when I was a child, I thought Goth subculture were depressed because of crimes of Muslim in medieval Spain, (because the Goth subculture share its name with the tribe Goth in Spain)
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subconsciously I was never convinced by Islam since I was a child.
Quran lacks a lot of details about stories of the prophets, and Quran was hard to understand without interpretations even for native speakers of Arabic, because of archaic words and old dialect of Arabic, and everything in Quran have a lot of interpretation, reading Quran feels like singing a song that you don't understand its meaning and the stories don't make any sense.
one of my former friends became an aunt during childhood and she used to make fun of me for having small family because she has a lot of brothers and sisters.
Also there is a man that I know from childhood, I felt sad when I saw him playing with the child of his brother, because I will never have a brother or nephews and nieces, I will never be uncle.
but I think once nieces and nephews are adults they lose their relationships with their uncles and aunts and in my culture, uncles and aunts are known for rivalry no uncle or aunt wants to see their nephews and nieces better than their children.
I feel sad when I see boys enjoying their childhood with their brothers and I feel sad too when I see adults with their brothers.
my childhood was lonely, and homophobic bullying destroyed my mind completely and my mother promised to give me a brother then I found out she lied to me to stop me from crying.
I feel something missing and there is a void that is never going to be filled in this life, maybe in the next life
I think all humans, whether they have siblings or are only children, have experienced instances that show us that people will always treat their immediate family better than their relatives, friends, or neighbors.
I used to see my cousin like brother then I found out, he doesn't keep secrets, and he doesn't love me or see me like a brother and he even said it in my face that he loves his brother more than me.
another cousin too when I visited my other aunt's house, my other cousin opened the fridge and told me look at the fruits that I bought and he didn't give me one fruit despite telling me to see them, because he bought the fruit for his brothers and his parents.
If you intentionally show someone fresh fruit, and make them feel you're going to offering it by telling them look at the fruit that I bought, but then give them the cheapest juice instead that could reasonably be seen as ungenerous and disrespectful
My sister bought me fruit on the next day after she noticed that I was upset after that poor hospitality.
Nothing can make up for having brothers and sisters.
Just asking if women and gays experience discrimination differently, not who face more discrimination what I mean by implicit misogyny and implicit homophobia is when someone takes advantage of something that happened to mistreat you, rather than mistreating you directly for being gay or a woman. It is like disguised homophobia and disguised misogyny.
Like when a teacher hits a gay student more than other straight-passing students who made the same mistake.
When police punish an LGBT person more than a straight-passing person, even if they made the same violation and even if homosexuality is legal in their country.
When mother hits her gay son more than his straight passing brothers and when a grandmother respect and care about her straight passing grandson more than her gay grandson.
When women and men respect straight passing men more than gay men.
I remember an instance of a man before getting out of the bus telling me to sit in his seat, but he didn't say that to the woman standing next to me because she is a prostitute, I think this is implicit misogyny but if he knew I was a gay or heard my voice he would treat as badly as her.
Is there a way to see the weekly rotations of free civilizations on our browser without having to re-download the game?
Right now most people in poor countries can't afford Maya Autodesk which made the usage of industry 3D softwares like Maya a privilege exclusive to people in developed countries since the average monthly cost of Maya is bigger than the average income of people living in low income countries, and the Maya Indie plan is not available in most low income countries.
the high cost of Maya could lead to the decline of graphics and 3D in low income countries, they have only Blender as their option.
People in low-income and developing countries can't afford legal Maya usage after the switch to subscriptions. High recurring monthly costs made standard licenses unaffordable for local artists and small studios.
This shift pushed many users toward free software like Blender or continued use of unlicensed copies.
Blender monopolized free 3D users in poor countries and Maya Autodesk monopolized professional users in developed countries.
Age of Empire is the game franchise that introduced me and millions of players to strategy video games, and I am glad that the franchise is still continuing although the first strategy game I played was browser game but Age of empire is the first non browser video strategy game I played.
I enjoyed Age of Empire more than other strategy games, I enjoyed the civilizations, the characters, and hearing phrases from other languages, my favorite thing about the gameplay is when players are advancing to new ages when it make their kingdom develop.
Although I wished that the game was more realistic, like making players need at least 3 men to build buildings, instead of allowing players to build buildings with one person even if it was a woman, women didn't build buildings and things in previous ages, let alone one woman.
https://newsroom.spotify.com/2026-03-19/equal-the-podcast-5-year-anniversary/
We should delete our Spotify accounts, uninstall and boycott Spotify because of its Equal campaign, which promotes only female singers and what's worse they launched also a podcast about only female singers to celebrate the campaign marking its fifth year.
