Comment on Women in Iceland including the prime minister go on strike for equal pay and an end to violence

• CaptPretentious@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I really don’t feel like attention/awareness is the problem. People are very aware of various problems plaquing the world… I personally don’t need more awareness, what I want to see is actionable items.

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  • Zorque@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    People don't create actionable items unless they're confronted with the idea that they need to make them.

    Many people, like yourself, are waiting for something "actionable" before they do anything. The problem is, everyone is waiting for someone else to do something and thus doing nothing themselves. That's where visibility comes in. Clearly not enough is being done, so people need to get off their ass and do something, instead of waiting for someone else to do it for them.

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    • CaptPretentious@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Many people, like yourself, are waiting for something “actionable” before they do anything.

      What do you mean by that. Firstly, you don’t know me at all. Second, do you know what an actionable item is? Literally, what do you want ‘people like myself’ today, right now to do that is just going to fix everything? I’ll stand for ‘people like me’ and say, we’re ready to ‘get off our ass and do something’, but what EXACTLY is that going to be? If you’re going to get on your soap box and tell me and ‘people like me’ off, have a plan.

      Because as far as I see, you’re just grand standing.

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  • krashmo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah awareness is definitely needed for some issues but violence against women doesn’t seem like one of those issues. I’m pretty confident everyone is aware of it and no one is a fan except for the people doing it. I don’t think those kinds of people will care about a strike. If anything I’m guessing a woman in an abusive relationship is more likely to experience violence by participating in this than not.

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• rengoku2@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If even PM herself can’t do shit, then nobody will do shit.

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