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Political diaspora.
Tuiteo en cuatro idiomas, dar foarte rar.
«Mal nommer un objet, c'est ajouter au malheur de ce monde»
#corresponsabilidad
#SharedCustody

[B.R.R.C. (și la gheață) @brrc_slg]

@Rothmus 😁
Might stem from some misunderstood / badly translated sarcasm – there's the Romanian quip „he was so broke he couldn't afford to cross the street”, which confirms that crossing is free.

[B.R.R.C. (și la gheață) @brrc_slg]

@anishmoonka @andrewdoyle_com I started suspecting that listening to music in the old „sequential” manner (tape / LP) also activates the human brain in a different way compared to the “digital”way, menu-driven, anything-always-available.
No touches, no skipping, no FFWD button. One choice every 45 minutes

[TheTinMen @TheTinMenBlog]

Can we please stop with the 'it was legal for a husband to rape his wife' bullshit?

Yes. Marital rape was not a specific crime until 1991, meaning a 'husband raping his wife' would be prosecuted under a different law – typically ABH or assault.

Obviously, this is still not okay, but it's very different to it being 'legal' to rape your wife.

FYI –

A man couldn't be legally 'raped' by anybody until 1995, and still cannot be raped by any woman, wife or otherwise, in any capacity, still TO THIS DAY.

You are harboring more outrage for a 35-year-old grievance that you completely misunderstand, than you do for an entirely real one, that exists in UK law right now.

Also whilst we're at it –

It was married women who were often unable to open bank accounts without their husband's signature, not 'women'.

This also meant that, under coverture, the husbands to those women were legally liable for her debts, including debts accrued before even being married; with the men often prosecuted, and even held financially hostage by said wives.

History is not black and white.

It was a mixed bag of privilege and disadvantage, felt in many ways, by both men and women.

We don't need this lazy, feminist-revisionist caricature of history, stinking up social media with yet more mindless, inaccurate outrage.

Read a book on history, or step out the conversation.

Thanks.

[B.R.R.C. (și la gheață) @brrc_slg]

@KoYasEphraimite @RebeccaCNReid People who grew up in larger families are generally good team players, easy going, positive.
In order to become selfless and generous an only child needs two dozen cousins or a miracle.

[B.R.R.C. (și la gheață) @brrc_slg]

@iosefinapascal They don't really care about the common people, it's the anti-American hate that unites them with the Iranian „elites”.
Same as Podemos, the crypto-communist Spanish party.

[B.R.R.C. (și la gheață) @brrc_slg]

@iosefinapascal Să nu mă întrebi de primul milion, nici de primii 7km de ... drum.

[B.R.R.C. (și la gheață) @brrc_slg]

@iosefinapascal Maică-sa nu e în poză pentru că îngrijește bătrâni în Italia iar taică-su e la construcții în Spania.
La fel ca părinții oricărui tânăr din Europa.

[B.R.R.C. (și la gheață) @brrc_slg]

@adyg1979 @itmorar Nu știu ce datorie publică are Rusia pe cap de supus, dar noi suntem peste 10k. Și mergem în ritmul de +3-400 EUR/cap pe lună (cifre 2024).
@grok, care e datoria publică a Rusiei pe cap de locuitor?

[B.R.R.C. (și la gheață) @brrc_slg]

@adrianagiurgiu Te dor dinții... dar e fake news, inflația a fost mai mult de 10%.

Adevărul e că după cum (nu) gândește nu pare să fi fost capabil să ia bac-u' în anii '90.

[Dad Matters @dadmatters_uk]

🚨Why male (and female) violence is mostly a female problem 🔥— Part I

The now-viral question:

“If hiking alone in the woods, would you rather encounter a bear or a man?”

produced a striking result; young women overwhelmingly chose the bear.

As someone who works in risk management, this response struck me as profoundly irrational. A 300kg apex predator with claws and teeth versus an 75kg male primate?

If this preference were sincere, something had gone badly wrong in how risk is being perceived.

So I went looking for context.

Using Australian Bureau of Statistics homicide data (2022) as my primary case study, Australia recorded 377 homicides: 259 male victims, 118 female. Of those, 26 were children, with boys more likely to be killed than girls.

