not here. I checked the rules, posts here don’t have to be funny.

“I’d do it all day.”

this is exactly your problem, that you’re okay insulting people. You are bragging about not caring about others.

You care about your own feelings and want everyone to listen to only your feelings.

Insulting people or claiming that you wouldn’t mind being insulted doesn’t matter here, it’s that you’re hurting other people.

“as long as it applies to the situation/male I’m speaking with it’ll be business as usua”

that’s how definitions work, not people, not intention, not culture, and not objectification.

you can choose in your mind to believe that an insult is not insulting, but that doesn’t stop the insult from being insulting.

You are exclusively targeting women here.

You can attack gay people on the weekends and swear that you just like hitting people with bats, it has nothing to do with them being gay, but if you are exclusively targeting homosexuals, then you are attacking gay people, it doesn’t matter what your asserted beliefs are.

You can claim you don’t mean an insult as an insult, but if you use that insult, then you are insulting people.

You are hurting others despite what your feelings are.

“What about the term ladies.”

that is socially acceptable depending on the social group and your intentions.

you can say “punk” as a friendly jibe with a friend or you can call someone a punk in a bar and get yourself ostracized or even get your ass beat.

your problem with using “female” is that it’s used primarily as an objectifying term in casual conversation, so again, you can choose to claim an insult is not insulting, but that doesn’t negate the insult.

Your feelings do not negate the feelings of others.

When you use that term, you are insulting all women using a shorthand to show that you do not respect any woman as an equal person.

“street whore. Should that be shunned too?”

yes, “street whore” is another insulting term that should not be used to refer to half of the human race.

“we should just abolish English…”

that is an impractical and unrealistic solution to your specific bigotry.

There’s no reason to punish everyone for your selfish bigotry.

“I really do not understand these weird feelings…”

This is probably a symptom of focusing internally rather than on the community you are a part of.

Empathy is the key. If someone tells you how they would like to be treated, treat them that way.

If they tell you they would not like you to insult them, then don’t insult them.

You can choose to insult them if you want, but that doesn’t make you a revolutionary, just an asshole.

“hey follow some rule of feelings. It’s absurd.”

This is correct because it’s what you are insisting.

You are insisting that everyone follow your feelings alone and to ignore the feelings of everyone else.

Which is absurd.

“I doubt any male would find this offensive.”

nobody said they would.

"Call em males, they are afterall. "

go ahead, next time you see ir are talking about a man or men , say “hey, male” or “males like to…” see how they respond to what has become a derogatory, sexualized term for a person in casual conversation.

the demeaning objectification is why insecure men say “female” and men are not addressed as “males”.

thank you I was wondering about the public reaction to the mines closing, since it does seem like a good thing on its face, no you’re absolutely right that a problem doesn’t need to be handled the hardest way.

interesting to hear about the cycle coming around again with steel workers now.

that was a great write up and an appreciated explanation, have a good one!

damn thank you I really appreciate that explanation and will check out those videos.

I understand half of enough of that to know what you mean by context, and you really tied a lot of it together for me just now.

I don’t have tiktok so I’m sure I’m sitting out a lot of cultural tides at the moment.

wow, yes I appreciate you adding that context, that’s some important information to know

wow, that’s crazy. thanks for the video, i just watched it.

if thatchers goal was to close the mines, wouldn’t miners voluntarily not working play into that?

or does strike in this context mean general protest rather than specifically not working?

got it, thanks for the broad strokes and context

never heard of floptok, what’s that?

Sunless Sea

can one of the Brits lay out bullet points or just a short list of why Thatcher is so universally hated by the uk?

I really only know the memes and I’m finally curious about the substance.

thank you.

So excited for Season 3

on Hitler’s birthday. fancy that.

thanks for sharing.

why is that vine so funny?

I feel like a hundred other people could have done a hundred other videos with that same scene and it would not be as perfectly funny as that guy is.

sure, I love talking about it.

have a good one

same deal in China. some people will like your jokes and others won’t.

“no matter what it should always be acceptable to discuss a topic.”

This is probably where you’re running into trouble; rape victims are not into being blamed or mocked for getting raped, for example, and many people won’t appreciate someone offending or making other people uncomfortable unnecessarily.

you have the prerogative to choose your words and other people have the prerogative to judge your words.

to get back to your original comment, I can assure you that having a rough or even largely disagreeable personality is not going to stop you moving to, living or teaching in China or most other countries.

nah, that sort of pre-emptive dismissal is a symptom of thinking of “China” as some monocultural concept rather than a country the size of the US with five times as many people and ideas.

jokes are fine, but do people like your jokes in the US?

are your culturally indelicate jokes appreciated where you’re from?

“…you mean”

nope!

“…Europe is likely to have a higher average cost of living yhan the US”

it definitely doesn’t; the average European cost of living is much lower than in the US, especially in the context of traveling.

If you’re a native English speaker, the easiest thing to start teaching is English.

fundamental English for primary students, the school provides the curriculum, some training and an assistant in the classroom.

Teaching English doesn’t require any sort of credentials, although I recommend getting an accredited tefl certificate because they last for life and instantly boost your pay by 20% or more, as well as giving you some baseline information about teaching english.

dozens of countries want you to go teach English, english is a very in demand skill.

China has literally thousands of job listings by itself. Pretty much every other country in Asia, Africa, and Europe that is not primarily English speaking is looking for English teachers.

it really would be easier to list the countries that are not looking for English teachers.

there are dozens of countries, hundreds of websites and thousands of jobs waiting for an English teacher right now.

and the cost of living is so much lower that there will be instant financial relief.

check out the comments I wrote to the other people asking how teaching works in this post, I go in to a little more detail.

and feel free to ask me more questions.