This is a great example that illustrates how the left’s love for Islam actually makes perfect sense. Many don’t realize this, but Islam is incredibly longhoused. Some of its most brutal enforcers are middle aged mothers and aunties; hijab is both the ultimate act of female intrasexual competition - flattening the beauty hierarchy - as well as a tool for the neutralization of male sexuality.
You can see how this perfectly serves the goals of women on the left, who want to exert unilateral control over relations between the sexes at best or even end heterosexuality at worst. The uglification of women in popular media is a form of hijab, hiding male-enticing beauty away “for women’s protection” and punishing male sexual attraction. These illiberal photo guidelines that feel like they’re from a conservative country are another example of the left’s adoption of virtual hijab as a tool for female sociopolitical dominance.
You might think, “Doesn’t this contradict the sexual vulgarity & immodesty promoted by the left in the West?” Superficially, it might seem that way, but the popular left’s love of prostitution is/was a stepping stone in the transition from liberal hedonistic democracy to asexual authoritarian regime. They were seeking to “desexualize” the female body through exposure (while also exerting control over the male psyche: just because a woman is scantily clad in public doesn’t mean you have permission to think demonic sexual thoughts about her!). The argument of topless feminists in France is that boobs should evoke zero sexual feelings; they’re just a body part. The argument of OnlyFans feminists is that their body is a tool for extracting resources from men. None of this actually has to do with the promotion of sexual freedom.
It’s all a game of flattening the SMV of women while exerting power over men through sexuality, and the tides are naturally shifting towards female-enforced asexuality (rather than female-enforced promiscuity). This is clear in the rhetoric of online Western feminists, who post more and more frequently about how scared they are of sex, how they avoid it (occasionally by going as far as to transition into men themselves). In this view, a feminist hijabi is completely rational, and perhaps even the perfected manifestation of an anti-male ideology.
Do not think that the rise of Islam in the West will mean the return of the patriarchy. No, it will mutate with our broken gender relations to form a novel, putrid mixture of sexual communism and repression. The future is asexual hijabis, finger wagging you to death
We get it - not everyone’s a roundabout fan.
But traditional intersections have 32 vehicle conflict points.
Roundabouts? Just 8. That means fewer crashes, fewer injuries, and safer roads.
You don’t have to love them. But the facts speak for themselves.
#RoundaboutSafety
@midwestern_ope Also in Michigan the auto industry employee discounts, road conditions, and "wealth" of Oakland County makes everyone drive massive trucks and full size SUVs, moreso than the rest of the country (that I have visited).
@midwestern_ope Michigan, the road rage and obliviousness is a huge component.
Illinois are weavers, but mostly respectful.
Ohio I've haven't had any issues with. I think the turnpike gives em more lane hierarchy knowledge than the rest.
My anecdotal observations, ymmv.