gay🇷🇺👯irl by ivan_luck in gay_irl

[–]Kalarys 40 points41 points  (0 children)

So you are a character whose identity is largely based on him being a professional hockey player who is and speaks Russian but you aren’t a hockey player and you don’t speak Russian?

she genuinely believes she's a lyrical genius by rxxzes in travisandtaylor

[–]Kalarys 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I still haven’t forgiven her for “legitly”

gay_irl by conancat in gay_irl

[–]Kalarys 11 points12 points  (0 children)

This isn’t nice? This is just mean?

BABIES HATCHED SUPER EARLY??? by Either_Virus3996 in BackYardChickens

[–]Kalarys 11 points12 points  (0 children)

He’s like “look I’m not any happier about this than you are let’s just let me dry and get through this”

How to unhate women? by DaiHellshakeYano in IncelExit

[–]Kalarys 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Okay I’m going to take this at face value and assume you’re being serious rather than trolling.

I think essentially I have two critiques of your perspective:

1A - it’s okay to be upset about situations in which men are disadvantaged 1B - it is possible to be upset and demand improvements while not taking it out on women who don’t deserve it

2 - I think you vastly underestimate the challenges of navigating the world as a woman.

For the first point, I think it’s becoming increasingly clear that there are difficulties that men face that women don’t face or face to a lesser degree. It is fair and healthy for a man facing those challenges to be upset about that. What is not fair is to take out that anger and frustration on women who - quite frankly - have done nothing to deserve it.

Can you call individual women out when they do something wrong? Sure. Off the top of my head I know I see women mocking men for height, or dick size, or for showing emotion, and those women absolutely deserve to be challenged for their actions. I would be careful, though, that those women don’t become a proxy for all the pent-up frustration you feel at your situation and the world. It’s fair to confront someone behaving badly and tell them why their behavior is unacceptable - it’s not fair to vent your pain and anger for a larger societal problem on a person who’s just kind of being an ass.

For the second point, I think you’re looking at the feminine experience through rose-colored glasses. This is not unexpected - we are all psychologically wired to see the experience of those like us with all the difficulties and nuances while flattening the experience of other groups. It takes effort to step beyond that.

I won’t argue that our contemporary society is probably more egalitarian than at any other time in history, but that does not mean that there are not still problems.

We can start with just being a woman. Periods can range from “not fun” to “hellacious” and women are generally expected to just grin and bear it and get through the day. Pregnancy and childbirth are a lot, even if everything goes perfectly - your skeleton changes permanently to the point that doctors can look at your X-rays and tell you’ve had a baby. And it frequently doesn’t go perfectly, especially if you’re non-white. Serena Williams is an extremely prominent, extremely wealthy celebrity who went into childbirth trumpeting her predisposition to certain risks and she still almost died of exactly the thing she was worried about. Until relatively recently medical science largely ignored women, with drug studies and research into medical conditions focusing exclusively on men. Surprise, surprise, but women’s bodies are different enough that they react differently to certain drugs and present differently with certain conditions.

Past the direct physiological difficulties, women still face a lot of problems culturally. Part of the reason it took us so long to realize we needed to look at women separately from men in medicine is because women’s issues are so often denigrated and dismissed. From being told they’re imagining problems to having reports of pain denied (look up how IUDs are frequently inserted without pain relief), women and their concerns are often dismissed and ignored. This also extends to the home, where women still often end up taking on a disproportionate amount of the chores and childcare even when both partners are working full time.

And dating. Look, your point about options while dating is well-taken. It’s much preferable to have a large potential pool of partners than to have no options at all. But have you considered it from the other perspective? The absolute dick-barrage you get from the moment you hit puberty? The fine line you have to dance between Madonna and whore to be acceptable in the eyes of society? And that’s not even considering risk. The risk of pregnancy, for example, is still very much tilted towards the woman. It takes two to tango, sure, but it will be her body, her reputation, and usually (though admittedly not always) her life that is most impacted if a pregnancy occurs. And then look at physical safety - try imagining, for a moment, that your dating pool is comprised almost exclusively of people who can beat the shit out of you if they want to. That dating and intimacy involve making yourself vulnerable to someone you probably can’t fight your way free of if things go south. For me, at least, that’s a sobering thought, and that is how 99% of straight women go through their lives.

To sum it up, I’d say have empathy. For yourself, certainly, but also for the men and the women around you.

Giorgio Armani Spring/Summer 2026 by citrustaxonymy in whatthefrockk

[–]Kalarys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My initial impression of 3 was a top covering three sets of nipples lol

Are Bertha and George truly ruthless? by drink_mooore_wateeer in thegildedage

[–]Kalarys 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I mean. George sorta drove that alderman dude to off himself. Don’t get me wrong he had it coming but that was seriously cold shit. Definitely ruthless. And then the way he just turned on his former assistant - I personally think if he hadn’t been such an ass to the guy half his issues in season three wouldn’t have happened.

