I didn’t say it excludes holding women accountable, i said it includes holding men accountable.

In other words, to put it most generally, people should hold people accountable for sexual harassment. And if we agree on that, that this is the standard, then my impression was wrong and I’m glad for it. But then, why formulate the idea in a gendered manner at all?

if you’re cool with knowingly letting a man rape a woman, which is what my “includes” referred to, then feel free to say it explictly because you’re bluntness really didn’t make that clear for me

My bluntness wasn’t about that issue specifically. As for what I think of rape and rapists, I kind of implied already in the first part of my previous comment. I can, of course, directly state that I’m not cool with it, but as you say the real question is whether such a position is actually followed in real life. I mean, the specific scenario you mention is extreme and particularly easy to express disgust and anger over, and it’s unlikely I’ll ever find myself near such a situation at all. The more troublesome are the smaller and more ambiguous cases, stuff that gets pushed under the rug, stuff that gets downplayed with “oh he’s just like that sometimes, haha, don’t take it seriously”, stuff where nothing can realistically be done, etc.

if there are any men out there who think they are one of the good ones then please understand this isn’t about you

But no man thinks they aren’t “one of the good ones”. The worst ones, in fact, are the least likely to be introspective enough for any sort of self-criticism in this direction. Rapists don’t feel guilty about rape.

You can still be a “good one” but you will have to show it through your actions. And that includes holding other men accountable when they are in the wrong.

Here you’re introducing a specific standard for being a “good one”, more objective than leaving it up to the individual to classify themselves.

But let me put it bluntly: if being a man somehow makes it my duty to take particular care of other men’s behaviour specifically because they’re men - well, I refuse this bizarre, gendered moral duty. Morality is not gender-based.

Putting them all separately would come off as kind of spammy, so it’s not a bad solution to do it in batch

You might appreciate the source of the meme as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkoKke-KSb4

Lyrics annotations on Genius always sound like a tryhard school essay, lol

Is this meant for French or English speakers? 🤔

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as burek, is in fact, burek sa mesom, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, burek plus meso. Burek is not a food unto itself, but rather another component of a fully functioning dish made useful by the meat, onions, and the cook’s hair comprising an oily, vein-clogging meal.

Russians also move to Kazakhstan

It’s not my work, I don’t want to (and don’t have much of a right to) meddle with it. If I even thought of updating it to my tastes, I’d do everything differently, far from changing just one word. Art can’t be updated.

The interesting part is, to me, how a few details do seem not at all outdated, despite many others being grating.

I must admit, now I understand even more clearly why the author deleted all of her work off the internet…

The comic was pretty popular back in the day, the minimal empty style had its charm, and worked well with the themes.

I suspect the comic’s notion of “nerd” is just outdated. Or off the mark. Either way, the actual criticisms don’t apply to what we call nerds, but to something else, others have pointed out the better word would be tech bros.

I’m kind of repeating myself, but the comic is pretty old (before 2014), and I think the culture and words’ meanings have shifted a bit in the meantime.

The comic is from >10 years ago (ran 2007‐2014).

I do find the reactions interesting, including the negative. The comics by this author were pretty popular, running from 2007 to 2014, but today they do strike an odd note in some regards (as I already anticipated in my description; perhaps that’s why the author nuked her site). Techbro wasn’t a term at the time yet, so ‘nerd’ it was. And I do have the impression nerdiness was more consumerist at the time…

It’s not my comic, see the description, it’s a decade old.

Well it’s a tweet, probably not worth reading anyway.

They’re taking our memes!

Oh, no need to remind me, I’m not even a former but a current redditor. I just find the idea of the little reddit alien being a pest funny. Maybe precisely because I’m still on the site…

Now his arms are short, wtf 😓

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Turns out it takes three slashes, one has to block the underscores from italicising the middle

It’s not going to make much of a difference for me either way, I don’t like people just because they’re sexy.

You dropped an arm there, btw, here you go: \

Make sure you reinforce it this time, type it like this: \\

So, it has to be admitted that there’s no strong, direct evidence for it. The main argument in that thread is that he’s supposed to have some scarring, but none of the other photos from the time period show them either, so the guy just concludes they all must’ve been edited.

And yes, the look is somewhat different from the other photos, mainly the eyes, more widely open than on the other pics. But people can hold different facial expressions…