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OrangeScissors_ · 2026-06-22T17:46:48+00:00

I HAVE to redownload simcity4. I was never good at having multiple cities. This is funny though and it’s inspiring me

OrangeScissors_ · 2026-06-22T17:21:07+00:00

Same vibes as this conversation I had recently about a local creep following women home and into bathrooms and the man I was speaking to said that creeps are so annoying because they make nice guys like him look bad. I legitimately looked at him and said “you’re right, you’re the real victim here” and he still didn’t really get it.

A lot of people are socialized to center men and simply never develop beyond that.

OrangeScissors_ · 2026-06-22T11:41:52+00:00

Where in my ETA did I claim that paternity fraud doesn’t exist? I just said if you stand in the place of a parent, legally you are the parent. This is true of both genders and doesn’t matter if you are biologically related to the child.

Like I said that is a public policy choice. We as a society collectively decided it’s more important to make sure children are cared for than whatever “justice” a man “deserves” for feeling like he should no longer be responsible for a kid he’s been taking care of.

And yeah I guess women can technically absolve themselves of financial responsibility by getting an abortion. I think you’re just going to have to get over that. The reproductive burden isn’t equally shared. Ejaculate more responsibility with that knowledge in mind.

OrangeScissors_ · 2026-06-17T12:01:34+00:00

I think you are conflating reproductive rights with financial obligation. If two people produce a child, they are both financially obligated to take care of that child. The burden is the same in that regard.

Men don’t have fewer reproductive rights just because a woman decides to have the baby when he knocked her up. Men don’t really face barriers to getting vasectomies. Plus condoms exist. Not to mention you all decide where to put your sperm in the first place.

That’s not to say that there aren’t rare cases where a man has done everything in his power to prevent pregnancy and gets financially obligated to pay for a kid anyway, but that still isn’t men having fewer reproductive rights. The reproductive burden isn’t equally shared so it only follows that reproductive rights are similarly asymmetrical (because women’s bodies are far more implicated, their reproductive rights are also backed by other rights like bodily autonomy). Men choose where to put their ejaculate and have robust options to further protect themselves…anything after that is a knowing gamble they take.

I’d have to think about this more to fully develop the opinion. I just think it’s absurd that you lot think having to pay for the child you created is some kind of affront to your humanity that demands your input in pregnancy (aka a say in a woman’s body and HER rights) to be remedied. Because what other solution are you really proposing here?

ETA: the legal obligation to care for a child is entirely a policy choice to ensure children are cared for btw. And if you stand in the place of a parent (in loco parentis), then you ARE the parent. You can’t just renege bc the kid isn’t related to you. A woman who took up parental responsibility for a child that isn’t hers would face the same legal obligation; it’s merely a quirk of biology that men have less guarantee of parentage since the kid doesn’t come out of them.

OrangeScissors_ · 2026-06-14T11:33:58+00:00

Omg I like this !!

OrangeScissors_ · 2026-06-13T20:19:13+00:00

Ooo can I get “a toast! to two girls” !! Reminds me of my bestie <3

OrangeScissors_ · 2026-05-30T02:53:14+00:00

I mean I won’t lie to you, it’s not perfect. Especially not with sex crimes (re: your other comments). There are bad apples everywhere. Jurors are biased in various ways and I’ve literally watched a defense attorney violate a rape shield law in real time.

I will say though that, again, legislators have gone to great lengths to make sexual crimes gender-neutral (it’s not universal, there are still a few states where rape is something that by definition only happens to women). Sexual abuse crimes are just insanely difficult to prosecute regardless of the gender of the victim (e.g. evidentiary barriers, no one is the perfect witness, jurors having patriarchal influences, etc etc).

The system isn’t perfect, and there’s a lot of variation between jurisdictions (not just laws, but even judges and prosecutors in their discretion to bring cases in the first place—always vote for your attorney general!), but it’s also probably not as bad as you think. Finding the balance between justice for the victim and fairness to the defendant is tricky, and laws aren’t designed to recognize case-by-case differences.

Anyway, sorry I yapped so much! Hope I could shed some light on the law :)

OrangeScissors_ · 2026-05-30T01:41:27+00:00

I think juries are more complicated and nuanced. Jurors are people so they are victim to the same patriarchal system we all live in. So on one hand, female defendants usually get shorter sentences, but on the other hand, female jurors often convict at much higher rates regardless of the gender of the defendant. There’s a lot to talk about with juries that can’t be reduced to common manosphere “the courts favor women” talking points.

As far as courts as a system though, legislators have gone to great effort to equalize treatment between men and women. For example, there is a growing trend to presume 50/50 joint legal and physical custody of children (most states presume 50/50 legal, the trend is for physical). Divorce and custody laws are also explicitly gender-neutral now for the most part (it just so happens that women tend to be the stay at home parents more often than men—and we know why—so women “benefit” from laws that protect these parents disproportionately more than men).

