Welcome, and happy Women's Day!
Imma do a line of estrogen in honor of the day! Maybe even flash a conservative, should be fun!
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Lol yessss, love this energy
Happy International Women's Day, everyone!
Thanks, definitely genuinely esteemed Academy Award nominated (but not this year) character actress Margot Robbie!
That's definitely genuine esteemed Academy Award nominated (but not this year) character actress Margot Robbie to you!
My sincerest apologies, I've edited to be more respectful.
Yay
Hiii! Happy International Women's Day! Transwoman here.
I never understood why some people are so weird online. I've gotten tons of creepy messages. I have an Instagram account where I only post my nail art and I get tons of creepy DMs on there. It happened when I posted pics on nail subreddits as well but I didn't post there as much.
I really don't know if I'm going to be able to treat myself today as I have been feeling very low energy for the past couple days but I've been able to take a nice long shower and do some self-care and I still have some energy left so that's promising.
Since I have to leave the house to go to the drug store today, I might pick up some new skincare products while I'm there. I've been meaning to get a new exfoliating face mask for a long time, maybe today will be the day!
Oh that sounds like the perfect treat, take the self-care to that next level!
My old IG account was mostly photos of cross stitch projects and yep, you guessed it, still got creeps. People are absolutely wild. I guess it's because we had the gall to show our naked hands?!
I hope you're feeling a bit better soon, those low energy days (or weeks, or months) are the worst.
My old IG account was mostly photos of cross stitch projects and yep, you guessed it, still got creeps. People are absolutely wild. I guess it’s because we had the gall to show our naked hands?!
Wow. Yeah, how dare we! We might have to start wearing mittens when posting so we don't attract all those hand, nail and cross stitch fetishists 😭 (Edit: Just want to make it clear that I don't mean to kink shame anyone. I'm cool with any kink/fetish as long as it hurts no one. It's just about the weird, creepy and sometimes actually scary DMs)
those low energy days (or weeks, or months) are the worst.
Oof yeah, it often does end up being weeks and months but I've been getting more and more breaks between them so I'm hopeful!
hi :3
Hello! See there are loads of us here really :D
yeah! i figure that a lot of women online stay anonymous because of how creepy guys can be
Except now we all know each other so any creeps better watch out!
We're also all getting pizza tonight, if you'd care to join in with that part 😄
girl power 💅
heck yeah ill never pass up a pizza party
Heyo! I had no idea it was International Women's Day until my trainer told me this morning. My husband just left for a weekend trip so it's just me and the doggo tonight. I'm going to make a marsala and probably watch a bunch of Doctor Who.
Happy International Women's Day!
Ah brilliant timing, you can leave the washing up and watch as many episodes in a row as you want and nobody even needs to know about it. Love those weekends 😄
To all you International women! Happy day!
I never felt weird posting to Reddit that I was a woman, and never got any weird dms or anything.. no clue why, just luck I suppose. Or could have to do with where/how I shared that info.. either way I was openly asexually female for the entire 5 years I had an actual account. Worst that happened was a bit of banter with a user about whether or not boobs float (something I honestly don’t know); they told me to go check and report back and I said their man boobs would be more likely than mine to float since I’m thin and not well endowed.
But I’ve been more vocal about it here because Lemmy is an absolute sausage party, and it’s so so so so obvious. It hasn’t been weird here at all either, but there also aren’t a lot of conversations in which I feel it necessary to divulge (probably because it’s a sausage party, so those sorts of conversations don’t happen as much)
I wasn’t using that as a treat myself excuse, but I’m shopping for a fancy new bed frame (with headboard storage, power strip, lights, and drawers underneath to keep my cats out) and it was gunna be a birthday gift to myself, but now it’s a women’s day/birthday gift 🤭
I said their man boobs would be more likely than mine to float since I’m thin and not well endowed.
Jokes on you! I'm a man and I'm also thin and not well endowed.
That means the same thing for men as it does for women, right?
Depends; does it float? 😜
Endowed male here, ummm it kinda floats as long as it's not hard.
You definitely dodged some weirdos over there, well done!
I think from conversations I've had, a lot of women had such bad experiences on Reddit they decided to go anonymous on here and I wonder if that's actually why it seems like such a "sausage party" in the first place 🤔
Oh well, mostly irrelevant really, as you say it's not like it constantly comes up! Happy birthday and congrats on that fancy new frame, it sounds awesome!
Hey thanks! I got a really high quality ultra plush mattress for myself last year, and it’s about time it had a nice frame to go on. Plus then I can use the old frame and decent mattress in the spare room, and give away the shitty futon that’s in there. Win win.
I was around the internet back in the pre-social media days of “tits or gtfo” and all, so I know I dodged a firestorm of bullets. 😳
I saw some sort of demographic poll a while back about the makeup of fedi users, and it was something like 10% being female? I suppose that’s probably a self-selected response type thing and probably not super accurate depending how they went about finding participants, and It’s probably also highly dependent upon the instance, but that’s why I said it’s a sausage party. Also every post about ladies things is like 80% “I’m a guy but”, which is fine and all but.. feels sausagy.
We're middle aged and still make our guests sleep on an airbed on the floor of the craft room, so two actual decent beds in one house sounds so grownup to me you wouldn't believe 😅
In our defence though we both work from home and I need somewhere to keep all this yarn, whereas house guests are relatively rare. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
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Don't leave us hanging like that, what kind of game are you developing?
It's a very minimalist city builder thing, barely a game at all really. There's some screenshots over on my alter-ego's Mastodon if you're genuinely curious, although they're mostly hidden in a stream of nonsense from all the TV tooting I do on a weekend 🙈
Dope Hexagons.
Cheers, everything looks better in hexagons 😄
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You’re a woman?
Well that can’t be right I’ve always operated under the assumption that on the internet the men are men, the women are men and the children are the FBI…
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Happy International Women's Day, from a fellow woman on the internet. I honestly didn't even realize that was today, my life has been a complete mess lately. I'm sorry you've gotten gross messages online, I like to joke that I'm so unattractive and unlovable that even online no one bothers me 😂
I spent most of this morning thinking it was still Wednesday so right there with you 😅
May your weekend be relaxing, and your inbox remain creep-free!
Back at you!
In reference to your user name, what do you stitch?
Oh that's a can of worms. deep breath
Currently cross stitching Errol from Discworld, a steampunk style world map, and a design of my own based on one of this year's Eurovision entries.
Currently knitting a pair of socks in ridiculous multicoloured yarn, and a poncho-style lacy shawl that will probably take a year (but it needs to be done by July 🤦♀️).
Currently not crocheting or sewing anything but that will no doubt be rectified soon! And then of course there's all the things that have been put into hibernation that I'll hopefully get round to finishing one day eventually maybe...
There's a decent craft community on Fedi if you happen to be into any of these things!
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Hiya! Happy International Women's Day! I recently got back from a long break from Lemmy, and really most other social media too, but my experience on here has been pretty good too. Generally I'd say it feels more friendly and positive than I remember Reddit feeling, and with generally more productive conversations in my experience.
And yeah we'll probably just order in later too. I've been a bit sick lately so probably not much else
Ack, sorry you've not been well, but I'm glad you're able to curl up and treat yourself food-wise as that always helps at least a tiny bit.
It's takeaway pizzas all round tonight, by the sounds of it!
Thanks, I think I'm over the worst of it, but still not feeling 100%
Having a lazy day curled up under blankets, cozy in bed, and having some pizza is the best lol