MystikIncarnate

Is this a representation of self?

.... I mean, is this me?

Why not both?

The problem with transit for rural areas is that you're covering such a small number of people over such a large area that it costs more to run the service than it could possibly ever hope to earn as a service. So it would always be operating at a loss. That's unacceptable under capitalism.

For any major city or Metro area, yes, public transit should be given the highest priority, and it should primarily be run using renewable energy sources. Not only would renewable energy generally be less costly for daily operations, but it would reduce the climate impact of the service.

The problem with bike lanes in most North American areas is that it's an afterthought. So your only viable option is to pull from whatever is there to build the bike lanes, usually causing the bike lanes to run in-line with vehicular traffic, and that's usually not ideal for anyone. Even with good boundaries between bikes and other road users, there's always the chance that a 2 tonne truck barrels through whatever boundary is there and flattens someone using the bike lane. That's not really a risk if you planned for cycling infrastructure as part of the original design of a city, where you can fully separate road users and cyclists.

I recognize that roads are still needed, for deliveries and commercial purposes, but almost everyone else can take transit or ride a bike.

In rural areas, not so much.

Oh.... Oh no.

Oh, that was the cognitive decline I mentioned. That and not feeling tired (without needing to take meth) is the super power....

Not having to sleep. You can just be awake 24/7 without the usual cognitive decline or feelings of being tired.

One time, I was walking down the street with my brother and a junebug flew right into the side of my neck. My instinctual reaction to this was to freak the fuck out, flail my arms and jump about a meter to the side away from where I was hit.

.... That all happened in about 0.087 seconds.

Yes, I jumped sideways.

If we're truly on the worst timeline, and the multiverse exists, I can take comfort in the fact that there's a version of me somewhere in the multiverse that's actually doing well...

I drive, and I disagree with the quoted post about not removing driving lanes.

I live in a fairly rural area, we have no bike lanes, and everything is too far away for it to be practical to get there by any other method than to drive. Though, I used to live in a major metro, and I drove when I was there too, mainly out of convenience.

As someone who travels primarily by driving, I want to see more bike lanes. Not for my benefit or convenience, but for the safety of those that travel by bike. I've seen the close calls that some cyclists experience daily, and it's unacceptable. The current set of drivers includes a nontrivial number of folks who have no regard for cyclists and their safety. The courts have proven time, and time again that they will not uphold laws meant to protect cyclists. So the only path forward to preserve life and limb for those that use a bicycle to travel, is dedicated lanes.

Having bike lanes put in without affecting the number of driving lanes is ideal but when that is not an option, then reducing driving lanes to create bike lanes is necessary.

I'm fucking tired of all these fucks thinking that more lanes somehow makes traffic flow better. It really doesn't. It can help when people are turning or something, but so can dedicated turning lanes. At worst, you'll have to wait for someone to turn and though that's an inconvenience, it's hardly a problem. In any case, fuck these fucking fucks and their metal boxes burning prehistoric forests.

You won't find disagreement here.

The fact of the matter is that the change won't happen overnight; and there's already a disproportional number of assaults against women, even if they're fully dressed when the assault begins.

While the argument of "she was asking for it" relating to what someone is wearing, is entirely bullshit and without any merit, and the fact that it's on the male culture to... Idk, not be rapists, and not encourage rapists and rapist tenancies; I know plenty of women that don't want to risk encouraging such behavior against themselves. Whether they should need to or not isn't material to the point. They don't feel safe otherwise.

I'm not going to tell anyone what to wear. I will say that maybe people just shouldn't rape other people, regardless of circumstances. No, not maybe. They definitely should not, under any circumstances, ever rape anyone. Just don't rape people.

Anyways. It would be a long road to get to the place you propose, and a lot of violence would likely happen before we would see the ideal that you are describing. I wish it was different, but I can't change the world, I can only change myself.

Genuine answer: I'm specifically speaking to how men and women are treated as a matter of law.

Laws should not differentiate between men, women, sexual orientation or identity, sexual preferences, kinks, lifestyles, etc.

If a thing is illegal, it should be illegal for everyone, or noone. In this case, the law says that it is legal to go topless unless you are a woman. It specifically cites, as a rule of law, that women are to be treated differently on purpose. That, by definition, is sexist.

Almost all of the other examples you provided are matters of social norms, comforts, and tropes. Nothing else you mentioned has the same weight as the rule of law.

Women have different clothing and different clothing styles than men, they're shaped differently so we make clothes that fit the female form better, just like we have clothes that fit the male form better.

Different washrooms, I disagree with; we should have gender neutral bathrooms and put all this transphobia bullshit about what bathroom people use, to bed. Bluntly: the bathroom isn't a social gathering, people generally are not walking around unclothed or partially clothed in the common areas of even a gendered bathroom. You go in there to resolve your bodily needs to expel waste. Get in, do what you need to do, and get out. With a little more effort in isolating stalls, an ungendered bathroom is the best option. You don't have a "men's" and "women's" bathroom at home... They don't pointlessly gender bathrooms in planes or busses, among many other places, so making bathrooms that are meant for larger groups in public spaces, gendered, does not really logically make any sense at all.

There's a ton more I could say about this or many other things but simply: I feel like I've addressed your question.

Let me know if you need any further clarifications.

Aah yes. Because declining someone's mortgage application = literal murder.

/s

Yeah. That seems sexist.

Free the nipple.