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What a great experience! ❤️ crows
We often see birds (robins, jays, mockingbirds, & most often crows) chasing hawks. Crowdsourcing safety.
But the smaller birds sometimes do the same to crows, & robins chase off jays. As you prob know, some larger birds will eat eggs/nestlings. We ❤️ them all, tho.
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Ah, you need a squirrel baffle on the feeder pole. They work very well! WBU sells great feeder cages, too.
My spouse has made a game of tossing peanuts to the squirrels & blue jays & grackles while we sit outside. No strife here. Except when the jays drop them in the gutter 🙃
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how morally bankrupt do you have to be to sell the future of all life on this planet
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Oh, crap, I thought for sure I wouldn't be triggered bc I'm generally ok & getting better with bugs, but NOT earwigs.
To this day I have never gotten over the childhood trauma of you know what scene in Wrath of Khan, and earwigs carry that stigma for me. I'll never forgive them.
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I get it that context is important re a person's intentions. Can't we also agree that there's no scoreboard involved ("oh, I count in more than 1 minority group so my opinion is more important"), so just bc 1 feels ok w/ a gendered stereotype, it's ok if another doesn't & maybe isn't just a bully
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Women have always been pressured into accepting misogyny, repeating it, laughing along with the "joke" to be the cool grl who's not "over-sensitive." I don't f*ing care if anyone thinks I'm cool. An ugly stereotype is ugly no matter who it targets. She's smart & creative enough to find a better way.
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Ah, but I'd say the same as I did if the issue was perpetuating ugly stereotypes about gay or Jewish or brown people (none if which I am), but would you say the same then?
I mean, people can disagree, but I can express my opinion without insulting anyone. You, apparently, can't.
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When people like you aren't the butt of the joke, it's easy to brush it off as unimportant. I've spent a lifetime brushing off gendered slights & implications, and it's exhausting. She's a creative person - I'd think she could punch up without also punching down and perpetuating this crap as well.
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yes, she did - without perpetuating ugly stereotypes. I'm disappointed.
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So misogyny is fine as long as it hits misogynistic men too?
Women get to be collateral to your bullshit memes?
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yes, thank you, my reaction to it, as well. It's been really disappointing. Don't perpetuate ugly stereotypes. Call out the man-babies for what they are - immature & narcissistic
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yes, in the same way that men are assertive and women are strident, men are authoritative and women are bossy, men have ambition and women are pushy.
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Excellent point. I've been frustrated by some of the responses to the rich man-baby fight, referring to them as girls (AOC, for example - very disappointing). As if the best way to denigrate them & their spat is to refer to & reinforce stereotypes of female behavior.