LadyLikesSpiders

Yeah, I mean you're absolutely right. There is a male default assumption we tend to have. Maybe it's a quirk of language, but I think it's certainly more cultural. Our preconceived notions of "person in internet" is masculine, even though women use the internet just as much and make up half the population. The only time it's not the case is when you're in places that are exclusively for women, or in places where the hobby is so dominantly feminine

For simple shit like this, I don't think it's particularly harmful or malicious. We invent a person we're talking to online, and the more often invented person is a man. It's more a symptom of the greater culture at large, and effectively just a part of our language. We have "they" but I think there's also a gender-neutral "he" that we just don't recognize that arose from the male-as-default idea. Intentionally misgendering, on the other hand, is 100% a shitty thing to do, but that's an argument on a different topic anyway

My own username explicitly alludes to my gender and I still get called a man about half the time. I don't really care or anything, but I think it's funny

The manosphere is so sad. I sorta hate how fascinated I am by it, and it seems like it is so incredibly easy for men to get sucked into it. I've seen guy friends go down that path, and I never would have predicted it. I've heard from other guy friends who crawled out of it that I never would have even expected it

Sorry you went through that, but better seeing that shit sooner rather than later. I really don't know how anyone can think "I bet if I told them they were just naturally dumber than me, they'd think it was hot." Clearly men are not all that logical if they keep falling for manosphere bullshit XD

You know your worth, so you just keep chugging along. Having no man is better than having a bad man

select mates

Where are you picking up that kind of lingo for human interactions, friend? Maybe it's just a quirk of yours, but I only ever see this kind of language from incels and incel circles, and it's not just the "mate" line, but the whole of your post

So I'll opine. You're seeing something that's confirming to a preconceived notion. Not gonna say there are no women who don't like their bad boys or actually toxic people--god knows I know some of those women--but it is hardly the standard, and your anecdotal accounts mean you're subject to things like social class and circles, culture, and region. Besides that, it could still be plainly untrue what you see, but its possible you are only even registering the women who fit this idea. There could be 20 women in happy, healthy relationships, but you're not thinking about them. You're only considering the woman in a toxic relationship, and when you try and recall the dynamics you know, only thos come to mind

This is fairly common mindset for incels, red-pillers, that whole group. They'll talk about how easy it is for women to have sex, but it's because their idea of women is already "something to have sex in", so they're not open to the idea that there are plenty of women who do struggle with dating

And besides that, who are you to judge the men they're with? You say they'll avoid 10 awesome dudes for [cavalcade of generic reactionary insults], but are those 10 dudes really awesome? You're not dating them, nor do you have a woman's lived experience to watch out for certain yellow or red flags that those men may clearly be displaying. Alternatively, maybe what makes an awesome dude to you is not actually what makes them awesome to women. Maybe the guys you're calling bad boys aren't as bad as you think, is what I'm saying

Or yeah, maybe you've just seen and know a bunch of women who have made some poor choices. For whatever reason, it does happen, after all. Women are not immune to subscribing to ideas of toxic masculinity, and we can be vicious about it. We shouldn't, but we can

Juts try and make sure that whatever spaces you're occupying, especially the kind you're picking up that incel jargon from, you think critically about what they're saying. It is so incredibly easy to get sucked into the manosphere

Both are the right target. Sony has 0 problem with this. They're not some victim in this only working with this model of digital distribution because they were strong-armed. Sony doesn't really give a shit that we don't own the things we buy

Thanks for that trip down memory lane. I was just a child when I saw that, and my first thought was "but... But when I steal from someone, they don't have it anymore. If I download it, they still have it"

This is a colossal list

If they delete a users ability to use something they paid for, you can still absolutely blame Sony, unless it comes with a refund

Aside from panic at what the fuck just happened, walk to the bedroom, and grab some new clothes

As someone who works the later shifts, it took me a while to figure out what was wrong with "afternoon". It's been so long since someone has said good morning to me at work

At this rate, it's gonna release after Bloodborne 2 comes out on PC, or maybe even after Metroid Prime 4

Unfortunately I think the reality is that as long as people are tipping well, there is little motivation on any party (except the customer) to rework compensation in the food service industry

The people who actually have the power to change this are the companies, as businesses in the US at least have a disproportionate buying power of democracy. Unless what you do hurts a business' bottom line, it won't rework any system. You either have to adjust the politics so that businesses have less sway, or you just end up making sure someone who's already not getting paid enough gets paid even less. The company has no incentive to pay them more. A living wage has to be legislated