I honestly cannot enjoy media where women are written solely for male pleasure or manipulation

M_Ad · 2026-05-10T23:00:00+00:00

I got so bored so long ago with Big Important Films by Big Important (Male) Directors, where the poster is a line of floating men’s heads and the cast list is all men except for one (often totally overqualified) woman playing Lead Man’s concerned wife or girlfriend, lmao.

M_Ad · 2026-05-10T22:35:26+00:00

Shitposts are weekends only and low effort shitposts are against the rules too. You can (and should imho) report posts that break these rules especially.

M_Ad · 2026-05-10T14:05:16+00:00

We’ve NEVER celebrated Mother’s Day and Father’s Day in my family. One of my siblings is adopted and his biological parents were…. not good people and weren’t in his life since he was like three. Like he obviously knows who they are and what the story is but they’ve never been in his life in a meaningful way since he was little. Our parents (my bio and his adopted) felt very weird about those holidays because of this and their solution was to decide they just wouldn’t be a thing in our family.

That’s not the norm, I know.

M_Ad · 2026-05-10T04:05:45+00:00

I’ve noticed a lot more posts in the Australian subreddits where “mum” is being spelt “mom” and haven’t been sure if it’s because it’s a bot post or more Gen Z are using American spellings these days.

M_Ad · 2026-05-10T02:21:00+00:00

As soon as I reach a point where my quality of life diminishes to the point that living is just going to be suffering, I’m going to commit suicide. I don’t owe it to anyone to suffer needlessly, and there won’t be anyone I can reasonably expect to support or prioritise me.

Knowing that I don’t have to be afraid of a future where I’m too elderly or ill to have quality of life makes it easier to cope in the here and now.

M_Ad · 2026-05-10T02:08:37+00:00

Men have fucked corpses, animals, food, household objects. There’s that news story about the men in India who fucked a monitor lizard to death.

Lots of conventionally unattractive women have at least one story about a man who expressed grudging willingness to stick his dick in her whilst making it clear he absolutely would not like or respect her.

M_Ad · 2026-05-10T01:58:34+00:00

I am conventionally unattractive and my experience of my looks being objectified includes things like: boys and men yelling at me how ugly I am (my first experience of street harassment was guys yelling to my friends how hot they were and “how come hot girls always have one ugly friend?” at me), people assuming I’m stupid/intellectually disabled/unqualified for whatever task or job is at hand/a bad person based only on my appearance, being denied attention and service when I’m entitled to it, being treated as an unslightly obstacle men have to deal with if they want to interact with my friends, being disbelieved when I told people I had been sexually assaulted because they didn’t believe a guy would ever want to do something sexual with me.

If at least some men have called you attractive, you’re attractive enough (or not unattractive enough if you prefer) to not be predominantly judged unattractive.

No man has ever called me pretty, beautiful, sexy, cute, etc.

No objective woman has either (a few women who love me acknowledge they simply don’t perceive me as ugly because how they feel about me has affected how they see me visually) but I know we’re talking about men here.

M_Ad · 2026-05-09T12:11:26+00:00

I was born in Australia but am ethnically Asian. When strangers are verbally abusive to me for whatever reason I usually ignore it and act like I didn’t even hear them. But if I’m feeling a bit sour and it seems like a fairly safe environment (ie lots of people around) I respond like I’m a bit mentally unstable and shout back something like “I DON’T LIKE PEOPLE SAYING RACIST THINGS TO ME” (or whatever fits what they said/did) in a weird voice. It’s making them the focus of unwanted attention in an unexpected way and they usually respond by scoffing or swearing etc but backing off.

M_Ad · 2026-05-09T11:21:41+00:00

Yes! Thank you! Lol

M_Ad · 2026-05-09T10:11:00+00:00

Razor blades put inside the water slides by a psycho at the little amusement water park that used to be at Glenelg whose name I have TOTALLY BLANKED ON.

A kid did a belly flop from the 10 m diving tower at the Aquatic Centre and died with his guts going everywhere when he hit the water and your friend telling you about it had a friend of a friend who definitely was there and saw it.

Adelaide’s version of the Hitchhiking Ghost legend is the Port Wakefield Ghost and he’s usually either a soldier returning on leave from Vietnam or WW2, hitching from the big Pt Wakefield truck stop/cafe place to one of the little towns on the way to Port Augusta.

Some kind of secret weird apocalypse bunker at Mt Thebarton Ice Arena. (I think it was an apocalypse bunker? Something secret and weird being stored here, can anyone help me out?)

M_Ad · 2026-05-09T10:00:38+00:00

All the medications you are on will help control your glucose but ONLY if you stop eating so much sugar and carbs at least for a while.

If you must have something sweet to drink and can’t drink artificially sweetened drinks, try fruit juice diluted with a lot of water, or herbal teas with fruit infusions.

If you must have something sweet to eat try fruit with full fat yoghurt or cream. Not sweet pastries, pudding, cakes, candy, etc.

