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    My poor laptop doesn't do SL photos very well, but it is all I've got. I'm rarely in SL these days, but when I am, it is often at one of Da5id's sets, which is where I am now. This, me with drink in hand, and with the hostess (who def gets tipped ).
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    Good to see you, Coffee.
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    Wasn't there already a mobile app for SL that failed miserably? I forget. I didn't know they were working on a new one. I'm so out of the loop, which is why I returned here a few days ago (I have to keep reminding myself that is why I returned, because my head is otherwise screaming, "whhhhhhyyyyyy?"). I don't have a FOMO. I have no hope or fear for such a thing because I will never use it. I would think they could put their resources towards other things, but then again, attracting new users, a mobile app might do that. Dunno dun care?
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    @Scylla Rhiadra, in anticipation of an extended trip to Scotland, I have been reading a book by an English anthropologist. The title is "Watching the English" and in it she explains the peculiar dance of the English in social situations. I posit that Canadians are like this, but to a lesser degree. And so to respond to you demurring and deferring, let me demure and defer back! (Very English in that! "No you..." "No after YOU..." No, after YOU... " etc. ) I kinda brought the kink into it somewhere before you did, so there's that. Yeah, please don't conflate me and Bagnu on so many levels please don't. And, yes, as I quipped (yesterday? today?) "people" are getting dangerously close to having a discussion in the General Discussion Forum and we can't have that now can we?" def a peeve
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    Dammit. How can I both agree and disagree with you at the same time? I think our views on this have very little daylight between them, but there is that sliver. Peeve? I agree strongly that you can't "liberate" women if you give individual women a checklist of YOUR approved behaviors. Your examples of a head scarf is on point. In my later post I did mention "take the kink out of it" because that is muddying the waters a tad. I disagree with your use of the word role-play but that again may be hair splitting semantics. As further example of "this group" in question. I don't agree with them. I wouldn't be on their sim. I would wonder about women who do but respect their rights to choose, and assume that they have given informed consent based on the very public announcement of the groups raison d'etre. What I find personally kinky isn't anyone else's business except perhaps one...
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    Heh. I get to disagree with Da5id in public. (I'm so repressed... ) Basically, in this VERY specific example of that VERY specific group you posted, this is my opinion: That group explains VERY specifically what they are about. They welcome women who believe in these things. If you are a woman who joins such a group, you should know very well what you are getting into, and so shouldn't complain IF you are treated in such a way. Take kink out of it. It doesn't matter. If that is what people want to do, they have full informed consent, then... who cares? IF it is in the PRIVACY of a bedroom or a group... IF those members then take things OUTSIDE of that group, foist their beliefs on others, unwillingly, then the fault is squarely on them. They are wrong, offensive, etc. This holds true in my belief system (your rights end at the tip of my nose sort of thing) whether it is gender, race, etc. An anti-whatever-race group is loathsome, and I'm sure I would not want to associate with them, but if it is only within the confines of that very well delineated (fictional) group, then...? But take it to public slurs etc? And yes, I can hear you about to make the point that people with "those kinds" of mindsets HAVE to bring them along to everyday life, and I would have a hard time arguing that. Sort of like the people who say they can separate RL and SL (yet it is the same person at the monitor). I get that. That also is a fine line to walk, and I'm not sure any do it well. But when you bring a kink aspect into it, there IS a nuance that doesn't get addressed by the broader brush. Some how I feel today is: Seicher Isn't Clearly Communicating Day. (peeved at that)
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    PS... I am on my phone which sucks at this posting stuff, and so I am answering too briefly. Misogyny is not kink. Not in the systemic way you and the originating poster meant. But some people use misogyny as a type of personalized kink, and I would say who are we to judge something like that, although way too many people do such judgement. Physical abuse is not a kink either, but pain can be. The nuances are there and are important. I'd be standing next to you in a protest against systemic misogyny. I would hope you would stand next to on some protest about the right for women to have personal freedom, even if that freedom is not your cuppa tea.
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    Nope, I didn't say role play and I didn't mean rp. I meant what I said about mutual consent being the key point.
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    Unless you are in other people's heads and hearts, you can't know that. I find that statement personally hurtful.
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    I'm assuming you're referring to the misogynistic group author and not to me. I hope.
