I’ve noticed that when you want a question answered it’s best to put your own answer in a comment and let the post only be describing or clarifying the question. When you put a question and your answer together in the post, the question reads more rhetorical since you’ve already given “the answer”, and your answer will be what people discuss rather than giving their own answers.

My sexist stereotype that needs to stop is that men are not good with kids, or unsafe.

I want to see more men playing with kids, being handed strangers kids to hold at gatherings, men hugging and cuddling kids. It’s no more suspicious or odd for a man to enjoy and appreciate and be caring with children (not just his own) than it is for a woman.

I have no qualms asking a strange child if they want help if I see them struggling (seeming lost, trying to reach something, scared of the escalator, whatever), and I want men to feel equally comfortable stepping in without being afraid of what people might think they’re up to… Because people need to stop thinking men are up to something when they are clearly trying to have a positive impact.

I think there are different words depending on WHY you think you shouldn’t share your inner thoughts and feelings.

Huh. I tend to interpret “deep feelings that one feel like they shouldn’t share”, to be feelings that are heavy for others to hear and risk affecting them negatively/emotionally in turn. Like depression, shame, disgust, suicidal ideation, anxiousness, hopelessness, anger or betrayal. People might not want to share for fear of illiciting sadness, pity, shame, worry, or withdrawal in the listener.

What different associations we have learned to make.

I have no hard and fast rule for this, it really depends. Some things are a hard no, others I play fast and loose with.

Or something like Snot Flickerman, am I right?

Unless that’s your current name… In which case I’ve really put my foot in my mouth.

This question made me actually go into settings, and I can sort automatically by new instead of have to resort every time I open! Thanks!

There’s a setting to sort comments to, on Voyager at least.

Are you American left, southern Europe left, eastern Europe left, or northern Europe left?

Just checking.

For how I use it, I recommend just getting a classic analog watch… I had a pretty cool one as a child with Bugs Bunny as a background. It was neat.

I like checking my pulse for fun and use the alarm for reminders during the day on my smart watch, but that’s all the extra features I still use out of all the extras. It’s a Garmin.

I got a smart watch a while back. Had a lot of fun setting up workout routines, tracking my run, measuring my activity and sleep, putting in reminders for water and movement, setting alarms, journaling my period, syncing music to headphones, connecting calls from my phone etc.

Then I got bored with running and stopped logging in online to transfer my data, got annoyed with all the reminders that always popped up at the wrong time, turned off bluetooth and wifi within a week because it drained both phone and watch on battery, so no longer connected to headphones or phone, and of course I quickly forgot all about tracking periods etc because I had to turn on wifi and sync to do so, and figured out the sleep tracking was bogus.

I still use it all the time, to check the time without pulling out my phone and risk getting distracted. It’s great to have this technology that shows the time right there on your wrist!

Kinda annoying to have to charge it weekly but well worth it for keeping the phone tucked away safely. I even finally started automatically checking my wrist instead of reaching for the phone when needing the time. Pretty neat!

Nah, I’ll call without warning “just to chat”… or because I get frustrated trying to make plans over text.

But I get anxious and/or annoyed when my own phone rings without warning, and might not even pick up haha.

Yeah, I’m fully hypocritical in this regard. I’ll call people randomly “just to chat” with no notice haha.

Only if you want people to remember it.

I prefer calling people to texting them.

But I also don’t like being called.

I guess those are my two wolves.

All good examples in comments, but in this case it’s Swedish. And if not by god then I’ll forsake it.

Swedish. I have family there so I visit a lot, but I’m not completely fluent.

Europe.

I’m very close with my mom, I call her interchangeably her name or “mom”. My friends know her and I speak of her often at work and in general because we hang out a lot, so most people have met her and/or know her well by her actual name.

I am not as close with my dad and call him dad most of the time, unless trying to get his attention - he is very bad at reacting or responding to anything but his name if he isn’t listening fully. I mostly spend time with him in family situations, unlike my mom who I consider friend as well as family.

It’s not the most common to call your parents by their name here, but it’s not super unusual or disrespectful either.

One of my languages has three genders for living creatures, and two genders for items. Those genders are all different from each other: humans and other living beings are male/female/living neutral, things are item neutral/item neutral. An item neutral plural is also used for groups of living beings, but not for all groups of items.

One item neutral singular can in some instances be used for a living being regardless of their gender. The other item neutral would be insulting if used about living beings, and especially dehumanising to humans (wish someone had told me this sooner).

I have no idea when to use which item neutral. Locals keep correcting me or almost imperceptibly wincing when I get it wrong, so when I want to sound more fluent I just use the item plural for singulars as well - it seems less annoying for some reason.

Oh, and for one of the item neutrals, if you accidentally use the other item neutral it means the plural of the first one. Kill me now, lol.

Good to know! I’ll just not let any phones into any washing machines while traveling, to avoid grammatical confusion. I’ll wash my phone when I get home instead.

It all comes from organized crime. It finances incredible amounts of violence and slavery and corruption. Took me a while to face up to that fact, but eventually I couldn’t ignore it.

So I’m strictly alcoholic now.