merridew

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[–] merridew@feddit.uk 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Return of the Obra Dinn.

[–] merridew@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Female" as an adjective isn't the problem. The problem is "female" as a noun.

You can describe a person as being female all you like, but if you start calling them "a female" & defined purely in terms of the existence of their sex organs, you're in the wrong.

[–] merridew@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, I've seen the screenshot. Eh. It's a gross post, and apparently OP acted like twat; I won't lose sleep over it not getting attention.

[–] merridew@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

All the top posts on r/askwomennocensor seem to be women complaining about how the sub is overrun with men asking for dating tips, with the mods stating in a thread 16 days ago:

We remove a thing, and suddenly we get called fascist, tyrant, "chronically online," etc., and members wildly upvote those public callouts.

Yall gotta decide if yall want "fascist tyrants" or to be plagued with inane incel questions. We remove a dating question? "Tyrants!" We let it go? "Why is this sub so trashy?"

As one redditor notes:

I know this sub was created because the other asksubs have so many rules. But this is unfortunately one of the reasons why so many rules exist.

[–] merridew@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

... unwelcoming of misogyny? Surprising.

[–] merridew@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

When it's used like that it is.

You wouldn't describe a man as "a male", and you wouldn't refer to your mother as "a female".

[–] merridew@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago
[–] merridew@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

Voting with your wallet isn't a violation of free speech. Dictating where your money is spent isn't censorship.

And as Citizens United established, money is speech.

[–] merridew@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ahem. I believe you are referring to this request, made by the ADL to the Icelandic Ministry for Foreign Affairs, that the Minister take action to shut down the hosting of a website

mapping and publishing addresses of Jewish individuals and institutions [in Boston] and calling for these individuals and institutions to be “dismantled” and “disrupted”

which had recently migrated to a hosting service based in Iceland. Its anonymous "anti-Zionist" creators state that they

have shown physical addresses, named officers and leaders, and mapped connections. These entities exist in the physical world and can be disrupted in the physical world. We hope people will use our map to help figure out how to push back effectively.

So I'm not really sure what you mean in terms of "precedent". Telling people that anti-Semitic material being hosted on servers inside a country is being hosted on servers inside a country is not a false accusation of anything.

https://www.adl.org/resources/letter/adl-letter-icelands-minister-foreign-affairs-regarding-mapping-project

https://www.adl.org/boston-mapping-project

[–] merridew@feddit.uk 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It was eventually removed from the woman’s abdomen in 2021, approximately 18 months after the initial procedure and a number of visits to her GP. On one occasion, her pain was so severe that she visited the emergency department at Auckland city hospital.

I wish this was surprising.

From heart disease to IUDs: How doctors dismiss women’s pain

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/interactive/2022/women-pain-gender-bias-doctors

‘I was told to live with it’: women tell of doctors dismissing their pain

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/apr/16/painkillers-women-tell-of-doctors-dismissing-their-pain

[–] merridew@feddit.uk 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In an earlier interview this month with Fox News, Ramaswamy said of the layoffs: “What [Musk] did at Twitter is a good example of what I want to do with the administrative state … Take out the 75% of the dead weight cost, improve the actual experience of what it’s supposed to do.”

Unrelated:

Elon Musk admits X (Twitter) 'may fail' after sacking more than 80% of staff, charging for verification and rebranding https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12432129/amp/Elon-Musk-admits-X-Twitter-fail-sacking-80-staff-charging-verification-rebranding.html

[–] merridew@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The UK had Grenfell just a few years ago.

https://youtu.be/KczK1kGhp1I

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