dandelion
@dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
was going to say, the invasion of Mexico (like 1848 or so) was naked greed and caused some countries to doubt the U.S. was serious about its supposed founding ideals, lol
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Unsolicited advice, but you have to escape your
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\basically says “ignore the special syntax meaning of-as starting a bulleted list, and instead treat it as a literal-”. - Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
leaded gasoline was fun, huh?
- Comment on What TV cancellation are you most upset by? 1 week ago:
ha, I forgot about this show - I remember it being well made
- Comment on What TV cancellation are you most upset by? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Help 1 week ago:
yes, feels like the pic is only meant to situate, like “I’m here in this situation”
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Even if a majority if indigenous folks didn’t mind the label, it’s still a label born of ignorance. It’s not like it becomes just OK because the surviving oppressed minority incorrectly labelled that way by the colonists are OK with it.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
yeah, I’m not really doubting OP’s intentions, I’m just trying to clue them in to how others might see their post so they aren’t surprised if it gets flagged
I think race issues were apparent to me as a young child, but it took the form of feeling insecure and unsure how to interact with racial minority peers of mine in school and so on, not wanting to make them feel uncomfortable but feeling fragile around them and thus accidentally introducing stigma. It was an awful feeling, and something that just didn’t happen with other students.
- Comment on Anon sees a happy couple 5 weeks ago:
I think there is so much you can do for how you look - skin care, hydration, diet, exercise, etc. can radically change the way a person looks - but I tend to agree that personality matters much more. My point is that most people seem to get lost trying to make themselves physically attractive, and incel culture like looksmaxxing seem to fall into that logic as well, but they miss that the bar is lower than they expect. And of course, your point is missed by this community as well - that looks are even less important overall than how you hold yourself and interact, etc. - the mental stuff is the most important. Luckily good diet, hydration, and exercise help with that too!
- Comment on I accidentally recreated Daria from the episode „Road Worrier“ in Stardew Valley 5 weeks ago:
oops
- Comment on Anon sees a happy couple 5 weeks ago:
also it’s probably more important to not be too unattractive - people are focusing too much on the ceiling but they need to focus on the floor
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Just a warning, your question might be interpreted as violating rule 5:
Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.
That said, I don’t see why cringing about racism is controversial, if anything it’s the majority view that racism is bad.
If you are genuinely interested in learning about where racism comes from, feel free to read: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism
Aristotle for example argued that non-Greek slaves innately lacked a will and thus depended on their Greek masters as rulers the way children depend on their parents (he made similar arguments justifying the supremacy of men over women). These views have a long history, and it’s worth learning about. You might start with the culture you are in (not sure if you’re from the U.S. or not) and read a few academic primers about race and the history of race in your culture.
You might also wonder what race is, and for philosophical questions about race I would start here: plato.stanford.edu/entries/race/
- Comment on Mickey 17 is an absurdist, anti-capitalist, Trump-mocking masterpiece – review 1 month ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_17
- first released at a Berlin film festival yesterday (Feb 15, 2025)
- slated to release in South Korea on Feb. 28th
- slated to release in the U.S. on March 7th
- Comment on Childhood in the 80s 2 months ago:
I can smell this meme, and I don’t like it 🤢
- Comment on Just sucking some milk out of the strawsage 2 months ago:
can’t wait for congress to ban whole milk because it has trans fats
- Comment on Just sucking some milk out of the strawsage 2 months ago:
you know whatever lubricants they put on the drill-bit is not safe for consumption, that hotdog is contaminated now
- Comment on Do you want me to heat that up in the "Michael Wave"? 2 months ago:
just get it out of my sight
- Comment on Just sucking some milk out of the strawsage 2 months ago:
omg 🥵
- Comment on Just sucking some milk out of the strawsage 2 months ago:
men, is it gay to suck milk through a hotdog hole?
- Comment on I never realized this 2 months ago:
huh, that sounds like a rationalization, a way to find a problem with a critique that sounds more defensible or reasonable than defending patriarchy
- Comment on I never realized this 2 months ago:
my instance doesn’t show downvotes, so all I see is that you have lots of upvotes 😊
I suspect downvotes would come from people who disagree that marriage is patriarchal, tbh - I think a lot of people don’t really understand patriarchy or feminism, so they might thing you are being hyperbolic, like claiming marriage is akin to beating your wife or something.
Or they could just be responding merely to the language and not even the content, i.e. by talking about patriarchy at all or posing it in social terms they might think you have been duped by woke propaganda.
- Comment on I never realized this 2 months ago:
yes, though I think a naming system like this isn’t an individual act as much as occurs on the level of social norms and rules; a single individual won’t introduce a competing matrilineal naming system just by convincing her children into it…
Either way, I somewhat agree with the criticism of the joke that the last name coming from a patrilineal origin isn’t a gotcha, though maybe that’s actually the point of the meme since Homelander is the one posing it as a gotcha (and he’s a villain, so it would make sense to symbolize a misogynist with him). The name would still be inherited in a matrilineal way even if it started as a patrilineal name further up the chain.
I guess there is a question of whether the name’s origin matters at all when we are concerned with the patriarchial nature of a practice where women lose their family names and men don’t. That practice being disrupted is what matters, not what the actual name is.
- Comment on Beautiful stories like this just make you smile 2 months ago:
sounds like the shitposting is working to me
- Comment on I never realized this 2 months ago:
it is a pain in the ass, a burden that is put on the woman
- Comment on I never realized this 2 months ago:
is that an unpopular opinion, or just a well-known fact?
- Comment on I never realized this 2 months ago:
I assume they did mean “maiden name”, how else does the joke make sense? The mom’s maiden name is maternal grandfather’s last name …
- Comment on I never realized this 2 months ago:
I think the point of the joke might be more that an attempt to start a matrilineal naming scheme is foiled somewhat from the fact that the maiden name of the mother is derived from her father, i.e. you can’t escape that the last names all come from patrilineal sources for generations.
- Comment on I don't need you. I don't need any of you. I just need my fridge cozy. 2 months ago:
love that floral pattern!
- Comment on Hurry 2 months ago:
- Comment on Interesting analogy 3 months ago:
right, but since representing Jewish people as lizards is an anti-Semitic trope, representing Zionists as lizards is an obvious blunder if it wasn’t an intentionally trying to be anti-Semitic
