CandleTiger

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[–] CandleTiger 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Preach on.

I went to the Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, NY, and of all the things that really struck me hard there (it was a lot) I think the biggest hit was realizing how fucking long it took between the start of mainstreaming the movement and women actually getting the vote. None of the women who started that movement lived long enough to cast their own vote.

There was no "women's black panthers". There was no threat of violence if women can't control their own lives. Everybody got to pretty much just stay comfortable with their nice order. And change did. not. happen. For years.

Maybe the slow pace was worth it, I don't know. I'm not a woman and I'm not much devoted to order. But it seems pretty clear that "avoid offending anybody" is not an effective tool for change.

[–] CandleTiger 5 points 1 week ago

Having your kids watch you lose your dignity is not going to make a good relationship.

They are very attuned to that sort of thing. If they watch one parent allow and invite the other to trample on them the kids will also lose respect.

[–] CandleTiger 5 points 1 week ago

I bought a shirt once in Pittsburgh that says, “Yinz is a gender-neutral p pronoun”

[–] CandleTiger 3 points 1 week ago

Makes me think we’re getting to a point where cars will stop working in high-noise environments and troublemakers can set up car jammers to block cars from driving in an area

[–] CandleTiger 1 points 1 week ago

How do they know what it should cost?

[–] CandleTiger 3 points 1 week ago

Installing HVAC ducts in blistering hot attics is backbreaking work but people can be found to do that.

I wonder what those people get paid, and whether they have access to bathroom breaks, clean drinking water on the job, and a decent place to sleep at night?

[–] CandleTiger 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Maybe if they increased the wages or improved the working conditions, people would come do the work after all?

Just spitballing, here….

[–] CandleTiger 4 points 1 week ago

Das gäbe ich als „party pooper” was ja ganz nah dran ist aber nicht gleich.

[–] CandleTiger 1 points 1 week ago

Ok, uhhhh… you are saying here that difficulty understanding the words to music is an autism thing?

[–] CandleTiger 4 points 1 week ago

Thank you, this is useful advice

 

I find after this election that I have an unexpectedly pressing need to wave large obnoxious flags from my sensible fuel-efficient subcompact while I drive.

Has anybody got models, templates, suggestions for how to mount a stout pole to a hatchback? I’m thinking of some kind of tube on a short arm that I could close the rear passenger door or the cargo door on to hold it in place.

[–] CandleTiger 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

(Not a woman): my partner does not like receiving oral sex or other kinds of sex where she is mostly passive/receiving, because she doesn’t like feeling put on the spot and obligated to react.

If your partner has been not getting much from sex for a long time now, then she is also probably feeling a lot of pressure to change and behave right and react as expected which would be not pleasant for her.

Maybe ask her if she wants to play a game where she reads a book out loud (sexy book or bit sexy book) or play a cozy video game or some other activity where you get to enjoy yourself playing with her body for potentially a long time, and she has something else to pay attention to besides her own sexual performance? That would probably also go well with deep toys on low power as well.

Just, maybe avoid Call of Duty for this one. It has to be a lazy activity she’s doing. If her attention is successfully diverted 100% to the point the sex is an irritating distraction then that’s not any fun for anybody

 

I have some little black ants in my motorhome. I’m pretty sure I picked them up at my last stop in upstate New York but I’ve since driven far away from there. Wikipedia says little black ants nest in the soil so presumably I didn’t take their queen with me.

What’s going to happen to this group that hitched a ride? Are they likely to elect a new queen and go looking for a good nesting spot, or curl up and die, or what?

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