That women who don't shave their legs and underarms are gross and unhygienic.
A couple of years ago I discovered that the hygiene argument for shaving was originally aimed at men with beards, and with right. Before modern hygiene standards, many men had overgrown beards with food crumbs and dirt caught in them - truly disgusting. So when razor companies wanted to expand their market, they managed to convince everyone that visible body hair on women is also gross, which coincided timing wise with women first starting to wear short skirts. Somehow today, it's still acceptable for modern men to have beards and their hygiene is never questioned, only their poor sensitive skin from daily shaving or hiding a weak chin, whereas an unshaven woman remains gross.
Despite knowing this intellectually, and accepting that men don't shave their underarms, I haven't (yet) managed to stop shaving my underarms, not even in winter when no-one other than my husband (who doesn't care) would know. I can't stop feeling that it's unhygienic and a trap for sweat.
My dad had COPD, which also increases the CO2 levels in the blood. His body was able to adapt to the gradual increase as his illness progressed, the problems arose when he had even the mildest illness, causing a rapid spike. His body couldn't adapt fast enough and suddenly he'd be on oxygen but still asphyxiating. It was awful.
Spreadsheets can do that and you can set them up to automate a lot of the work. You need to be very good with your software though - it's too complex for the majority of users.
You also risk that someone is either discouraged / overwhelmed and gives up, or spends all their time learning to automate data manipulation instead of budgeting, or that they make an error and don't realise.
Automating that data manipulation is very valuable and the main benefit I find to budgeting software.
That said, I've set up my budgeting in excel because I do know what I'm doing and I haven't found software that is flexible enough for my needs yet 🤣
There has to be a massive overlap in the Meta communities but even so, they've probably got half the world's population feeding them data. That's pretty terrifying.
I'm doing my part adding reviews to Mapy but it's pretty empty in my part of the world.
Also, I have mixed feelings about putting reviews in another closed system. Ideally there would be a FOSS review system based on open street maps that all map apps connected and contributed to. I'm not a developer or a multi-millionaire invester though, so ¯\(ツ)/¯
I think that many people (not only men) believed that having women's rights legally enshrined would be all that was required. You have the same rights now, so surely any failures must be because you're doing something wrong (like the whole bs lean-in idea).
The reality has proven to be far more difficult. True equality requires a fundamental shift in how society thinks about women, which requires effort from each individual.
Discovering and changing your internalised biases is hard work, the kind people often need therapy for. Having to do that when it means recognising and acknowledging your personal privilege is even harder. Add in pressure to fit in with your peers and it can quickly become something you'd rather just avoid. That's a very normal human reaction. In order to overcome this, women have had to basically scream each message from the rooftops until it finally sank in, and the internal changes started.
However, screaming things from rooftops means some people will feel bombarded, while others are likely exhausted, feeling like "I changed thinking x and y, what more do you want from me? I'm doing my best, why isn't it enough?", and, again, respond by avoiding the topic.
Tldr, it's hard work for no immediate benefit to the person doing the work, possibly even negative consequences socially. Who wouldn't want to avoid that? Also some people are exhausted from the work they've already done.
That women who don't shave their legs and underarms are gross and unhygienic.
A couple of years ago I discovered that the hygiene argument for shaving was originally aimed at men with beards, and with right. Before modern hygiene standards, many men had overgrown beards with food crumbs and dirt caught in them - truly disgusting. So when razor companies wanted to expand their market, they managed to convince everyone that visible body hair on women is also gross, which coincided timing wise with women first starting to wear short skirts. Somehow today, it's still acceptable for modern men to have beards and their hygiene is never questioned, only their poor sensitive skin from daily shaving or hiding a weak chin, whereas an unshaven woman remains gross.
Despite knowing this intellectually, and accepting that men don't shave their underarms, I haven't (yet) managed to stop shaving my underarms, not even in winter when no-one other than my husband (who doesn't care) would know. I can't stop feeling that it's unhygienic and a trap for sweat.
Edit: typo
My dad had COPD, which also increases the CO2 levels in the blood. His body was able to adapt to the gradual increase as his illness progressed, the problems arose when he had even the mildest illness, causing a rapid spike. His body couldn't adapt fast enough and suddenly he'd be on oxygen but still asphyxiating. It was awful.
Do you perhaps mean ~2070 (50 years after the end of the study data date range)? I mean, both are really scary, the one just gives us a tad more time.
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Thanks. I know this method but I've never tried doing it without looking. Sounds like I'm doing it too slowly, something for me to practice.
Wait, how do you thread a needle without looking?
Ugh, fell for the herring
Spreadsheets can do that and you can set them up to automate a lot of the work. You need to be very good with your software though - it's too complex for the majority of users.
You also risk that someone is either discouraged / overwhelmed and gives up, or spends all their time learning to automate data manipulation instead of budgeting, or that they make an error and don't realise.
Automating that data manipulation is very valuable and the main benefit I find to budgeting software.
That said, I've set up my budgeting in excel because I do know what I'm doing and I haven't found software that is flexible enough for my needs yet 🤣
There has to be a massive overlap in the Meta communities but even so, they've probably got half the world's population feeding them data. That's pretty terrifying.
I didn't know that about Swan boats.
I'm doing my part adding reviews to Mapy but it's pretty empty in my part of the world.
Also, I have mixed feelings about putting reviews in another closed system. Ideally there would be a FOSS review system based on open street maps that all map apps connected and contributed to. I'm not a developer or a multi-millionaire invester though, so ¯\(ツ)/¯
I think that many people (not only men) believed that having women's rights legally enshrined would be all that was required. You have the same rights now, so surely any failures must be because you're doing something wrong (like the whole bs lean-in idea).
The reality has proven to be far more difficult. True equality requires a fundamental shift in how society thinks about women, which requires effort from each individual.
Discovering and changing your internalised biases is hard work, the kind people often need therapy for. Having to do that when it means recognising and acknowledging your personal privilege is even harder. Add in pressure to fit in with your peers and it can quickly become something you'd rather just avoid. That's a very normal human reaction. In order to overcome this, women have had to basically scream each message from the rooftops until it finally sank in, and the internal changes started.
However, screaming things from rooftops means some people will feel bombarded, while others are likely exhausted, feeling like "I changed thinking x and y, what more do you want from me? I'm doing my best, why isn't it enough?", and, again, respond by avoiding the topic.
Tldr, it's hard work for no immediate benefit to the person doing the work, possibly even negative consequences socially. Who wouldn't want to avoid that? Also some people are exhausted from the work they've already done.