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  • lots of reasons - early indoctrination, for one. but there are also benefits for women like this.

    women who buy in are given a lot of power - over other women, minorities, children. they’re also told that they’ll be protected from the harm they see happening to other women (that they and the men in their lives participate in creating). i recall a recovering white supremacist woman who believed the white men around her wanted to protect good white women and girls until she was at an event and witnessed a bunch of guys raping a girl. she understood the lie, then.

    so, for the same reason as the men. fear and control. and for public figures like this, money and power. women are as painfully human as men are, so over the years i’ve come to accept that the only reason more women aren’t shitheads politically in the way conservative men are is because the harm from being a shithead hits them in more direct ways, like not being able to get appropriate healthcare.

    anyway, that’s my rambling answer.





  • Trump won the 2024 election on the promise of “the largest deportation operation in American history”, but few anticipated a crackdown on documented immigrants, including visa and green card holders and citizens who have the status by birth or naturalisation, or tourists.

    Plenty of people anticipated this. Who’s easier to deport when you want to get rid of a big number quickly? Someone living under the radar? Or someone who’s right on file and complies with orders to come in? And if there’s no due process, you can say they committed any crime you want to justify it. It’s not like morality or honesty would stop anyone involved in the process.


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    something about how upright the cat’s sitting? i don’t know, exactly. i just looked at the pic before reading the caption and thought “uhoh.” the long-term effect of having a cat who’d occasionally piss in the wrong place when she was young, i guess.






  • iirc, there was one old harvest moon game where you played as a woman and you could marry a guy OR live forever with your female bestie. i don’t remember if that one made it to the english speaking world.

    stardew valley really upped the game when the guy who made it decided it’d be no big deal if you wanted to pursue a same sex relationship in it. now it feels like a standard of the genre to let you do that, and it really wasn’t always like that. other games did it, too, but it still felt exceptional back then.

    (but, yeah, the gay thing was a big deal for me personally, especially at the time sdv came out. i don’t know if it was generally a big deal for most players, but that’s definitely a reason for it to catch a certain sort of player’s eye back when it was first becoming popular.)