Personally I find charms on both sides, smooching-wise. 😜

I actually had someone tell me I should get a Brazilian. We weren’t together long after that, but we split up after I told him I’d get one the day after he got one.

The language may be respectful, but the act of commenting in a space that has clear rules against their commenting entirely is not respectful. Which is a problem I’ve seen in male-inclusive women’s social circles before (as in pre-Internet). Men think their voices must be heard, even if they’re ostensibly “allies”.

If this were my first rodeo maybe I’d be thinking of reasons for them. It’s not, however. It’s like my seventeenth.

Personally I like most of the men in my life. Sure, yes, I have to be wary at times (because “most” doesn’t mean “all”), but overall men are just fine, on average. So I would likely select a mixed block over a women only block. I’d just make sure the doors are solid and the locks work well.

But I’m not all women and I can see rather unfortunately sizable sets of women who would far rather live in a block where there’s only other women around them. And there’s enough diversity in the world that we should be able to accommodate those with that need or desire.

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Stationery.

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Depending on my mood anywhere from 3 to 7.

There are, to my knowledge, two pictures of me on the Internet. Total. Both are at least two decades out of date. I haven’t used my real name in any online context (I started with Fidonet) since the '80s. And while I do leak some information about my whereabouts, good luck finding me in a city that’s bigger than the USA’s top city (and is yet only about #10 in China…).

And why the secrecy?

Well, the time I got a phone call at 2AM from a guy in the USA who was absolutely dead-set on “domming” me in an online RPG game, wanting to take it RL kind of informed me I need to be super-careful about any identifiable information.

He’s telling the PRESIDENT OF SIGNAL what Signal is “really doing”.

That’s mansplaining, full-on.

That is BRILLIANT!

And so much for getting clues to what’s happening from the locals! Or selling your loot!

I’ve had boyfriends shocked when they found out, during the course of getting intimate, that I actually do carry a knife with me at all times. They’re such sheltered little dears, aren’t they, able to go through life without worrying if that man over there is going to be the one who assaults you or worse because you “wore the wrong clothes” or “said the wrong thing” or even just “looked at him with the wrong expression”?

How we might want our own spaces to talk without their input. Not that they would do that in a group that’s clearly labeled “Women only…”

My boss tried to get us to use the commercial ChatGPT account he got for the business, but within two months everybody stopped using it.

He didn’t try to mandate it, but he did encourage us to try it. In the end it was just more work than doing what we needed to do ourselves without its “assistance”.

NGL, this comment under the video is 🔥!

It’s less dangerous to be lost in the woods with no help at all than it is to be in a club with a man upset you’d choose the bear.

I’ve seen them. Black, grizzly and polar.

They’re gorgeous animals, but … I prefer seeing them from a distance, thank you very much. 😜

So that’s what causes sagging!

Another piece of hilarity for me. “I know I shouldn’t be doing this here, but I’m going to do this. Here.”

And then they wonder why we have such a poor opinion of them.

Mansplaining is generally when the man is incorrect while explaining something to a woman that she’s the expert in, yes. Like telling a woman “you obviously need to read McCarty et al” when she is McCarty et al (to cite a famous example).

That’s the best you can bring to the table, techfanboidude?

Weaksauce.

Beef up your game.

Wouldn’t he need to have reason to believe (say, by being told she’s Signal’s president) that she knows for certain before this makes sense? A “no” wouldn’t convince anyone without that crucial bit of context I think, setting aside the insufferability of this guy.

Or he could just, you know, hover the mouse over the icon, or perhaps even CLICK on the profile: https://bsky.app/profile/meredithmeredith.bsky.social