and having learned that bluesky is made with AI we should prepare to leave this, too

four panel comic. panel one: a cartoon man addresses a brain: “hey Brain how’s it goin?” panel two: the brain is obscured by many many black scratchy lines, making it look like an evil tumbleweed panel three: the man takes this in silently panel four:man: “yea”

the psychic damage of being online and aware this morning is staggering

I didn't say all men. I never have said all men.

You're making it personal. Let that go. No one is talking about you personally.

When black people say, "white people are the devil" I know exactly what they mean. I don't make it about me. To do so would be a selfish act. Put women in the center of this discussion instead of yourself.

Happens all the time? I don't know where you're at but I have never, in the places I've lived and visited, have seen men defend women "all the time". I have seen them observe, often look away nearly all the time.

Let's be careful. I'm not here to make you an @$$hole, I'm here to bring awareness

A man rushing up to another man who grabs a woman. "Get your f**king hands off her". Women "denied" abortions. *ringring* "Senator, men have no right to dictate what women do w/their bodies. F off."

THESE are the men we need; the men we celebrate.

We're a good team. We just need more people on it.

You're way too focused on circumstantial examples than the point I'm making: men in general do not do anything to help women who are suffering in a world that hates them.

I have seen men speak up, but the percentage is very small. I am more likely to see women speak up, and that's not a lot either

Read our being exasperated with men putting the #notallmen card down and walking away. You don't do that? Great. But most do. They don't understand the points I already made: they need to help with the problem, not just claim they don't contribute to it. They contribute because they check out.

stalked, threatened, raped, and murdered. Not to mention economic disenfranchisement & State-owned uteruses. Aw, shucks, kid. Chin up.

If you're Not One Of Them, don't read women's "fury" as personal, in the same way I don't read black people's fury toward white people as personal. I share it.

"You sent to or three mini-hostile response"

This is a "I'm going to make it about me" response I'm talking about.

I'm not being hostile to you. I said twice that this isn't personal, which is a lot more than most women who read men talk about how nice they are and how sorry they are we're getting

Men ignore it....and so women are constantly faced with managing this all the time, almost always without the help of even one man.

LOTS of sympathy from the #notallmen camp, but no real action.

to f**k off or he'll get his @$$ beat, instead of me having to tell the guy I'll beat his @$$ by myself and risk having the guy follow me off and trying to rape or murder me.

Men will generally not back down when a women tells him to stop but they will when other men do.

What is "participating"? Is it "I am not like these men. I am different! I respect women!" That's not the participation, that's actually the opposite of participation.

If a man is harassing me on the subway I want the 5 men around me to be paying attention and to swiftly, fiercely tell that man

You have a point. This is a problem.

But this is not applicable here, and to say so would be dismissive of the larger problem, for the reasons I just explained in another reply to you.

When I start witnessing men as a part of this intervention then I will believe it when they tell me they "respect" women. You all have to that "respect" into action, otherwise it's just a pat on the back.

If all the non-racist or non-sexist people proclaim "Hey, I don't believe/do this! I'm your friend!" and go back to their happy corner nothing is accomplished. Racists and misogynists won't fix themselves. They need intervention. Firm, uncompromising intervention.

In that moment, the white person is making it about them. They want to assert they are not the problem, distance themselves from it, self-soothe.

Like white people, men have a responsibility to confront the problem instead of just saying it's not their fault. Why?

Again, I don't want you to read it as a personal attack. But men like to come into discussions about systemic misogyny and make a point of telling us they're the Nice Guys.

Imagine another group, like black people, talking about systemic racism and a white person comes in and says "I'm not racist!"

Another reason to leave social media

Some may be but not all. Some are posting a lot of Leftist points but the accounts look like bots.

This website is made using AI. I'm sure surveillance is as good as built in.

Math:

AI website + surveillance + weird accounts mass naming Leftists + planned Eff/Bee/Eye "Pre/-/Cri/me" office = Watch out, everyone

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Anyone notice there are several faceless, nameless accounts that sure make an awful lots of public lists of Leftists?

I'd place my bets on this not being a good thing.

Also, f*ck the New York Times

I have noticed accounts here that look like bots like you might see on Twitter/X but here are "Blue" or "Left".

I suspect that as they position themselves for this "pre-crime" office they're seeking funding for, this is a Trojan horse approach to nab people they want to label "domestic terrorists".

I love how he signs his tweets. Because we weren't sure who wrote them, both because of the name at the top and because what he writes is so very, very on brand.

That "nobody" is *us*. We're just so used to being talked to, treated like "nobody" we forget we're more somebody than the actual nobodies who have relentlessly mentally abused us into believing we have no power against them.

The sum total of our power could change the world in an instant.

If you don't help dismantle the system that abuses women then you are an accomplice.

Next time you, or anyone else, sees a woman being harassed, bullied, abused...say something. Get other men to help, if you're afraid. But stop leaving it to women to figure out.

I have spoken up for women -- and even some men! -- when they're being harassed by men. Meanwhile, the men around me? Silent.

I have learned that men are generally cowards. But they love to tell us how they support us, how they're "different" than Those Other Men.

This is nothing personal but I'm pretty tired of hearing men tell us how they're #notallmen.

Telling us you're "absolutely safe" is actually useless. It doesn't do anything tangible to support women.

What we need is more "safe" to confront the "unsafe" men. Hold them accountable.

Sorry, Mistress - Unfollow!