So as a widower of almost 3 years I am ready to start dating to be in a relationship. Online dating sites seem to be about 75% Christian Conservative. When I see that this is what I picture. Am I grossly mistaken?

Christianity wiped out women's history

She was 57 years old. White hair. No carefully managed image. No media training designed to make her more palatable. Just thirty years of accumulated knowledge and the calm, unhurried authority of a woman who had spent her life mastering her subject. She sat on a BBC panel, answered questions about immigration and politics, cited evidence, made arguments — and then went home. The next morning, her inbox looked like a crime scene. Her name is Mary Beard — Cambridge professor, classicist, one of the most respected scholars of ancient Rome and Western civilisation alive. And the internet had decided that a woman speaking with quiet authority on television needed to be punished for it. The messages were not criticism. They were not debate. They were rape threats. Death threats. Coordinated campaigns of personal destruction targeting her appearance, her age, her voice — anything that could be used to remind her that spaces like the one she had just occupied were not meant for her. Most people would have gone quiet. Mary Beard went further in. She did what scholars do when they find a pattern that disturbs them: she followed it backward. Through decades. Through centuries. Through millennia. All the way back to some of the oldest texts in Western civilisation. And she found it had always been there. In Homer's Odyssey — one of the foundational works of Western literature, nearly three thousand years old — there is a scene that most readers pass over without registering its quiet violence. Penelope comes downstairs and asks the poet to sing a different song. Her own son, Telemachus, cuts her off. He orders her back to her room and tells her plainly: speech is the business of men. She goes. Mary Beard read that scene and recognized it immediately. Not as ancient history. As a pattern. In ancient Rome, women who dared to speak in public were not described as orators or thinkers. They were described as noise — disorderly sound, something that did not deserve to be called language or argument. Their voices were not speech. Their thoughts were not thoughts. In the medieval world, women who claimed public authority were labeled as witches. Elizabeth I — Queen of England, ruler of a nation — had to rhetorically reshape herself into something masculine just to be taken seriously as the leader of her own country. The silencing of women who speak with authority was not invented by social media. It was not a modern pathology or a cultural accident. It was built deliberately, over centuries, into the very foundations of how Western civilisation defined who gets to speak, what authority sounds like, and who is allowed to take up space in public life. Mary Beard had found something important. In 2017, she published Women & Power: A Manifesto — short enough to read in an afternoon, substantial enough to reframe everything you thought you understood about why this keeps happening. Her argument was precise and devastating. The problem is not that women lack the ability to lead. The problem is that the model of leadership itself — the template for what public authority looks, sounds, and feels like — was built by men over centuries and has never been redesigned. When a woman enters public life and doesn't fit that template, she is not failing. The template was never built for her. It was built specifically to exclude her, and it has been doing exactly that, efficiently and continuously, for three thousand years. The solution, Beard argued, is not to teach women to perform power the way men have always performed it. The solution is to dismantle and rebuild the very concept of what power is allowed to look like. She kept teaching. She kept writing. She kept appearing on television — white-haired, unhurried, carrying her decades of authority without performing it, without packaging it for comfort, without apologizing for it. The threats continued. But other messages began arriving too. Letters from women and girls who had spent their entire lives feeling that every door was slightly too narrow, every table slightly too high, every room slightly reluctant to make space for them. Women who had spent years wondering what was wrong with them — why they couldn't quite fit, couldn't quite belong, couldn't quite be taken seriously no matter how much they knew or how hard they worked. They read the book and understood, perhaps for the first time, that nothing had ever been wrong with them. The room had been designed without them in mind. That is not a personal failing. That is a three-thousand-year-old architectural decision. And one Cambridge professor with white hair and a calm voice — who refused to go quiet when the internet told her to — spent her career documenting it, naming it, and handing that knowledge to everyone who needed to hear it. Telemachus told Penelope that speech was the business of men. He was wrong then. He is still wrong now. And Mary Beard has three thousand years of evidence to prove it. via The Inspireist #FeministFriday #HERstory

In the last 31 hours i earned a massive 9 followers, we are so back 🥳

Only thing I can say about Platner is it's far more believable he didn't know what that tattoo meant than that any of the 1 million times Susan Collins has claimed to be "shocked" or "concerned" about the horrible things she voted for that she's actually shocked or concerned.

If diversity is what made California a "shithole," then it's a strange coincidence that it also helped create Silicon Valley, Hollywood, world-class universities, the nation's largest agricultural economy, and the fourth-largest economy on Earth. That's a lot of success for such a terrible idea.

CNN = Owned by a right-wing billionaire. CBS = Owned by a right-wing billionaire. FOX = Owned by a right-wing billionaire. WaPo = Owned by a right-wing billionaire. WSJ = Owned by a right-wing billionaire. Ah yes, tell me more about how the mainstream media is “far left.”

Did you know the TV show “To Catch a Predator” was cancelled because they kept catching law enforcement, teachers, preachers, local officials, and other people who were supposed to protect children? The final straw? An Assistant District Attorney in Texas was courting who he thought was a 13-year-old boy. He didn’t show for the sting, so they sent law enforcement and the camera crew to his home. The police entered, and Louis Conradt shot himself, taking his own life. Can’t make this shit up.

Dear idiots

Republicans are salivating to implement this in America

The definition of a Christian is simple: a person who follows the actual teachings of Jesus Christ. So no one, basically.

When people ask me why I'm a progressive it's pretty simple. Some homeless people sleep in the Hotel Bel Air. Others sleep where they can. Some drug addicts are mourned by the world when they overdose in the jacuuzi. Others die in the park, with no one to attend their funeral.

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It appears that Trump never posted anything about D-Day, though he had plenty of posts on June 6. It's as if all pretenses are gone, and he's given up even pretending he's interested in honoring anything about America other than himself.

The LA election discourse is a good reminder that Democrats are overly process focused and build well intentioned systems that move far too slowly, whereas Republicans are really stupid.

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So they’ll get Mexican stem cell treatments to not age but wouldn’t take a vaccine to save their neighbors lives?

You're arguing about whether the laptop was "real" because it's the only card you've got left. It was never the point. It was the bait - and you bit. Here's what the letter was actually about. Long before that NY Post story, Trump's OWN intelligence community named Andrii Derkach a Russian agent running an operation to smear Biden over Ukraine. Not Schiff. Not CNN. Trump's own administration leaders - he was pissed about it. Then Trump's OWN Treasury Secretary Mnuchin sanctioned Derkach — "an active Russian agent for over a decade." That's Giuliani's source. There are photos of the two of them cozied up in Kyiv with an OAN film crew to document it all. Then Trump's OWN FBI director Wray went to Congress and said Russia was "very active," aiming "primarily to denigrate" Biden with a "steady drumbeat of misinformation." Trump hated him for it. You're to the right of Chris Wray on this. So a laptop magically appears, through Giuliani, the guy taking material from a sanctioned Russian asset, to "prove" the exact narrative every serious agency had already flagged as a Kremlin op. And you think the suspicious thing was the letter? The $5M "bribe" you still cite? FBI informant Alexander Smirnov pleaded GUILTY to fabricating it. He'd been talking to Russian intelligence. The whole case against the Bidens was a lie told by a Russian asset. Exactly what the 51 warned about. The 51 didn't fall for it. You did. And you're STILL doing it. The laptop was never the story, you were.

En mi consultorio he recibido mujeres adultas, iniciando su tercera edad, con hijos adultos con niveles de discapacidad altos, una de ellas llorando me dijo: he dedicado mi vida entera a este hijo, no tengo derecho ni siquiera a morir tranquila porque no sé con quién va a quedar.