Posts by Crabby@spinster.xyz
(DIR) Post #9skH8z2t3kViAebETg by Crabby@spinster.xyz
2020-03-06T23:14:40Z
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@peachyradfem Oh, cool! When I posted that originally, there were no other replies. (At least, none I could see.) All good!
(DIR) Post #9sl2coDwYQlJ8oUjvE by Crabby@spinster.xyz
2020-03-06T23:23:16Z
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@kathleenbee It's exactly what social media has trained them to do: be anonymous behind your screen but say whatever you like that damages someone else.Aussies call it 'white-anting' - a form of character assassination by slower eating you from the ground up. (White ants here are termites - eat your house from the inside out.)
(DIR) Post #9smnkV3A8H0WnuAHZo by Crabby@spinster.xyz
2020-03-08T04:29:31Z
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@LostInCalifornia @AthenasWrench Greer said that 21 years ago. Aside from that her crystal ball couldn't see that far into the future, she's clearly not familiar enough with the inner workings of the most demented male minds on the planet to glean what they most covet: to render femaleness redundant by taking that which makes females unique and is one of the few fucking things we do get recognition for. Hateful pricks, these trans fuckers.
(DIR) Post #9sqcZuU6ma2D0OwmDg by Crabby@spinster.xyz
2020-03-10T00:43:11Z
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@Brookryn Local chapter of the Mad F***ing Witches should nab the prick and get Medieval on his arse by making him 'ride the stang'. A stang is an archaic word for a wooden pole, often a pitchfork pole. In England, for instance, this practice was known by other names - the 'skimmington', lew-belling, ran-tanning - and charivari further afield. It was used by the working and peasant classes as humiliation and punishment upon a man for avoiding fines, allowing himself to be publicly scolded by his wife, for instance.In Scotland's Highlands, it was used by clansmen on domestic violence perpetrators because the woman was often their cousin, sister or sister-in-law, aunt, etc. While a pitchfork was used in other places further south or east, it was a young birch that was sacrificed for the task when domestic violence was the crime. Its branches were snapped off to ensure lots of splinters stuck out from the tree's trunk. The perpetrator was sometimes stripped then hog-tied to the trunk, then vigorously shaken up and down until his lesson was well learned."At the words 'wife' and 'stang' they liftit it as heich as they could, an then loot it suddenly fa' again; an he cam doon wi a thud every time on some o' the ens o' the brenches yt had been left stickin oot for his benefit, an' the scraiches o' him wus fearful. The stang was through atween his legs, ye ken." (Excerpt from de Bruce Trotter in the 'Galloway gossip', as quoted by Anne-Marie Kilday, 'Women and Violent Crime in Enlightenment Scotland', Royal Historical Society, 2007, page 90.)
(DIR) Post #9svWAo6jj8CY3NSfmC by Crabby@spinster.xyz
2020-03-12T09:21:12Z
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@STILLTish Hmm. Some of these trans folk really are quite disturbed.
(DIR) Post #9swfLbYro7sN4ZnpLs by Crabby@spinster.xyz
2020-03-12T09:33:38Z
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@Ladyfat I ticked the 'Yes, I am worried' because there wasn't an option more nuanced.I'm most worried that selfish, stupid people with lots of money are panic buying and that'll make matters a whole lot worse for people who can't afford to buy more than their weekly or fortnightly staples.
(DIR) Post #9t1k4j3g9TEixjmk1Q by Crabby@spinster.xyz
2020-03-15T09:29:01Z
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@Camille This virus is certainly going to expose the weaknesses in a health system that's been cut to the bone so that rich people can have their tax cuts.
(DIR) Post #9t1lyprq7fxsFdZBku by Crabby@spinster.xyz
2020-03-15T09:26:06Z
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@FeartnTired @Camille Actually, there could be an up side to this. If his followers ignore the warnings, then it's very possible there'll be rather fewer of them come November than there were in 2016, and he'll be the first one-trick pony since George H.W. Bush left office way back in 1992.
(DIR) Post #9t3HaySntzfdeYTwuG by Crabby@spinster.xyz
2020-03-16T03:19:20Z
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@Starlit_Fire No, it isn't masculine, and to remove it - to reinforce what men thought desirable femininity should look like - has been an American cultural fad and enormous income-earner for the 'beauty' industry since the end of WWII. Women didn't waste good steel now used in razor blades on shaving themselves to within an inch of their lives during WWII. That was steel needed to armour-plate tanks and ships to save the lives of those fighting the war. It's a purely post-war, socially constructed fashion that ought to be consigned to histroy's ashheap.
(DIR) Post #9t4WLXnWzRxFTvEWiO by Crabby@spinster.xyz
2020-03-16T17:37:08Z
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@gm23 Hypocrisy, much?
(DIR) Post #9t7Pg1Gdrxrmxz4Nmq by Crabby@spinster.xyz
2020-03-18T03:08:44Z
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@LostInCalifornia @kathleenbee Massive cockwomble.
(DIR) Post #9t8xwfRaZ8NRXIWe8m by Crabby@spinster.xyz
2020-03-18T02:49:16Z
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@PedanticBohemian It's ridiculous in Australia, too. Our supermarkets have started opening up the very first hour for peaople who have Seniors' Cards, disabled folk and other welfare recipients who have a Health Care Card to prove it. The first day, supermarket staff weren't checking for that, and there were stories of healthy young people shunting aside frail people using walking frames and sticks.My flatmate and I actually did need toilet paper today, so we turned up early (my flatmate is a Senior Card holder, and yes, the supermarket staff did check her card! hooray!), and we bought exactly the quantity we normally do.While the shelves were a little sparse in places, if it wasn't for panic buying, there would be enough of everything for everyone.
