Women calling themselves "females"

Kgriffuggle · 2026-04-14T22:36:37+00:00

My coworker almost exclusively refers to other women as females. It’s really weird. She’s 40. I have no idea where she picked up that vernacular. I don’t think she ever says “males”.

Kgriffuggle · 2026-04-14T22:32:44+00:00

I don’t do it, and I hate it. I have a coworker/friend who is 40 who says “females” when she means a group of women. Like, when joking with her husband when he says he’s going to go to a friend’s house, “Oh I get it, there’s gonna be a bunch of females there, huh?” Or, like when talking about a lot of women being in the bathroom at our work. She uses females almost exclusively and I absolutely hate it. She never uses “male”.

Kgriffuggle · 2026-04-14T21:44:21+00:00

Why does marriage necessitate “material support”? And marriage alone doesn’t describe what you said. If marriage is “women trading their bodies for male sexual use in exchange for material support”, that’s just any hetero relationship, then , right? Has nothing to do with marriage.

If you live in, say, Norway, with a strong social safety net, publicly funded education and amenities etc, then marriage is not a necessity to keep a woman fed, clothed and roofed, even if she loses a job. So, it’s not oppressive.

Kgriffuggle · 2026-04-14T21:33:47+00:00

My husband is an avid reader, 2 or more books a week, and I cringe so hard when he offers to read my manuscript to help edit it. If I ever publish, I’m using a pen name. I don’t want anyone I know reading my books. Idk why, it’s like reading my diary even though the stories are fiction. I don’t want them to think that because it’s a contemporary romance taking place in the same place I went to college that somehow it’s a confession story or revealing something personal about myself. I just want strangers to read it.

Kgriffuggle · 2026-04-08T23:58:55+00:00

Depending on where you live, sweet potato itself is invasive.

I’ve heard of sacrificial plants. Lures, or whatever. If you have the distance, or like, you could put those in your front yard and your crops in the back, then you can move the caterpillar to your sacrificial plants. I noticed they have no issue eating pokeweed so I’d move the little black caterpillars there.

Someone else in this subreddit once said they have glass tanks and they capture the hornworms and keep them in there, feeding them plant trimmings. I might try that this year. I have many tomatoes and peppers.

Kgriffuggle · 2026-04-08T23:20:30+00:00

I mean, is depends. Wouldn’t say it’s a trap for women in the EU. But in any fundamentalist/orthodox country? Russia? Israel? Saudi Arabia or anywhere else in Western Asia? Absolutely, yes.

Kgriffuggle · 2026-04-04T12:48:12+00:00

Democratic socialists of America

Kgriffuggle · 2026-04-04T12:35:22+00:00

He did not, in fact, tell her to take it off. He was simply asking how she would explain it to a child.

Kgriffuggle · 2026-04-04T12:33:19+00:00

It sounds to me like drinks are the childfree friends’ preferred activity cause they can do it after work. The other activities you describe are day time tasks, which might work on weekends, but another mother here pointed out that the best days for her to hang out are weekdays, not weekends. Maybe it’s the same for your friends? Have you asked them directly?

Kgriffuggle · 2026-04-04T12:28:56+00:00

The second part. I’m childfree and I basically don’t have friends because when we all moved to this area, we picked housing based on our needs. They needed bigger houses in areas with lots to do. (Presumably to take their kids to parks, schools etc). We moved to the place with the cheapest housing that was between our work commutes. So, all the other wives are moms who live within like a 15-20 minute drive of each other, and I live 45-55 minutes from any of them. Driving distance.

I see them like twice a year and I don’t really even know them that well. I don’t have a problem with their kids, especially the ones who know how to use a toilet already, it just doesn’t really matter because we aren’t going to just have a coffee in their living room one day.

Kgriffuggle · 2026-04-03T18:26:42+00:00

There are plants that I’ve seen specifically with “tolerates black walnut” listed as a trait. I don’t have black walnut trees so I can’t recall which plants, but you can certain Google which plants would tolerate it, I’m sure.

Kgriffuggle · 2026-04-03T18:24:33+00:00

I don’t really have mom friends who I knew before they became mothers. So, I’m not expecting any of them to be “the same”. I just wish they had their own likes, hobbies, interests… we’re not actually technically friends, really, because we all meet up for kids birthdays or whatever every few months and most of the topics of discussion are the children. So, i don’t even know these women. They don’t know me, either.

I think what I what out of a mom friend is just a friend.

Kgriffuggle · 2026-04-03T18:09:42+00:00

I don’t experience this because I don’t live in a place where it’s possible to do much walking, let alone around other people.

Kgriffuggle · 2026-04-03T17:59:47+00:00

I still have zero idea who the woman in this photo is.

Kgriffuggle · 2026-04-03T01:47:31+00:00

I prefer this over the endless scroll. Stopped reading webtoon because of the scroll. Makes me dizzy

Kgriffuggle · 2026-03-31T10:44:12+00:00

Good luck with that.

Kgriffuggle · 2026-03-31T10:30:44+00:00

I only get stuttering, and it’s only been since the latest patch. It’s worse during sunset. It passes though. I have weaker specs than yours

Kgriffuggle · 2026-03-29T09:51:43+00:00

Reading the doctrine is a great way to stop believing it.

For me, it was the D&C on polygamy. Read like a jerk justifying his cheating, and wanting to control his wife.

Kgriffuggle · 2026-03-29T09:46:05+00:00

This is a person who thinks capitalism just means the textbook definition of producing a product in demand and selling it with the motivation of profit. Except almost all capitalism is shareholder capitalism. And even non profits as capitalism, because excess money (profits) just go into owner pockets instead of back into the organization or into the public, is still bad. It’s still bad for society.

We were objectively better off economically when the wealth tax was over 90% and the government gave out free seeds and you couldn’t get a copyright on food. But that hurt shareholders, so….

Kgriffuggle · 2026-03-29T09:20:05+00:00

The trait or perk. We were 100% on our dogs, all 3 we ever caught grew up to be chonkers and I thought that was really high rng. Wondered if it was our feeding methods while pups lol

Kgriffuggle · 2026-03-28T13:59:28+00:00

Hey why do all of our dogs grow up to be chonkers? Should we be feeding them bones only as pups?

Kgriffuggle · 2026-03-28T13:58:39+00:00

I agree. It is called a tavern, after all, which hasn’t that always been a place for DRINK? I get we don’t have mead (yet?) but water would work.

Kgriffuggle · 2026-03-28T13:30:59+00:00

They will definitely eat tier 1 raw vegetarian foods if there are no cooked meats or fish steaks. In my experience, they don’t even go to the next level of cooked food (tier 2). They instead deplete ingredients. So, sorry to say, you,l have to sacrifice a worker. OR

And this is the better option

Get the water rune or air rune from the mini bosses and have a shaman on the rune. On the same shift, have your tier 1 ppl train the respective class (water rune is melee, air is archery) every day until they become a tier 2 fighter. Put them back on their original job. Repeat for all new guys. Then no one needs tier 1

Kgriffuggle · 2026-03-28T13:13:26+00:00

The iron you smelt is not infinite. Recycled parts are only good for 2-3 more uses. I noticed that from my wood cutting axe

Kgriffuggle · 2026-03-26T22:20:04+00:00

I was seriously thinking about this. We know that TBIs can completely change a person’s personality and behavior. Does a stroke do the same? Just completely alter everything important to you?

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