Please, god

Toys are normal and fine. Something which is intended to represent the body and the mind of a woman, I see, as encouraging and supporting the sex trade, an industry which not only props up patriarchy on a systemic level but also is individually an incredibly horrifying thing.

What is concerning is not the idea that “perverts” would own it, but instead that “regular” people would own it and have it thus inform their ideas on how women want to and ought to be treated.

It’s about the wider systemic affects that would have for playing into and reinforcing patriarchal attitudes and patriarchal culture.

I don’t really feel comfortable with the idea of men owning simulacra of women intended to be use as objects only for sex. I think it’s pretty obvious that it would make them have worse ideas about women.

Slavery, Chattel

Slavery, Prison

No I just think it’s funny

What would be the motivation behind doing this? Ethnic minorities in China are and always have been exempt from laws like the One Child Policy. It’s called the Xinjiang Autonomous Region because it’s recognized as a nation within a nation, and Uyghurs chiefly govern themselves.

It’s true that there was a period of crackdowns against terroristic forces in the region like ETIM after a series of high profile terroristic attacks in the early 2000s (after the united states began occupying Afghanistan next door), and there was likely some excesses during this period, but repression of an entire people was not the policy.

Religious extremism was identified as coming chiefly due to a lack of economic access, and those who were a part of or committed crimes related to ETIM were sentenced; and while sentenced given the opportunity to learn trade skills. There was a high level of economic investment in the region, leading to a significant reduction in poverty and a corresponding lowering of terroristic activity.

Let’s not forget how the United States and Europe have responded to terror attacks. The United States destroyed Iraq and Syria, killing more than a million civilians in Iraq from an almost total destruction of their government and infrastructure. Right now we see Europe and the US sponsoring the ethnic genocide of Gaza, a genocide of which evidence is easily and readily visible and accessible on any video streaming platform of your choice.

The reality is more complicated than simply a persecuted ethnic minority in communist China. The PRC is not a colonial entity like “Israel”, Uyghurs are citizens of the PRC with recognized special rights and status across the board. I highly highly highly reccomend Li Jingjing’s content on Xinjiang on China, because it aligns very much with my experience while I was in China myself.

There is no reason for news sources to keep applying the word “dinosaur” to pterosaurs. We have known about this distinction for a long time, and I bet that your average 10-year old paleo fan would know not confuse the groups. With even just a tiny bit of an evolutionary perspective, the distinction becomes clear.

She’s just like me

I win!

Maybe “Say No! More”

Yeah, my friends a piano tuner, I have no idea why I said they repair them

To echo @EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net there are legitimately tons of amazing pianos up for grabs at any given time. The reason is is because they’ve become rapidly depreciating assets since the widespread popularization of MIDI Keyboards. Simply put, they’re too expensive to maintain reliably and take up too much space, so most rich folks are just happy to give em away for free just so it’s out of their house.

Find a friend who can tune pianos for you and they can get you a free piano within a week. They might need to tune it for you though

Edit: Piano tuner, not fixer

Hit the ground running

Thank you for your comments.

The comments to my post were not what I expected, but also not a huge surprise.

I believe debate should be respectful whether the participants agree or not. Clearly that does not matter to some people here. Fair enough, I can deal with that. I have met my fair share of knobheads over the years.

It has been suggested I’m in need of serious introspection. That may be true. I’ve lived through quite a lot, probably a fair bit more than most here, and have done a good deal of self reflection for a multitude of reasons. May I suggest some of the commenters may benefit from the same medicine. Some might even need to grow up.

We don’t have any kind of emote for someone’s head being far up their ass but if we did it would work really well in this situation

Love how this nerd just doesn’t engage with any of the TERF stuff or Zionism and just puts his hands up in the air and goes “whelp, them’s the times!”.

No, jackass, it doesn’t have to be the times. The BBC helps to reinforce a right wing backlash and ideological view on the entire Atlantic garbage patch. The BBC is complicit and abetting in apartheid and transgender segregation, and that’s an abhorrent thing. Nobody’s really falling for your schtick of pretending it’s simply showing all sides, there aren’t all sides to these matters.

If they were showing all sides, they’d show a truly working class side of matters, but they only really show bourgeois/rich views on these matters, leaving the only acceptable debate on TV to be between two sides of the views of the rich which don’t make any sense for the vast majority of BBC viewers, working class people.