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You were condescendingly explaining something to people who already understood. That is typically poorly received.

I don't understand your comment

Canberra is called the Bush Capital. It's a small city in the middle of a lot of bush, it's very beautiful.

It's hyperbole for humour's sake. You'll see it often. Literally no one took it the way you did.

You understand that we understand that right?

That the problem here is that they're using this as a handy tip for saving money in as casual a tone as 'bring your lunch to work'.

You get that right?

I don't have a cat (did in the past, was an indoor cat) but there's many roaming my neighbourhood because it's still apparently difficult for Australians to understand how fucked that is.

I'd like to be able to talk to cats.

So I'd go have a chat to them and explain what longer, healthier lives they'd have at home. Free from disease, injury and the risk of being hit by car. I'd tell them to go home.

I'd also explain to them, that if they keep visiting my house, that eventually my dog might get one. And if he doesn't, I'll trap them and take them to the pound because their shit families are unlikely to have chipped them.

You take that back. That's a cinematic masterpiece.

Amputation sites I think? The suction attracts blood flow to the area and supports healing/retention of blood vessels... I think. Neither one of us clearly can be bothered googling but that's what I recall...

Context?

Were they doing the work they were meant to do during work hours?

Working remotely shouldn't be treated as a privilege.

You'll never agree that women have an experience you've not experienced?

It's not a matter of opinion

We're not females, mate, we're women. And it's not isolated to any country or socio-economic group.

These aren't extremes. They're the lived existence of most women. Like I said, that's a list that most women can identify an instance of that they've experienced.

Your word choice and tone make me think that you aren't a person any woman readily or candidly confides in.

Rape, assault, groping, what have you - that happens everywhere. It's not just a bleak story of post-USSR landscapes and people being carted into trucks; it's ordinary people. Pele with families, with white collar jobs. Suburbs and night clubs. Country roads and city alleys.

I'm not a broken shell of a person. I'm a woman in my late 30s who has experienced trauma at the hands of men I trusted, and from complete strangers. I'm a high income earner, I'm privileged. But every woman I know has experienced something on that list.

Listen to women. Wherever they are, whatever they look like. Stop telling us. We don't need to be told anything.