I’m late to the convo, but on the topic of gendered insults, I felt the same way (albeit to a lesser degree) about people using “douche” and “douchebag,” as an insult.
Mainly because of all the bs around marketing of douches to women, as if there’s something inherently unclean about our gender.
My youngest says they saw the original post.
The quote was “Your house, my brick.”
At a minimum…
Needs more rotten eggs and some shaving cream highlights
Indeed, hence, that’s a minimum!
I have opinions about the bare minimum that should be done to his house but it’s probably best for me to
I am sorry, but the OADS system will not target any single house that also has friendlies within the splash zone. and [REDACTED] won’t give me the controls to the orbital lance for the same reason.
I’ve seen various responses on social media (“your balls, my knee” was a good one) but only a couple of gifs/pics so far:
Yes, me too. As I posted elsewhere at Elsewhere:
I hope some men (and boys) get the message that women are far less likely now to put up with that kind of abusive shit.
Naoki Hyakuta is basically our version of Mel Gibson. Luckily, his party only has like 3 seats in the Diet, so nobody takes him all that seriously.
Japan already has concerningly low birthrates, so who is this helping? < rhetorical>
But obviously this is about controlling women
Thanks for the background on this creep, but even with minimal current support / power he was able to make headlines sharing his views. That’s how it starts. IIRC, Gibson still has a career so folks who believe terrible behavior will cause anyone to be “canceled” have nothing to worry about. Women do something to worry about when pols feel comfortable promoting policies like this, because
I am old enough to remember when an extreme right, overt misogynist racist history-denier having any seats in a democracy would be cause for alarm, and I am not all that old.
Your version of Mel Gibson and the culture that enables him sucks though kind of. What a horrible person. What a sad world it is eh?
Prettymuch any support is abysmally depressing.
I feel sorry for your people too I guess along with mine.
But there’s no need to defend that shitshow either. It is what it is.
We need to do better than “it’s just boys bein’ boys”, honestly… Especially now. We need to always point out how misogyny is wrong and is hurtful to all women. And it should be not be acceptable, just because it exists.