I slept like a rock after the day of chores, and with T back in the house, but now I'm awake. It's a Maids Monday, but we're pretty much ready for it because I did all the prep yesterday. And it's the last day before Election Day, although 77,317,453 people have already voted, which is almost half of the total turnout in 2020. So many early
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I hadn't focused on how most gun violence victims are men - over 80% in the US. There has been discussion in the US recently about how boys and young men are finding it more difficult to succeed and that it isn't fair to lump all males into the category of "oppressor". Gender roles oppress everybody, and capitalism oppresses everybody who has to work for a living.
There are a lot of discussions online about our election, of course, and yesterday I was reading an exchange between somebody who called Democrats "center-right" and somebody who loyally supports Democrats because of LGBTQ rights, especially same-sex marriage. I've long felt that instead of focusing on the benefits of marriage that we should focus on benefits for EVERYBODY. For example, a lot of LGBTQ people wanted marriage so they could join their employed spouse's health insurance. Why can't we have government health insurance for EVERYBODY, regardless of marriage? And with all the other benefits given to spouses, why can't we just let a person designate another ( ... )
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For 1 women who dies through a violent act, count, maybe, 10 men (don't know how many children to include) who get killed and nobody gives a fuck or thinks "hey, if every day, 10 people lose their lives here because of violence or theft, then we are a horrible society ( ... )
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