You won’t find disagreement here.

The fact of the matter is that the change won’t happen overnight; and there’s already a disproportional number of assaults against women, even if they’re fully dressed when the assault begins.

While the argument of “she was asking for it” relating to what someone is wearing, is entirely bullshit and without any merit, and the fact that it’s on the male culture to… Idk, not be rapists, and not encourage rapists and rapist tenancies; I know plenty of women that don’t want to risk encouraging such behavior against themselves. Whether they should need to or not isn’t material to the point. They don’t feel safe otherwise.

I’m not going to tell anyone what to wear. I will say that maybe people just shouldn’t rape other people, regardless of circumstances. No, not maybe. They definitely should not, under any circumstances, ever rape anyone. Just don’t rape people.

Anyways. It would be a long road to get to the place you propose, and a lot of violence would likely happen before we would see the ideal that you are describing. I wish it was different, but I can’t change the world, I can only change myself.

Genuine answer: I’m specifically speaking to how men and women are treated as a matter of law.

Laws should not differentiate between men, women, sexual orientation or identity, sexual preferences, kinks, lifestyles, etc.

If a thing is illegal, it should be illegal for everyone, or noone. In this case, the law says that it is legal to go topless unless you are a woman. It specifically cites, as a rule of law, that women are to be treated differently on purpose. That, by definition, is sexist.

Almost all of the other examples you provided are matters of social norms, comforts, and tropes. Nothing else you mentioned has the same weight as the rule of law.

Women have different clothing and different clothing styles than men, they’re shaped differently so we make clothes that fit the female form better, just like we have clothes that fit the male form better.

Different washrooms, I disagree with; we should have gender neutral bathrooms and put all this transphobia bullshit about what bathroom people use, to bed. Bluntly: the bathroom isn’t a social gathering, people generally are not walking around unclothed or partially clothed in the common areas of even a gendered bathroom. You go in there to resolve your bodily needs to expel waste. Get in, do what you need to do, and get out. With a little more effort in isolating stalls, an ungendered bathroom is the best option. You don’t have a “men’s” and “women’s” bathroom at home… They don’t pointlessly gender bathrooms in planes or busses, among many other places, so making bathrooms that are meant for larger groups in public spaces, gendered, does not really logically make any sense at all.

There’s a ton more I could say about this or many other things but simply: I feel like I’ve addressed your question.

Let me know if you need any further clarifications.

Aah yes. Because declining someone’s mortgage application = literal murder.

/s

Yeah. That seems sexist.

Free the nipple.

Trust me when I say this: none of the right-wing media/politicians, will understand that they’ve made any points on behalf of the protestors by blurring the “men’s” nipples.

Also, saying men can go around topless but not women, is sexist. Any such law should be removed. We should all be equal in the eyes of the law. With that said: that shouldn’t imply that women should go around topless. It should just be legally allowed. I’m a guy, but I don’t think I need to explain to anyone the potential complications from going around topless as a woman… Whether trans or not.

The whole situation is dumb. Society needs to do better. We’re all people. Let’s keep that in mind and treat everyone the same, based on the fact that they are a human person in society. No legal separation of sex, gender, race, religion, or anything else. If you are a human person, you should have the same rights and freedoms as every other human person.

As someone who works for a living, I must agree.

Honestly, if I opened my lunchbox to this, I would be pretty happy. Though, I’d wonder where the rest of the PBJ went?

Whatever, food!

Fiber is good for you.

You don’t have to. It’s socially accepted and preferred if you do, but I have, and have had done to me, simply ignoring the question and moving the conversation forward to the point.

I live in Canada, we follow a lot of the same here, I try to be more genuine than the average and give a nonspecific but truthful response. Anything from “I’m having a day”, to “it could be worse”, or “not the worst” kind of deal. Basically setting a low bar for how I’m doing and saying I’m somewhere above that.

You don’t have to reply with “fine”, but it’s one of the fastest ways to end the greeting part of the conversation and move on to more important topics.

More or Less.

Personally I blame the absentee voters. People who could have voted, but didn’t, and by not voting, indirectly supported Trump in winning the election.

