Yeah because women don't game. /s

Girl boring guy quirky.

Getting a quality education or having parents who did is a privilege. No baby was born knowing how to vote. The vast majority of non-voters don't even know how to start, let alone how to take time off to vote or when their mail-in ballot window is. Many might not have the required IDs and need to jump through another hoop to vote.

To non-voters, the voting process can be as daunting as getting your driver's license the first time, except they're doing it alone, juggling 3 jobs and raising kids. They simply don't have the time or mental energy to go through bureaucracy and mentally keeping every deadline and paperwork in their minds.

Civic literacy is a privilege because the fact that you understand the importance of voting and know enough about the process to plan ahead of it means that you grew up in circumstances that allowed you to do so.

Calling people lazy for not voting is like calling people assholes for not buying cage-free eggs. t's very easy to not give a shit about either when you're living paycheck to paycheck, and it's very easy to perceive complaints about this as virtue signalling.

You're not getting anyone to vote by calling them lazy. Don't be angry. Be useful and be actionable. If you actually want more people to vote, understand the systemic barriers behind why so many don't vote, educate others on it, and make a difference.

Men who upvote this will complain about male beauty standards one breath and then body shame men in another.

It's really easy to blame non-voters when you have the privilege of civic literacy, do not face voter disenfranchisement, do not live paycheck to paycheck, do not have a job that will fire you for 'other reasons' when you take off to vote, do not have an abusive spouse that will watch you fill in your mail in ballot if you vote, do not have to walk an hour away to the voting poll because you can't drive, do not have a permanent address for a mail in ballot, so on and so forth.

Yes, there are lazy 'I'm not political' morons who are willfully ignorant and don't vote. But let's not pretend that everything about American infrastructure including car dependency, anti-homelessness laws, understaffed voting polls, centralized media and fake news, aren't all designed to make voting harder than it should be and disproportionately target minorities.

Iamverysmart atheists understanding the nuances of religion and faith being an inherently irrational yet human response to existential dread challenge (impossible)

Wording matters. In the face of countless 'both sides' rhetoric, this can be interpreted as 'equal harm is presently being done to Israelis and Palestinians'.

Shh... you're not allowed to point out racist and sexist themes in LOTR because as everyone knows, 'being a product of its time' absolves it of any modern criticism and saying otherwise makes you a woke DEI snowflake.

Merriam-Webster definition of 'damned if I do, damned if I don't'

idiom informal —used to say that in a specific situation a person can be blamed or considered wrong no matter what he or she does

Your literacy issues do not make for my communication issues.

Because this is fake.

Nope. Completely missing the point here.

This comment isn't criticizing women's dating preferences, it's criticizing the criticism on women's dating preferences.

People blame women for not dating moderate to conservative men, hurting their egos, and further funnelling them into the alt right pipeline.

People blame women for dating conservative men which affirms their political views.

It doesn't matter if women date conservatives men or not, someone will find a way to point fingers.

Nope. You've got it the other way around. I'm blaming people for criticizing women's dating preferences no matter if they date conservatives or not.

People blame women for refusing to date moderate to conservative men, hurting their egos, and funnelling them further into the alt-right pipeline.

People blame women for dating conservative men and affirming their conservative views.

It doesn't matter what political preferences women have, there is just no winning here.

Many young men who can't find a partner are getting radicalized by the manosphere.

Women are damned if they do and damned if they don't.

Edit: this is calling out how women are criticized for both dating and not dating conservative men. Leave to to Lemmy's male echo chamber to explain how this is not the case.

^Invisible disability sufferers when people say 'but you don't look disabled'

Rabies, CSD, ringworm, and salmonella would like to have a word with you.

*How to love someone with anxiety after going insane from carrying the entire mental load while they refuse to get help.

I guarantee you don't know shit about anyone's health in your social circle because you think of yourself so highly that you can diagnose others just by how they 'look'.

'Simply follow CICO' is another way of saying 'I don't understand how metabolic and hormonal disorders work, I am privileged with access to healthy food and don't live in a food desert, I don't work multiple jobs and feed a family of 4, I don't know what it's like to lack the biochemistry to ever feel full after eating a meal, I don't struggle with eating disorders.

Obesity is a health problem. Saying that 'someone who otherwise doesn't have health problems is not making an effort to stay healthy' is as stupid as saying depressed people who don't have health problems aren't making an effort to stay happy.

'Not making an effort' from you says more about how easy and privileged you have it than how lazy other people are. Grow up and learn to have more empathy than a 3 year old.

Yes, let's blame it on moral failure rather than the destruction of walkable spaces, endangering as many outdoor spaces as possible with 3-ton emotional support vehicles, portion sizes at restaurants and grocery stores that are double of other countries because going anywhere requires committing to driving 15mins both ways and parking, and having fuck all for a health care system.

I'll take a dog over a kid screeching in a store.

This says more about how women are socially pressured to wear make up, dress well, wax, and de-age themselves or risk being labeled as 'unwomanly' or become irrelevant.

How many men do you know feel pressured to put the same effort into their appearances as the average woman does?

And don't tell me how working out counts. One, there are zero health benefits to putting on make up. Two, women are incessantly reminded about losing weight rather than just be healthy whether it's from the media, advertisements, or just people using 'fat' as an insult especially for middle aged women.

How often do you hear old women being complimented on their appearances compared to old men? Forget about appearances, how often are they relevant in conversations? Invisible Woman Syndrome is almost like a super power.