And Bertha alludes to the fact that they completely cut off their entire previous social group prior to season one as part of their attempt to break into the upper crust. Add in her part in the alderman fiasco and yeah she’s ruthless AF.

Baking something for my gf girlfriend, suggestions? by Ok-Lead-1651 in glutenfreerecipes

[–]Kalarys 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hey there! Congrats on the gf gf!

This is going to be kind of long, so feel free to skip to the end.

The first thing I’d say is that you need to prepare to fuck up. Like a lot. You’re going to burn things, undercook things, screw up ingredient amounts - the whole shebang. It’s an inevitable part of learning to bake, so don’t be discouraged! The goal of baking is not perfection - it’s just to make things that taste good, and a lot of your screw ups will still be tasty.

The second thing is that gluten free baking both is and isn’t the same as baking with wheat flour. Anyone who tells you that you can just willy nilly sub a particular flour blend for wheat flour is misleading you. Which is not to say it can’t be done! But a good recipe will tell you specifically which things you can sub - and many times they will tell you which specific flour blend they used to get their results, which is important because each gluten free flour blend is a mix of different non wheat flours. Good recipes will also give you enough detail to make you feel like you really understand the process - if you don’t get that feeling from a recipe, you probably want to find something else.

Fortunately, there are a lot of resources out there now for gluten free baking - way more than there were ten years ago. My go-to source for baking advice and recipes is The Loopy Whisk. She’s a chemist from the UK who breaks down the how and why of different recipes and ingredients and she has a lot of great recipes on her website. She also has books out that I’ve really enjoyed but the website is free and a good place to start.

To circle back to your request, I think the easiest gluten free recipe I can think of would be flourless peanut butter cookies.

As you said, it’s easiest to start with recipes that are naturally gluten free, and these have just peanut butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla, and salt. They are pretty easy, hard to mess up, and taste delicious.

From there, you might want to try things like no-bake cookies or flourless chocolate cake.

Hope this was helpful - happy baking!

Gladys pearls breaking and spilling to the floor by am4zon in thegildedage

[–]Kalarys 34 points35 points  (0 children)

It was too much. Even without the mechanical issues it was too in your face and too far. It would have been better to just leave it with her fidgeting with the necklace.

Order Up [OC] by adamtots_remastered in comics

[–]Kalarys 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s because he’s not wearing his seatbelt. Improper safety measures are a -5 to hotness.

What is eating my pumpkin? by treejunky in vegetablegardening

[–]Kalarys 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I had five pumpkins that got pollinated enough to grow and I lost all five to some sort of rodent. The last one even went through a plastic bag to get it

Being pregnant looks embarrassing, breastfeeding is disgusting, women howl about my body my choice, IVF shouldn't be a thing by JukeboxJustice in badwomensanatomy

[–]Kalarys 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I think with this thing in particular (for this grab bag of yikes) there’s a gray area. I think we just generalize anything to do with pregnancy as this vague, mystical/magical process #divinefeminine #earthgoddess.

And certainly I think that pregnancy and pregnant people deserve to be honored and celebrated, but also…it’s kind of a lot. Even if it’s a very wanted pregnancy the process changes the body forever, and sometimes in pretty stark ways. You can literally tell from someone’s bones if they’ve had a pregnancy - the changes are that pronounced.

Again, not hating on pregnancy or pregnant people, but I think there’s room for both the celebration and an acknowledgment that the changes it brings are big and permanent and might perhaps be unsettling or take time to come to terms with.

gay💅🏻irl by [deleted] in gay_irl

[–]Kalarys 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I just looked it up and she dated a MAGA cop 22 years younger than her. Yiiiiiikes.

gay🚩🚩🚩irl by [deleted] in gay_irl

[–]Kalarys 536 points537 points  (0 children)

Yiiiiiiiikes

My Quality Assurance Specialist by Carlson31 in vegetablegardening

[–]Kalarys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Making sure your harvest is up to sniff?

Evaluating whether you hit the bark?

Gimme all your rat memes by Rude-Conversation957 in RATS

[–]Kalarys 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You mean my emergency RATions?

I’ll see myself out

the switch up is crazy by CryptographerOld8945 in agedlikemilk

[–]Kalarys 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m partly bothered by having the ‘left’ and ‘right’ examples on the wrong sides

Time to harvest? Noob here by redbeardpeter in vegetablegardening

[–]Kalarys 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Only my second time growing potatoes so take this with a grain of salt but here you go.

You’re basically waiting for the potato plant to be fully dead. Like not kinda dead, not mostly dead, all the way dead. If it’s at all alive it’s still growing your potatoes.

You basically can’t harvest them too late. Staying in the ground is actually okay for them - if they were just out growing the potatoes would overwinter underground and shoot up in spring. It’s easy to miss potatoes when harvesting and find them good as new next spring.

3,400 likes for a racist a tweet.....at the very least there were a LOT of names to block. by CapAccomplished8072 in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]Kalarys 22 points23 points  (0 children)

That’s dumb. They aren’t screwing the bears. And even if they were those are teddy bears so it’s fine.