj Salehi for supporting protests of Jina Amini’s murder by the regime in his songs.

Iranian activist Elica Le Bon says, “Iranians in the diaspora picked up on the fact that the regime tends not to execute people who become known to the international community. We have seen many examples of prisoners that were either released on bail or had their sentences commuted through our “say their names to save their lives” campaign on social media, using hashtags to garner attention for their causes, and even before social media existed, through getting the stories of political prisoners to international media outlets. Once reported on, and once the eyes shift to the regime and the reality of its pending brutality, realizing that the action is not worth the repercussions, we have seen them back down and not execute. For that reason, this is part of an urgent campaign for readers to talk about Toomaj as much as you can, using the hashtag #FreeToomaj or #ToomajSalehi. Every comment makes a difference, and if we were wrong, what did we lose by trying?”

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Like if I could bring this down to 100€/month I'd be able to invest the rest of the money or just part of it and the rest pool them for travelling.

But no, because fuck me.

Yes I do get some of it back when I file my taxes. Keyword: some.

Still it's 3k/year, which is a lot of money.

I really feel bad about this. It's not the money in itself, I can afford it, it's the fact that I feel like I'm paying some tax (on the top of the taxes I already pay) to not kms, not feel pain and in general being a functioning adult instead of one that sleeps 18 hours a day and can't keep her thoughts together because of chronic pain.

I probably said it before but every time I check my bank account and I see how much money I spend on health I kinda want to throw up.

It ranges from 200 to 400€/month if you're curious, between meds, therapy (I go private because I can pick and choose), random medical appointments.

[loser-female]

I probably said it before but every time I check my bank account and I see how much money I spend on health I kinda want to throw up.

It ranges from 200 to 400€/month if you're curious, between meds, therapy (I go private because I can pick and choose), random medical appointments.

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Christ I forgot to have lunch

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A gang of voyeurs hid in changing rooms at swimming pools to secretly film more than 5,000 young women getting undressed, a court heard.

Adam Dennis, 39, and Robert Morgan, 33, 'hunted' for teenage girls and made catalogues of their pictures to share and trade online.

Father-of-one Dennis even made 'profile documents' of his victims using social media and swimming pool club records.

Inner London Crown Court heard the gang spent days hanging around the pools in East London and Surrey for over four years between April 2013 and November 2017.

Their sick videos were only discovered when police raided fellow conspirator Miguel Jose Sainz's home and were horrified to find thousands of pictures on his devices.

The whereabouts of fellow voyeur Sainz is not known while the fourth conspirator, Declan Golden, has fled to the United States.

The court heard that the voyeur gang would sneak into changing rooms during the day and lock themselves away in cubicles, lying in wait for unsuspecting victims.

The conspirators would then conceal a small hidden camera in a bag and push it underneath the cubicle partition, allowing the camera, which was recording, to film young women undressing.

The technique, which the four called 'hunting' meant their victims would only ever see the bag partially poking out.

After capturing footage, the four would then select and edit their favourite clips into short videos and share them amongst themselves.

Morgan and his companions discussed their techniques online and even met up in person to carry out their twisted fantasies together.

They discussed 'hunting' for 'OTs' which referred to older teenagers who had reached puberty but were below 18.

Messages read out in court from Dennis to Golden said: 'I wish I could have seen some of my OTs from my school days as they were then.

Golden told Dennis: 'I have another OT on the lower end of the spectrum if you know what I mean, not really my cup of tea but it might be good for trading material.

'Mr Golden told Mr Dennis that it was 'kind of exciting to find a whole new side to you, especially one I have myself.'

'I think it's because they would be more embarrassed than anyone else.'

Gang leader Dennis, who has a 19-month-old son, and the group also cross-referenced their videos with swimming pool visitor logs and researched their victims, creating a huge database.

The group regularly discussed their sick activities, describing their enjoyment of having 'power' over their victims and getting a thrill from stalking them online.

Judge Benedict Kelleher told the two men said: 'You engaged both of you in a conspiracy which involved two other men as well.

'It aimed at obtaining images of women and girls getting undressed in changing rooms principally in swimming pools, and then storing them, editing them, sharing them with each other and in your case Mr Dennis matching them up with other information you had discovered about the women that you were photographing.

'The principle locations were two public swimming pools.

'Both of you, it appears, regularly went to those places with covert photographic equipment and spent many hours hiding in changing rooms waiting to photograph women and girls who came into the adjacent changing room or cubicle.

'You plainly both put a great deal of effort into the planning of this kind of offending.

'You put a lot of thought and consideration into the kind of equipment that you needed.

