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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the exact meaning of a misogynist person?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or how about, rather than your narrow, specific 3 definitions, a fourth thing, such as how it’s phrased in the wiki:

  Misogyny is hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women or girls. It is a form of sexism that can keep women at a lower social status than men.

  The emphasis there is why you’re being called names on the internet. If you’re advocating systems or societal norms of gender oppression, you’re being misogynist. This remains true even if you’re not doing it intentionally.

  The world we live in is deeply patriarchal, so it can be hard to see these problems, because the views and opinions you’ve got are just “normal”. Something being the norm doesn’t mean it isn’t oppressive, and having an opinion doesn’t mean you shouldn’t consider the impacts of that opinion.

  Generally, if someone calls you a misogynist, and you go “bUt I rEsPeCt wOmEn”, you might want to take a little time to figure out where it’s coming from. It can certainly be real without fitting in your 3 tidy little self-serving definitions.

  I’ll also point out that you can replace nearly every instance of misogyny in this thread with racism, and replace women with black, and it would be the same discussion. Or you could swap misogyny/women with misandry/men. Oppression is oppression, no matter who holds the power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to tell a girl "I love You" without telling her "I love you".....⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US, what happens if you sustain a life threatening injury and you don't have insurance?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hospitals haven’t been non profit since they were delayed in the early 1980s, and are absolutely structured for profit, with shareholders and conglomerate ownership and everything.

  The medical write offs are exactly that. Tax avoidance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨where do the instances actually reside?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There are no “the Lemmy servers”, since there is no central “Lemmy” central organization to host and run such servers.

  So yeah, you can run it on whatever you can find that has available disk space, CPU cycles, and an Internet connection. Hosted VPS, colocated hardware server, raspberry pi, your gaming rig, AWS containers, whatever.