Unless there’s a serious shake up of how things work in the USA, there’s shit all that can be done about it now, since getting him out of office requires that the people near the top (senators/Congress/whatever) need to take action in indict him and start the process of ejecting him from office, but then they’ll be left with the current VP, and I’m not sure that’s better.

Either way, nobody at the top is taking action against Trump, so the whole thing is moot. They have grounds, but they are not willing to do it.

GG. RIP the USA.

Either people voted against him, for him, or abstained from voting (implicitly agreeing with whatever decision the majority made).

The last two groups there, vastly outweighed the first one in this election.

You’re right, not everyone wanted this… But that’s how democracy is. You vote and, at least in theory, the person that the most people vote for (believe in/agree with), is then made president.

By definition, democracy will always have people who didn’t vote for the current government.

All I’m saying is that either by action (voting for Trump) or inaction (not voting), a majority decided that he should become president.

I think you mean “over”. (Thanks, I make many typos, just returning the favor)

And… Didn’t Trump get the popular vote this time around? So more there were more voters for Trump than anyone else?

Idk. I don’t live there but I know your voting system well enough… Since everyone wants to talk about it, apparently.

The fact that he won, even by a small amount, which… In this case, he won by more than a small amount, is the point. You and your fellow Americans knew what you were signing up for, and you knew what he was saying he will do this time around. None of this was a surprise. He’s been talking deportation and tariffs for over a year. Now that they’re here, suddenly a lot of people are regretting their decisions… Again, this was not a surprise. They voted for this and yet take issue when this exact thing happens.

There may be many people who didn’t vote that could have, who would have voted against Trump, but the fact is, by not voting, you are implicitly agreeing with whatever decision is made by your fellow citizens. Putting the decision in their hands. As someone once said “if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.”

Either you voted for it, you were okay with letting others decide and you’re complicit, or, you were part of the minority of people who voted against Trump. One of these three things is true for each and every American.

I’m sorry, but this is what the majority of the people in your country wanted.

Real fan?

Bitch please. We’ve put up with your crap for so long and we still play it…

Get out of here with that horse shit. Get fucked. Fuck you, and the horse you rode in on. At best, I’ll wait for a sale, at worst, I’m never playing your goddamned franchise again because you’ve run it into the ground with enshittification.

Rip.

Good luck buying a new one with all of * gestures at everything * this going on.

Nobody is except one person. It’s Mr Rogers in a blood stained sweater.

You see, “how are you?” Isn’t a genuine quotation, it’s just a way of saying “hello” and feigning interest in someone’s well-being. In all actual fact, nobody gives a shit.

Just say “fine” and move on.

No. You and your fellow citizens voted for this.

Do snails grow noses at night?

I’m not sure who they were trying to fool? Bluntly, if you’re keeping your passwords in a local repo using strong encryption via something like keepass, you’re generally not the kind of person to see “KeePassXE Pro ultra mega best edition” and blindly download it without vetting the source…

The only circumstances where I’d consider entertaining such ridiculous processes is: 1. If I was unemployed with nothing better to do, or 2. If it was a bonafide fact that the job was excellent (eg, if someone I trusted said it was a good place to work, outlining the benefits and drawbacks of working there).

Otherwise, if I’m working and you’re asking for multiple hours of my work day, multiple times for interview things just so I can have a chance at getting the job? No thanks. I’m going to value a paycheque that I’m currently earning over one I could maybe have the opportunity to earn.

But I’m also not new to my chosen career path as a systems administrator (among so many other titles/hats that I wear). Bluntly, if you want me, make me an offer. I’ll entertain a normal conversation about what I’m bringing to the table and vice versa, but beyond that, if you’re on the fence about whether I’m worthwhile, then I’m in the wind. 🖕

That’s a hot take, I’m interested to see how that works out for you.

I always debate with myself whether it’s worthwhile to weigh in on these things because no matter what opinion you have there’s a group of very opinionated people who will disagree with you, despite not being involved in the conflict and having no personal stake in the outcome.

All I’ll say on the matter is: are we not passed the point of killing eachother for land/resources? No? Alright then.