(DIR) Post #9t8xwgTOjtQ0jCNbbE by Crabby@spinster.xyz
2020-03-18T20:23:19Z
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@PedanticBohemian Churches that provide food for the needy and other charities here have been an unexpected casualty of the panic buying because the supermarkets have much less close-to-use-by-date stock to give them. The poor are getting thoroughly screwed every which way. Sigh. It was ever thus.As for the sociopath, at least Joe has a heart. Let's hope he gets enough to roll the stupid Electoral College - what a sham that thing is! It exists only to make sure citizens' votes are decidedly NOT equal! It's a wonder the Supremes haven't killed it. (In case you're unaware why it's a rort, the least populous states' citizens get more electors than the most populous. California is the most disadvantaged of all as its citizens get one EC seat per just under half a million registered voters, iirc. Least populous states like Wyoming, Alaska, etc, get one EC seat per just over quarter of a million voters. If the EC seats were distributed proportionally instead of 1 per Senate seat plus 1 per HoR seat, then Hillary would've romped home in 2016. Sucks to be her, but at least Biden's promised he'll pick a female VP. My bet's Amy Klobuchar for her great legislative track record. Warren's too far left, so I doubt she'd get the job, plus she's all about the trans now.)
(DIR) Post #9tCS7JLcBs5knxNrt2 by Crabby@spinster.xyz
2020-03-20T13:29:36Z
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@LostInCalifornia @AnneBevan @PedanticBohemian Ah-hah! I've missed a coupla hints apparently!
(DIR) Post #9u7eALPDHJpGB0O7to by Crabby@spinster.xyz
2020-04-17T03:43:09Z
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@Zaatar Except the author has conflated (or confused?) biological sex with gender. It's biological sex, not socially-constructed gender roles, which gets female fetuses aborted and female infants starved to death or bashed over their heads with rocks in nations like China and India that have strong cultural preferences for sons and/or where dowries are sometimes still demanded/paid to take girls off parents' hands.Amartya Sen wrote about this in 1990 in the NY Review of Books. He estimated there were 100 million missing girls and women at that time. Now that ultrasound tech has spread into those nations and is relatively inexpensive to access, the abortion of female fetuses phenomenon has accelerated greatly.
(DIR) Post #9uGAbXKSOXAKRMZGr2 by Crabby@spinster.xyz
2020-04-21T06:24:18Z
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@SheChanges I live in Australia, and we went quite early and hard in locking down wherever it was possible. Australia's population is about 25 million, we've had not quite 6700 cases confirmed and 71 deaths.I see you live in Illinois, population about 12.7 million (?) - about half of Australia's. You've had 31,500-ish cases confirmed with 1,349 deaths as at a couple of hours ago (source: https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/coronavirus/illinois-reports-1151-new-cases-of-coronavirus-59-additional-deaths/2258826/)That's 1,349 people with families and friends who loved them who have died, versus our 71.How much is one life worth to those who love them? If me mostly staying home for a month or two means I make do on less income but I don't have to bury my Dad or my best friend, then a month or two out of my life is nothing.Also bear in mind that if it hadn't been for the "totalitarian lockdown", the case numbers and death tolls would be far, far higher and our health systems would be collapsing left, right and center. We'd have medical staff put in the horrible position of having to ask themselves, 'We have four people who need this one ventilator; whose life is most worth saving?'You might want to consider history's litany of pandemics, like the Black Death (bubonic plague) that rolled through Asia, Europe and Africa from about 1347-8 until about 1352. It killed half or more of the populations in some places. We're lucky that with our technology and established health systems we can save so many lives.You might also want to think about how lucky we are that our health workers have stayed at their posts despite the risks to themselves and their own families, and not fled as many people did in those days.Perhaps now is a good time to feel grateful for all we have and for those who put themselves at risk for us, and not aggrieved by temporary inconveniences. This, too, will pass.
(DIR) Post #9uGLyTqCcztpmLYlFY by Crabby@spinster.xyz
2020-04-21T08:31:46Z
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@SheChanges Sandy, dissent's a good thing. It's healthy in a democracy. BUT, a growing mountain of peer-reviewed evidence aside..."[M]andatory invasive tracking devices (implants/chips)" - we're getting into tin foil hat territory.
(DIR) Post #9uGSXAtZetuMse3ziy by Crabby@spinster.xyz
2020-04-21T08:49:12Z
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@You_cat_to_be_kitten_me @beccabei @socjuswiz Nope, me either! Mine's going grey gracefully, too, as I can't afford to colour it and honestly, couldn't really be bothered either. If silvery-grey's good enough for the awesome Dame Judi Dench, it's good enough for me.
(DIR) Post #9uGSf2urD2taRwPuTY by Crabby@spinster.xyz
2020-04-21T09:46:40Z
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@LostInCalifornia @You_cat_to_be_kitten_me @beccabei @socjuswiz Yeah, I reckon it's terrific. And, damn it, I worked hard for every one of mine!
(DIR) Post #9uGUCFCIfViI39yB4C by Crabby@spinster.xyz
2020-04-21T10:03:50Z
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@LostInCalifornia @You_cat_to_be_kitten_me @beccabei @socjuswiz Suits Jamie Lee, too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxbWww_WrFc