At the same time, we can’t expect every grocery store worker, police officer, air traffic controller, and truck driver, and everyone else, to be off simultaneously on the same day.

Here in BC, in Canada, you’re just guaranteed four hours off to vote. I think that with easier mail-in-voting (also easy to do here) would help you guys a lot.

Good luck everyone. I’d post resources you can use but I’d rather no-one get used to using those, now. Take care of each other, we’re all going to need the help.

I think we need to use the ‘bootlicker’ word more, because we need to point out these are people stanning for rich people. So it’s some combination of ‘self-made slave,’ ‘cruel,’ and ‘tactless.’

Either way, it’s like watching someone elses kid on the playground eating cat shit out of the sand box.

Christ, Kaboom is embarrassing. Just on every level – as a man, as a person, as someone on lemmy, as a person who making jokes, just everything. God he’s embarrassing.

Personally, I would imagine that the real issue with THIS ARTICLE is the picture they chose to forefront it. Why would they choose that one

A woman was raped over decades by 51 men and your issue is the article has a picture you don’t like as the opening image?

Well the idea with protests like this is to shine so bright a light on it that we force governments to act. If we do that enough, we can make this happen less and less to everyone.

And so, what’s the course of action? To give all men some sterilization treatment?

Who the hell said that?

The case has put into the spotlight a growing problem with rape in France. The number of sexual assault victims in France increased by 33% in 2021 and nearly doubled from 2017, according to a government report. Women made up 89% of rape victims, while 96% of sexual violence perpetrators were men.

But out of almost 35,000 rapes recorded that year, just over 10% were prosecuted, and fewer than 5% resulted in a conviction. And the vast majority of rape or attempted rape victims − nine out of ten − never even file a complaint, the report found.

The plan is to make it so the system actually helps the victims. That’s the idea. These protests bring light to the issue.

And, I promise you, the real numbers are probably scarily equal, just like with domestic abuse. Because men are definitely taught to never come forward with those.

Cool guess, stats say you’re wrong.

But even if the true ratio was 1:50, what’s the solution?

See above.

Seriously this is fucking embarrassing, you’re creating constant strawman arguments without any basis of anything reported.

Sorry you’re getting this reaction. I am a man who was abused by women and all the support groups lead to me taking to a room full of women about it. Do men come forward less often? Yes. It would have to be like 1 in 100 men coming forward for it to be equal. I’ve had one other male friend who has been assaulted, but over half of the women I’ve been friends with have.

If it helps anyone with that being anecdotal, you have to look at the statistics of who is doing it: people in power. Just that alone means more men simply have the opportunity. Add to that that men are told sex is power, and that men who have sex often are virile, whereas women who do are slut shamed. It’s getting better, but still far off.

Anyway I’ll take the downvotes, but every statistic we have shown is that men are the primary antagonist in the vast majority of sexual assault against both men and women.

Your eyes are stunning. You are absolutely slaying with that smile.

Because she’s a woman and a Green candidate.

Rustad: “British Columbians are NOT facing an existential threat from our changing climate. It isn’t a crisis. In fact, our changing climate is not the most pressing issue facing us in BC or around the world.”

Voters: Oh, okay, sure thing boss.

Good luck all. I hope you don’t have anyone in your life who needs social services.

Don’t forget: even if you’re the lowest of the low, nobody can take away your whiteness, so as long as you’re a racist, you’re not actually at the bottom of the ladder - the black dentist is still black, and thus worthless.

This also applies to their misogyny. You may be the poorest of the poor and white, but you’re a man, so you’re better than all women.

Imagine having that kind of free time, goddamn.

What’s up with the pro-Con downvoting here? Every post I see on British Columbia about a Con candidate in any negative way gets immediately downvoted.

And news articles like this really aren’t helping anybody.

Gods below that link is brutal.

I’m legitimately afraid. We’re on track to vote in a federal Con government that wouldn’t even admit climate change exists. Now after an at least partial recovery from the last time we had decades of Con governing in BC–openly corrupt members and all–we’re going to vote for their even more right-wing cousins?

It’s just so goddamn embarrassing.

I hope all the volunteering does help but I just feel like maybe we deserve this. They’ll make everything worse faster and we can all lose our houses to flooding and fire, and our parents and grandparents to heatstroke. Sell off our tree cover to increase flooding and make the wild fires even worse. Prove to the world that we would rather die on a larger pile of gold when our AC fails than work to fix anything for our kids or their kids.

This is so embarrassing. I’ve never been more disappointed to be from BC than to see the BC Conservatives neck-and-neck with the best government* we’ve had in a lifetime.

(*yes they suck in various ways, and we all know how much worse the Cons would be and the BCLibs were.)

Thank you, god that original one was an awful read.

I’m sorry you’re going through that, man, that’s awful.