'Indeed both of you discussed also going with other conspirators, together referring to it as 'hunting'.

'The scope of this was frankly enormous.’

'Both of you were frequently visiting locations and taking pictures, and its suggested by prosecution creating...5,000 separate sets of images.

'You, Mr Dennis put a huge amount effort into collating them.

'You could create effectively a profile of each of the women and girls you had photographed for further depraved satisfaction on your part.’

Ringleader Dennis was jailed for 22 months while Morgan, who describes himself as a part-time musician and senior webcast producer, was sentenced to 20 months imprisonment suspended for two years.

#if you do things like that you don't deserve to live imho

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The very first bill ever proposed by a female lawmaker in the United States came from Colorado state representative Carrie Clyde Holly in January 1895. Building on a decade of women’s activism, Holly’s ambitious legislation sought to raise the age of consent in the state to 21 years old. In 1890, the age at which girls could consent to sex was 12 or younger in 38 states. In Delaware, it was seven. […]

[…] Based on English Common Law dating back to the 1500s, American lawmakers had selected 10 or 12 as the age of consent to coincide with the onset of puberty, as if once a girl menstruated she was ready to have sex. Men accused of raping girls as young as 7 could (and did) simply say “she consented” to avoid prosecution. Reformers understood that once “ruined,” these young victims of assault could be forced into prostitution because no man would marry or hire a “fallen woman.”

Prostitution especially concerned wives and mothers because, before penicillin became widely available in 1945, syphilis and gonorrhea were more widespread than all other infectious diseases combined. Wives who unknowingly contracted STIs from their husbands could pass them on to their unborn children, resulting in miscarriages, fetal abnormalities, blindness, epilepsy and unsightly “syphilis teeth.” In most cases, women could not successfully sue for divorce, support themselves, or retain custody of their children if they did divorce. […]

[…] British purity reformers had succeeded in raising the age of consent to 13 in 1861, and the movement received international attention in 1885 after muckraking journalist William T. Stead went undercover in London’s brothels. Stead published a series of salacious articles, collectively titled “The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon,” in the Pall Mall Gazette detailing how London’s husbands and fathers paid top dollar to deflower child virgins in the city’s brothels. Within months, public outcry led Parliament to raise the age of consent to 16.

[…] Many lawmakers rejected women’s presence in public affairs and further resented the unprecedented campaign to curtail white men’s sexual prerogatives. So they stone-walled WCTU members, inserted neutralizing or mocking language in their proposed bills, and occasionally outright banned women from their galleries. The few legislators who went on record in support of young ages of consent voiced sympathy for hypothetical men who would be ensnared into marriage by conniving girls who consented to sex and later threatened to press charges. […]

[…] For years, black women—including Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Ida B. Wells—had called attention to the fact that white men used rape as a tool of white supremacy. […]

White Southern lawmakers stridently opposed revised age-of-consent laws because they did not want black women to be able to charge white men with a crime. Kentucky state representative A. C. Tompkins went on record with his opposition, explaining, “We see at once what a terrible weapon for evil the elevating of the age of consent would be when placed in the hands of a lecherous, sensual n*gro woman,” insinuating that black women, who he claimed matured earlier and had a more sexual nature, would seduce men and then accuse them of assault. […]

- Kimberly Hamlin "What Raising the Age of Sexual Consent Taught Women About the Vote" 2020

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idk abt yall but im actually quite hopeful for the future. more women in trades, more women are aspiring to own property without a man, more women are accepting their autonomy as full and complete human beings without the need for a male to own them…. idk like the internet shows all the wackjobs all the time but there’s a substantial amount of women in real life working hard for THEIR future (and not their future husband’s or kids) and it’s just really inspiring to me

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Idk if I should play chess all day or write all day.

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I find it really upsetting when leftists sexualize Abby Shapiro for having big boobs. Like Vaush going on about how she should show off her cleavage on twitch for money or how Xanderhal kept going on about her "milkers" in his streams about her. Like she's a judgemental self righteous douche* but she makes it a point that she does not want to be sexualized, so antagonistically mocking her and pushing that boundary just to spite her is incredibly misogynistic. Because what's funny about it? The joke is just "LMAO woman doesn't like being sexualized and I'm doing it anyways!!XD" it just cements the fact that a lot of left wing people only care about progressive values so long as they can weaponize it. It's just really fucking disheartening. Just because a woman is conservative does not give you a free pass to sexually harass and objectify her. Focus on her shitty politics, not her body.

[TERFS/RADFEMS DNI THIS ISN'T FOR YOU]

#rb just for the dni lol #y'all need to grow up a bit