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    oooh kaaaay I feel like I'm being tarred with a brush that isn't appropriate, but so be it. Label me as you wish, Sid. I know my intent and my mind. For the record I don't think I've ever boycotted anyone's products due to a spelling or grammar flaw. Depending on how bad it is, and its end meaning in "real" English, I may roll my eyes or laugh. If it is so bad and it is in a technical writing situation where it makes my ability to use the product difficult, I get frustrated and THEN I MIGHT boycott because then they made the product worthless to me. Also for the record, I don't understand your upset at all, because you are very fluent, very easy to read, and that's in a conversational situation here in the Forum, and so see my previous comments regarding admiration and awe for people who can do that. (I've made similar comments in this place for years.) The comments made recently in regards to ESL grammar are all about a public notice, a short one, that could have easily been made without some GLARING mistakes. But again... if you wish to be a bigot against Americans and ascribe me with things that are not my feelings, meaning, intent, then by all means. I'm just surprised by that, is all.
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    Read again, Sid. You possibly missed my point, although since you quoted the right spot, maybe not? I'm not very judgey about "proper English" in places like the forum, IM, local, email, etc etc etc. In those situations I am amazed at how fluent so many people are. I AM judgey when it is a public notice, meant for a (presumably) international audience. If it is a notecard for your product, when 75% of your clients speak English. Etc. If I were a content creator and for some reason were targeting a Japanese crowd, I would make darn sure if I was attempting to speak to them in Japanese it would be 100% good Japanese. I know what you mean about SOME native speakers being Holier-Than-Thou about grammar, especially in conversational situations. I haven't noticed Americans being worse than other native speakers, but there are more Americans in SL. ETA: In fact the Holier folks that spring immediately to MY mind are all some variant of UK. For many people, myself included, it is the access to so many people of all languages that is one of the biggest draws of places like SL. If you read anything other than "official things written in English should be proofread" then you misread what I was saying.
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    I'm learning so many things today (some things I can even type in public!). SSDD and now "kinderwhore." Never heard that genre, nor "soft goth"... and here 31.84% of my clothing could be considered goth. Nice look, if "nice" is NOT an insult here.
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    Two that can be read many different ways, with various intonations (intended): Out of my mind. I am your alt.
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    Peeve: Posers. Of all ilks. Especially fake Virtue Signalers.
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    If consensual then NOT harmful. A concept many cannot grasp. One man's trash is another man's treasure. etc (That came close to being a haiku.)
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    So apparently someone is out of their "I am a submissive" mode now. Hard to keep track.
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    I had to look up that acronym. I've heard the phrase before, just never seen the acronym. I learned something today (ouch) and am so using this. So applicable, to SL and other things.
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    Boy oh boy, is that very much sim dependent. ETA: I recognize you said "appropriate sim." I select my adult sims with care. I will abide by rules if I need to be at certain places, for example one huge old sim demands that ALL subs, regardless, sit on the floor and/or kneel. I will abide by that, but it grates on me and I only attend certain events at that sim and very rarely. I am one person's sub, not the entire grid's sub. So if someone doesn't ask me nicely on an adult sim, I would be peeved. If someone treated me badly on an adult sim, I might report them. But again, context is everything. If for some reason I found myself to be willingly on a hardcore misogynistic sim (like there was some speaker event I wanted to hear), I would grit my teeth and abide. All in all, adult sim or not, manners generally count.
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    True peeve: When I returned here a few days ago, it seemed like my " block view" of certain posters had been reset. Or did I do that on my way out before? Hm... no, because there are still one or two people showing as blocked. I haven't been arsed to go look or reset because I'm also a big proponent of the concept that "scrolling works." However, today it has been proven to me that my settings are borked. Now I have to go to all of the trouble of pushing buttons and stuff and I don't wanna. So maybe I won't. But peeve... In a corollary, I think someone may have blocked me recently, and I'm rather amused by that, but even more so, relieved. My postings have recently been much easier without having to deal... ya know? Mixed feelings and all.
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    Agreed. I'm always amazed at the fluency of many here who are ESL. I stink at languages. But still... if not fluent-fluent there ARE people who are fluent to proofread copy before sending it out into public. So few avail themselves of that simple thing. And while the group in question reads like ESL (especially "womens"), it may not be. Have you read some things put out by so-called native speakers? Eek. ETA: For me I am far less judgey of places where you "type on the fly" like here in the Forums, both for native and ESL folk. In THOSE cases, my admiration for your level of proficiency is intensified. But things like group notices, descriptions, omg product inserts, and other things? Get a proofreader.
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    Possibly, but doubtful. Incels are an online subculture of people who define themselves as unable to get a romantic or sexual partner despite desiring one. The group doesn't read like that to me.
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