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1. Socialist Unity in the form of mutual respect and good faith interactions is enforced here
Try to keep an open mind, other schools of thought may offer points of view and analyses you haven't considered yet. Also: This is not a place for the Idealism vs. Materialism or rather Anarchism vs. Marxism debate(s), for that please visit c/AnarchismVsMarxism.
2. Anti-Imperialism means recognizing capitalist states like Russia and China as such
That means condemning (their) imperialism, even if it is of the "anti-USA" flavor.
3. No liberalism, (right-wing) revisionism or reactionaries.
That includes so called: Social Democracy, Democratic Socialism, Dengism, Market Socialism, Patriotic Socialism, National Bolshevism, Anarcho-Capitalism etc. . Anti-Socialist people and content have no place here, as well as the variety of "Marxist"-"Leninists" seen on lemmygrad and more specifically GenZedong (actual ML's are welcome as long as they agree to the rules and don't just copy paste/larp about stuff from a hundred years ago).
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The only dangerous minority is the rich.
5. Don't demonize previous and current socialist experiments or (leading) individuals.
We must constructively learn from their mistakes, while acknowledging their achievements and recognizing when they have strayed away from socialist principles.
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Notable achievements in all spheres of society were made by various socialist/people's/democratic republics around the world. Mistakes, however, were made as well: bureaucratic castes of parasitic elites - as well as reactionary cults of personality - were established, many things were mismanaged and prejudice and bigotry sometimes replaced internationalism and progressiveness.
4 panel comic of two people holding drinks, talking
1
Blue: You wear too much makeup.
Pink: You consume too much oxygen
2
Blue: It's just my opinion, you'd look better withou-
Pink: So would you. Without oxygen
3
Pink applies lipstick
4
Pink: Fuck your opinions.
I have to admit there's a dimension to this I don't get. I absolutely agree that whatever makeup you choose to apply is your business and no one else's. But every single woman in my life, from my mother, to girlfriends, cousins, platonic friends, and my wife has expressed their opinion to me (often disapprovingly) at one time or another about my decisions with regard to my clothing, facial hair, regular hair, etc. I feel very sure this is an experience many other men have also had. It annoys me, but I don't see it as an issue in my life.
What makes this any different?
Mothers telling their sons how to dress should not factor into how equals talk to each other.
Most of the phenomenon you describe that I've seen came from teenagers. My wife is an emotionally aware 30-something, so she knows better.
Also, if you straight-up look like a slob, that's not gender-specific like the comic. Comic guy has never been a woman, doesn't know why comic gal wears makeup, and yet he feels like his opinion should matter (it shouldn't).
What makes this any different?
Systemic oppression
Alright - that's 100% a reasonable and true answer. Thanks! :-)
What makes this any different?
Other than the fact that you seem to have amassed quite an impressively above-average number of hypercontrolling women in your life?
Eh, I'm in my 50s, it's not like I had all these experiences in six months. :-)
Oh, ok.
So, see, in that case, the difference is, all that happened over 50 years or so for you.
For a lot of women, all that happens before lunch.
Thanks, I'd already received a less snarky sounding answer though.
Good, I'm glad to see that there are still people who are patient with the clearly bad-faith troll-baiting posts of other people.
Yes, my post history screams bad-faith troll-baiting. I've no idea how I pissed in your cheerios, but really I thought this sort of thing was being mostly left behind at reddit.
We need a witchesVSpatriachy community here as well
Absolutely, I've been seeing so much casual sexism on here. Maybe it has something to do with the aging techie demographic sites like this naturally attract, I see it in the programmer communities a lot
What's the joke here?
The guy's a loser? Ha ha?
That's the thing the "It's just my opinion man" crowd hasn't gotten yet (with a few exceptions): If you are allowed to speak out whatever "opinion" crosses the two braincells in your skull when they aren't occupied with keeping you from falling over, so is everyone else.
This is literally the plot of every Disney movie lately. Just as entertaining too.
And than if you don't wear make up you are told you would look better if you tried a little make make up. Damed if you do, damed if you don't.
I donβt like how women are constantly depicted as shorter than men in all media.
Ok, but what if the guy respects the women and her decisions. What if he has seen her without makeup, and thinks that she is beautiful either way. How would one tell a woman that, without it being oppressive? I genuinely want to know, as I don't see that as being evil. Please tell me if I'm wrong on that.
The following answers are for talking to your partner. Adjust for friend/date/acquaintance.
You just tell her she's gorgeous. No need to make a comparison.
If she asks if she looks better with or without, tell her that you know when she has makeup on, it means she put in effort, and effort is sexy (that is true, and it doesn't contradict your opinion, and it's a compliment).
Also, you can't go wrong with picking whichever aspect of the makeup looks best and telling her she nailed it.