For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don’t want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That’s ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use “less” when they should use “fewer”

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    Some feminists(not misandrists) are trying to take the word back from terfs and misandrists.

    It also doesn’t help public perception of feminism when you have conservatives using words like ‘feminazi’ to discredit the movement entirely and give people the impression that all feminists hate men. Thanks Rush Limaugh.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminazi

    Admittedly there are some fringe parts of the movement that are in need of constant criticism(terfs in particular, misandrists). It unfortunate when extremists start trying to overtake a movement and start shoving bullshit into it, but it’s not impossible to take it back. Just a lot of work and community effort from folks acting in good faith.

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      One of the parts I was thinking of specifically revolved around sexual politics in 2nd wave feminism.

      The basic idea was that consent to sex can only happen between equals; if one party has a higher social status than the other, then sex is coercive. 2nd wave feminism says that women always occupy a lower social status than men, and therefore sex can never be consensual, e.g., all sex is rape (except gay or lesbian sex, I guess?, but then there’s still relative social status between the participants to consider…). That discounts any agency for an individual person though; it says that women can’t freely consent.

      Backlash against that line of thought is part of what drove the 3rd wave of feminism.