Spotify made 1,400 female singers from different world regions appear in Times Square, only females, claiming those female singers face fewer opportunities, less visibility, and unequal access throughout their careers, when in reality many of those featured female singers have a lot of opportunities, visibility and access in their careers, many of those featured singers are already one of the best selling singers in their regions, nearly everyone in the Middle East know those featured Middle Eastern female singers, whoever wrote the article doesn't know anything about Middle Eastern singers.
Female singers dominated pop music for decades, the top 40 pop singers are females, and they are more visible than male singers, if you ask people to name female pop singers, they will say Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Beyonce, however if you ask people to name a male pop singer who is household name probably they just say Justin Bieber, there are barely any household male singers in pop music under 45 except for Justin Bieber.
And even in the Middle East, the bestselling singers under 50 are female singers.
so it is men who face fewer opportunities, less visibility, and unequal access throughout their careers.
If we don’t boycott this sexist and exclusionary campaign, other companies may follow the same approach, creating campaigns that promote only women from other professions, such as painters, politicians, authors, actresses, dancers, and others.
Spotify made those female singers appear on Times Square and now those foreign women are bragging online about appearing on Time Square even though they appeared on Times Square just because of having female private parts.
There is nothing equal about this campaign it excludes men which is misandristic and didn't promote male singers in female dominated pop music, Feminism is entrenched in the Swedish app Spotify.
Imagine if a music app started a campaign promoting only male singers in female dominated pop music, feminists would lose their minds and accuse the app of misogyny.
after I deleted my Spotify account I typed in the reason box that the reason is because Spotify is discriminating against male singers by promoting only female singers in the Equal campaign.
When men dominated the Grammys in 2018, feminists lost their minds and launched the hashtag #GrammysSoMale. Yet in the 2020s, when female singers dominated the Grammys, no one complained or started a hashtag called #GrammysSoFemale.
https://news.sbs.co.kr/english/article.do?news_id=N1008695289
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/03/31/eeoc-lawsuit-coca-cola-bottler-discrimination/
Imagine if there are only men only programs and retreats for disadvantaged men (Black men, gay men, trans-men, handicapped men, poor white men, men from minority religions and subcultures), feminists would criticize these programs.
Don't justify this by saying women are disadvantaged, there are a millions of disadvantaged men like men from minorities and poor men.
Hi.
I read that some music videos in the 2000s (which featured women wearing provocative clothing) led to protests by religious people in some Middle Eastern and North African countries which includes my country in front of the channel headquarters. The reason, of course, is that back then there was no YouTube, Spotify, or TikTok or smart on demand TV, so people and families were watching the same thing (music videos on TV and music on radio) so it made these music videos so popular that they caused protests, back then most parents knew who is the favorite singer of their children.
Right now in this decade you will never hear of protests happening because of provocative clothing in music videos because most people now search for music on Youtube or Spotify or Tiktok. Also Youtube algorithm is so aggressive these years, which makes the popularity of music videos and influence of many successful people more limited to your past search history,
by the 2011 most young people who listened to international music in my country knew who was Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Beyonce and Shakira, they were household names Rihanna was 22 at the time.
but now even in 2026 Sabrina Carpenter, Billie Ellish, Olivia Rodrigo, Chappell Roan, despite their success they are not really household names in my country if I mention their names in real life people will say who are these?
so the question is could the diversification of media weaken the influence and the popularity of successful new pop stars?
I remember in the mid 2010s I watched an American film.
The protagonist is a white man in late 40s or early 50s
The movie is from the 2000s or the early 2010s
I remember just one scene when he went to a business likely a bar and the employee was insulting trash talking him in foreign language and the employee was surprised when the protagonist understood him and replied to him in the same language.
I forgot the story but a lot of it happened during the night if I am not wrong he was searching for someone.
It's not Tombstone or Taken.
I remember in the mid 2010s I watched an American film.
The protagonist is a white man in late 40s or early 50s
The movie is from the 2000s or the early 2010s
I remember just one scene when he went to a business likely a bar and the employee was insulting trash talking him in foreign language and the employee was surprised when the protagonist understood him and replied to him in the same language.
I forgot the story but a lot of it happened during the night if I am not wrong he was searching for missing son or something like that.
I remember in the mid 2010s I watched an American film.
The protagonist is a white man in late 40s or early 50s
The movie is from the 2000s or the early 2010s
I remember just one scene when he went to a business likely a bar and the employee was insulting trash talking him in foreign language and the employee was surprised when the protagonist understood him and replied to him in the same language.
I forgot the story but a lot of it happened during the night if I am not wrong he was searching for missing son or something like that.