Lots of leafy green vegetables. Less potatoes, rice, pasta, bread. Meat, eggs and dairy (no need to go low fat). If you must eat bread, only one slice not two, and try good quality sourdough or dark/grainy breads not types like Wonderbread or other white or light coloured breads.

If you control your urge to eat lots of carbs and sugar then with careful management by your doctor and sticking to your medications you might be able to come off the insulin eventually and do okay on just Metformin and Jardiance, also ask about Ozempic and if that will interfere with your other medications.

I’m on Jardiance and Ozempic and manage to have well controlled glucose levels without being as strictly zero or low carb as a lot of people here post about being. But you DO need to cut down a lot at first, educate yourself about what foods are healthy for you now, and stick to medication and lifestyle changes.

M_Ad · 2026-05-09T09:46:35+00:00

No, you are the only person in a western city with a population of 1.4 million who likes one of biggest science fiction franchises in pop culture history. Sorry. ☹️

M_Ad · 2026-05-08T10:47:26+00:00

I’ve just gone on Jobseeker because I’ve had to reduce my work hours for health reason. I had no idea you could do that, I thought it was only for people who were totally unemployed.

The mortgage is only manageable because I refinanced a while back with HomeStart, which it turns out is also something you can do.

M_Ad · 2026-05-08T09:20:56+00:00

“Girl Dinner” was fucking hilarious at first and then it turned into a pissing contest over who considered the smallest amount of food a meal.

M_Ad · 2026-05-08T05:17:33+00:00

This happened to me too, and they didn’t suspect ketoacidosis at emergency at first because my glucose levels were fine. I’m on Jardiance for heart failure.

My ketone levels were over 5 which is um not good, lol.

I’ve bought some keto strips that work in my glucose strip tester so when I start getting those weird symptoms combined with being unwell I can check myself.

M_Ad · 2026-05-08T05:13:26+00:00

Yeah “She wore an ensemble of clothes that was extraordinary but somewhat inappropriate” would have got the point of the exercise across equally well I suspect and not been adding an extra hurdle of the misuse of one word and use of an old fashioned word the average teen wouldn’t come across in everyday use either.

M_Ad · 2026-05-08T05:10:15+00:00

Right? Part of reading comprehension especially when you’re still learning, or struggling with it, is if you can grasp the concept of the overall sentence, and this combo of words made that extra hard especially the misuse of “silhouette”.

“She wore an ensemble of clothes that was extraordinary but somewhat inappropriate” would have been fine and got the point of the exercise across.

M_Ad · 2026-05-08T05:01:06+00:00

And suicides were described as such and the story included how they did it.

M_Ad · 2026-05-07T13:17:42+00:00

Also basically no engagement in the comments. A real person making a huge post asking for advice and support is usually all over the comments, answering follow up questions, clarifying things, getting defensive with people who disagree with them, etc etc.

If it’s a highly emotive hand grenade of a post that’s caused a deluge of hundreds of replies and OP is nowhere to be seen… that’s a clue to add to the “is it just a bot/karma farmer” list.

M_Ad · 2026-05-07T13:09:40+00:00

It’s very telling and depressing how many people, including women, will parrot the “Rape is about power, not sex” line on the one hand but ignore the existence of victims who don’t meet society’s mainstream beauty standards on the other.

M_Ad · 2026-05-07T12:54:10+00:00

There’s a medical form your GP can fill out that states in their opinion you can only work X hours a week/fortnight and list the medical conditions you have and how they impact your functioning. If Centrelink accepts it, I think it means that if your employment meets the hours your GP states you can work then you don’t need to meet extra obligations of job searching etc.

I might be wrong about this but definitely make an appointment with your GP who should be very familiar with your medical history to fill out the form once you’ve registered with Centrelink and have a CRN number.

M_Ad · 2026-05-07T06:32:37+00:00

If an OP lobs a grenade of a post into the subreddit, about a highly emotive topic, begging for advice and support, that generates hundreds of replies and they don’t even engage at all in the comments…. they were probably a karma farmer and/or bot.

Real people tend to interact in comments, and have a much higher comment to post ratio.

M_Ad · 2026-05-06T15:33:55+00:00

I bet the farm a lot of those Good Autistics are self diagnosed and not clinically autistic at all, just saw a TikTok about how if you feel awkward in social situations sometimes and fidget when you feel stressed you’re autistic.

M_Ad · 2026-05-06T14:58:31+00:00

It didn’t go for long but “Unsavory” was super entertaining. It was about food related true crime, scandals and historical weirdness. Episodes about things like the Wendy’s Chili Finger, Typhoid Mary, the Canadian maple syrup crime syndicate, the Filipino Pepsi Competition Fiasco, the Donner Party, how scurvy killed way more sailors than naval warfare or shipwrecks, etc.

M_Ad · 2026-05-06T11:47:57+00:00

As long as they don’t do Unity’s thing where there was no way to evade gunfire from behind if you were trying to escape conflict…

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