Not every men’s group is a shitty stereotype. It does seem unacceptably common, though. Not every women’s group is a safe space, and some are just as toxic and abusive as the far-too-common men’s groups. Do we ban them? I don’t think we can. Because women’s shelters need to exist even if men are domestically abused too and never in my fucking life have I heard anyone suggest a battered men’s shelter might even maybe be a good idea. Okay, fine, so violence and safety reasons … Except, shit, not everyone is hetero… A same sex partner can probably find out where women’s shelters are. And men are abused to by their partners, men and women, in alarmingly higher rates than anybody seems to take note of. And what do you do with Trans folks? Because their rights are human rights too and why the fuck do we still need to explicitly say that anymore? sigh

And that doesn’t even begin to cover social groups.

I guess if you’re not an asshole, a bigot, an abuser, or whatever … best you can do when you encounter these things (and you will) is ask yourself whether something gendered is reasonable or not. The answer might be yes, or no, or conflicted either way. I’d like to say that it should be okay if we don’t agree about the answers. I’d like to say that people should be able to accept that the other person is making a good faith effort to determine the relative “okayness” in an individual case with an individual perspective. Sadly, we humans seem not to be wired to do that. I’m just gonna continue thinking gendered stuff is pretty dumb on the whole with a couple of conflicted views on a couple of specific things because I know I don’t live in a perfect world.

People seem to love it. But it’s highly proprietary and there seems to be planned obsolescence built into their model

No, it pretty surely is that he is a pedophile … he said so himself. It was recorded and he knew it was recorded. The fact that this was news in a lot of the country but not on any Republican-serving media source is testament to the lengths they went to in order to protect a disgusting human being.

What’s really sick is that a bunch of Americans would’ve voted for him if they knew. Probably not enough to win an election even against Hillary Clinton who acted like the presidency was owed to her without campaigning, but enough to illustrate a problem in this country both with where people get their “facts” and how few care what the facts are.

I see what you did there.

Funny, he never gave me any orders. I used to take my orders from a chicken named Jack, but these days they come from the frogs. Because they are too strong when they’re together, y’know.

I came here to upvote this comment and chew bubblegum…

I’ve got a Dell Latitude 7200 2-in-1 that’s basically a Surface clone and it runs Mobian Plasma Mobile fine with basically large print settings (legally blind). Gnome/phosh didn’t fare so well, but I’m hardly someone you’d call a Gnome fan anyway. I tried it, and it’s a little more polished but also more “opinionated” in the wrong ways.

Biggest complaints about Mobian Plasma Mobile on this thing are:

1. I want an encrypted drive. You can make it happen, but you’d better be able to connect a keyboard to type a password or do something else in no-man’s-land. It’s just not a supported thing.
2. I really wish I had something more like Heliboard on this thing. Touch keyboard is sub-optimal.
3. QConsole feels … limited.

There are a few specific app glitches. Signal doesn’t behave the way I’d like it to for example.

Otherwise this is a great mobile tablet. It’s like an iPad with a keyboard cover, though it’s meant to be in landscape mode, though rotation works great. The keyboard can be left behind almost everywhere. The pen works well and magnets anywhere. The tablet’s got a SIM slot, but I’m not using it, and though it had WiFi 5 when I got it, I upgraded that and the SSD. There was a little fussiness with the trackpad on the keyboard cover, but I fixed it.

I got this thing to be an eReader mostly.