Women accounted for just 11% of perpetrators, yet mothers were responsible for 50% of filicides (the remainder split between biological and step-fathers).

Removing child victims, adult female homicide averages roughly 2 deaths per week, equating to ~0.8 per 100,000 women. For comparison: the UK sits at ~0.6, the US ~1.2. Australia is neither exceptional nor uniquely dangerous. In absolute risk terms, homicide carries about the same fatality risk as crossing the road.

Context matters. Among Australian women aged 15–44, homicide ranks 13th as a cause of death. Suicide is first (7.97 per 100k), followed by drug overdose, road traffic accidents, and cancer. Homicide sits below congenital abnormalities and just above accidental drowning.

Crucially, 90% of female homicide victims are killed by someone they know, and ~60% by a current or former intimate partner. The risk of being killed by a random male stranger is vanishingly small.

Despite this, homicide dominates headlines in a way no other cause of female death does. We hear little about suicide, overdoses, or traffic fatalities, despite these being orders of magnitude more likely to kill women.

Why?

Because fear is being curated.

Australian homicide rates have fallen steadily for decades. Today is the safest period in Australian history. Law enforcement, courts, and genuine safeguarding reforms have worked. Yet media and activist narratives insist we are in the midst of a “femicide crisis”.

The data does not support this.

When challenged with these facts, women often respond: “It’s not just murder we fear, what about sexual violence?”

Fair question.

The 2021–22 Personal Safety Survey reports 22% of adult women have experienced sexual violence at some point in their lives. Men are not untouched: 1 in 16 (6.1%) report the same.

Sexual violence includes rape and non-penetrative assault. These numbers are serious and deserve attention, but again, context matters.

In 95% of cases, the perpetrator is known to the victim. Current and former partners are the primary offenders. Male strangers account for just ~5%. Alcohol and drugs are involved in over half of incidents.

Reported prevalence has risen since the 1990s, accelerating post-2016. Whether this reflects increased incidence or increased reporting is unclear, but Google Trends mirror this rise, suggesting awareness and reporting effects rather than an explosion of offending. We see further evidence in the UK where reports to the police of sexual assault have increased c.270% since 2010 while gross convictions have remained stable.

Once again, the bear, and the male stranger, are statistical red herrings.

Based on the evidence, the person most likely to harm a woman is herself (via suicide or overdose), followed by the man she has judged safe enough to partner with, not the unknown male in the woods.

Which raises the real question:

How did an entire generation of women become so catastrophically miscalibrated on risk?

Part 2 counties below…

[B.R.R.C. (și la gheață) @brrc_slg]

@bobbydtiktok Întreprinderi româno-sovietice.

[B.R.R.C. (și la gheață) @brrc_slg]

@bobbydtiktok Așa sună războiul hibrid.

[B.R.R.C. (și la gheață) @brrc_slg]

@whitenights_ro Zero surprize, presa a murit.

[B.R.R.C. (și la gheață) @brrc_slg]

@olgarusu “Hasta la victoria final” como decían los comunistas.
La victoria final será cuando el IMV llegará al 99% de la población, todo administrado por el 1% de aparatchiks en función del grado de sumisión de cada sujeto.

[B.R.R.C. (și la gheață) @brrc_slg]

@olgarusu Los chinos no van a poder copiar en 10 años lo que los franceses pueden regular en sólo una semana – y esto incluso sin gobierno.

[B.R.R.C. (și la gheață) @brrc_slg]

@whitenights_ro Pentru o clipă am crezut că era vorba de Nicușor Dan și Maia Sandu.

[B.R.R.C. (și la gheață) @brrc_slg]

@bobbydtiktok „Sâiii-Sâiii ?” e probabil pe post de un “Sorry ?”
Un președinte nu se căciulește repetând slugarnic și formula în diplomație este “I beg your pardon?”.
Ce cruce...

[B.R.R.C. (și la gheață) @brrc_slg]

@JohnAllsopp1692 @Suffragent_ He does have mental issues. Big ones, so his place is not among people.
There's nothing to defend here, having closed the asylums is not defendable.

[B.R.R.C. (și la gheață) @brrc_slg]

@voiculesti A omorât dar a și lăsat să trăiască.