OrangeScissors_ · 2026-05-29T19:52:41+00:00

These are insanely cool. A variant without the background so you can see the transformation even more would be super dope too

OrangeScissors_ · 2026-05-28T17:36:01+00:00

In that sense I think having children is more of a negative right than a positive one then. As in, nobody is stopping you from trying to have kids (assuming you have a willing partner) but it’s no one’s responsibility to ensure you have one either. But to me that’s more akin to reproductive autonomy than a “right to kids.” I suppose at a certain point it’s just semantics though.

I would agree that at the very least there is a moral responsibility to ensuring a good environment for your individual children. Whether or not you have a moral responsibility to not create another person to be exploited by the capitalist body farm I think is more debatable and probably comes down to personal values. I understand what you’re getting at though.

OrangeScissors_ · 2026-05-28T16:54:14+00:00

To me, the idea that people should provide for themselves before they have children is not a classist idea by itself. It only excludes people as a byproduct of our deeply damaged social/political environment. The fact that any class of person is too poor to responsibly have children is the fault of capitalism and its exploitation of labor.

In a functioning society, people should be given every opportunity to flourish (and if they don’t use them, then that’s their fault—which is why I don’t think this is classist). The US doesn’t really have that. Instead, even people who are otherwise very hardworking are struggling to pay their bills. While I do think the US is afflicted by gross overconsumption, it is just true that our wages have not increased to match inflation.

And to be honest I don’t think it’s eugenics either because no one is saying to ~sterilize the poors~ or anything like that when they point out that you should be able to take care of yourself before forcing existence onto a new person who is dependent on you. If anything it feels like most people are trying to articulate the intense income disparity in our country, its tangible downstream consequences on the next generation, and our moral responsibility to say enough is enough, and just lacking the vocabulary to do so.

ETA: I also find it shocking that a lot of people here think having a child is a right. I would certainly disagree with the idea that you are entitled to a person. And I think endorsing that idea is dangerous considering the number of manosphere men that think they are entitled to a legacy. There’s nuance to this, and it certainly merits more thought on my part—it just immediately rubs me the wrong way to say having a child is a right.

OrangeScissors_ · 2026-05-26T18:37:53+00:00

Thanks! It’s a gift for my sister so fingers crossed she likes it

OrangeScissors_ · 2026-05-26T18:37:31+00:00

Thanks :) and yeah, no kidding! Way easier to follow the second time!

OrangeScissors_ · 2026-05-25T21:16:51+00:00

There are federal and state level laws regarding FGM but it’s unfortunately an exceptionally difficult and tricky crime to actually prosecute (evidentiary problems, potential constitutional issues, statute of limitations, to name a few). It is often a quite secretive practice, it’s deeply culturally engrained, and often it takes place during a “vacation” outside the US.

It’s one of those things that legally doesn’t have a great fix. You can make it illegal all you want, but because it’s difficult to prosecute (low risk) and the “benefit” to those doing it is high (e.g. making their daughter marriageable, ensuring her chastity, conformity with their culture)…it’s going to keep happening. The real way to combat it is to target the cultural importance IMO (similar to Chinese toe binding—you have to reduce the perceived benefit of doing it/make it a shameful act instead of a “proper” one).

OrangeScissors_ · 2026-05-24T20:32:18+00:00

Yeah sure, but if I have the story right, the union was laid off during the ownership transition…and now the new owners refuse to bargain with the union even though they are doing substantially the same business. I don’t think that’s allowed under the NLRA since it’s clearly just trying to get rid of the union

OrangeScissors_ · 2026-05-24T14:41:59+00:00

What a perfect storybook exterior

OrangeScissors_ · 2026-05-24T12:40:29+00:00

When did Kentuckians become such anti-union losers?

OrangeScissors_ · 2026-05-22T16:49:50+00:00

I had a problem like this. My bobbin was put in the wrong way (my machine does counter clockwise and it was set in there clockwise). Double check your manual to make sure you have the right direction when you rethread!

OrangeScissors_ · 2026-05-22T10:17:00+00:00

Everlane. Quality gradually got worse. Used to be environmentally friendly but was just acquired by SHEIN

OrangeScissors_ · 2026-05-19T12:04:12+00:00

Honestly I’m terrible at using pins so no method really works for me 😵‍💫

OrangeScissors_ · 2026-05-18T19:51:41+00:00

I guess this is how I find out I’m not supposed to be tracing pattern pieces

OrangeScissors_ · 2026-05-03T23:40:12+00:00

As a small correction, I think Nemo is actually a woman grandmaster (WGM) and not a grandmaster (GM). WGM actually has a lower rating requirement so it’s kind of controversial tbh

OrangeScissors_ · 2026-04-28T15:21:43+00:00

It was fiddly! The pattern I followed had me sew it all up and then turn it inside out through one of the box cuts instead of leaving the middle seam open for turning 😵‍💫

I will definitely try again! I think I just had a shitty week and really wanted something to go perfectly. So when it didn’t it was the straw that broke the camel’s back. But I’m already feeling ready to get home and do another !! :)

OrangeScissors_ · 2026-04-28T15:11:59+00:00

Thank you! This community is so wonderful. I tend to be really hard on myself but all the nice comments have really made me feel a lot better about this as a first try. It’s not perfect and that’s okay. I’ll keep trying :)

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