they/them
It certainly says ‘what about’ a lot, but I don’t think that’s really what whataboutism is, that’s more like distracting from a problem by saying ‘what about’ another problem. But Michael Jackson isn’t really distracting from any specific problem
The lyrics, for those who don’t want to watch a YouTube video:
What about sunrise? What about rain? What about all the things That you said we were to gain?
What about killing fields? Is there a time? What about all the things That you said was yours and mine?
Did you ever stop to notice All the blood we’ve shed before? Did you ever stop to notice This crying Earth, these weeping shores?
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
What have we done to the world? Look what we’ve done What about all the peace That you pledge your only son?
What about flowering fields? Is there a time? What about all the dreams That you said was yours and mine?
Did you ever stop to notice All the children dead from war? Did you ever stop to notice This crying Earth, these weeping shores?
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
I used to dream I used to glance beyond the stars Now I don’t know where we are Although I know we’ve drifted far
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Hey, what about yesterday? (What about us?) What about the seas? (What about us?) The heavens are falling down (What about us?) I can’t even breathe (What about us?)
What about apathy? (What about us?) I need you (What about us?) What about nature’s worth? (Ooh) It’s our planet’s womb (What about us?)
What about animals? (What about it?) We’ve turned kingdoms to dust (What about us?) What about elephants? (What about us?) Have we lost their trust (What about us?)
What about crying whales? (What about us?) We’re ravaging the seas (What about us?) What about forest trails? (Ooh) Burnt despite our pleas (What about us?)
What about the holy land? (What about it?) Torn apart by creed (What about us?) What about the common man? (What about us?) Can’t we set him free (What about us?)
What about children dying? (What about us?) Can’t you hear them cry? (What about us?) Where did we go wrong? (Ooh) Someone tell me why (What about us?)
What about baby boy? (What about it?) What about the days? (What about us?) What about all their joy? (What about us?) What about the man? (What about us?)
What about the crying man? (What about us?) What about Abraham? (What about us?) What about death again? (Ooh) Do we give a damn?
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
In Hebrew you say “I am the child of X years”
אני בן\בת ארבע עשרה
Also the language is horrifically gendered. It’s not my first language, but I know a bit
I actually like that blocking only stops you seeing their stuff. You shouldn’t be able to stop someone else’s account being unable to see your comments, that shouldn’t be within your power. But if you can’t see what they said, that should be enough for you, since they won’t bother you any more. I’d even have it that blocking is entirely client side.
Another thing I would like though is the ability to group community and posts together so posts and comments can be linked together and smaller instances can get use without shovelling everyone to a single point of failure larger instance.
I’m sorry you’re feeling depressed :(
The world truly is a depressing place, and it makes perfect sense to feel sad about all the suffering going on. That said, your chemical makeup in the brain can certainly affect how you perceive them, making the sad things seem even sadder, and the other things seem more empty and meaningless. I speak from personal experience.
I think this is also more of a thing in cishet male spaces. In my experience other kinds of people are more happy to be emotionally available and comforting.
Also a quote I saw somewhere about friendships
Deep friendships form by people knowing personal things about one another. Most people are too scared to share anything truly important or private with others, and thus most people don’t develop deep friendships.
I didn’t mean to criticise your English! Evidently everyone else understood what you meant, and so did I after a moment. It was more of a funny observation ;)
Sorry this doesn’t answer the question, but I read this as ‘hearing people’s experiences’, as in, “the experiences of people who can hear” and then that line about “listening to music” confused me because you’d seemed to imply you couldn’t hear
It’s more about the person than the gender of the parent. Ignoring that some people have two parents of the same gender, or live in single parent families, I get along better with my father as he actually listens to me.
And I see you’re continuing the trend!
Swedish isn’t exactly “my language”, but it is the language I know best after English. Plural they is de and singular they is hen (to contrast with hon for she and han for he). It’s been in use for decades, but only got officially added in the 2010s.
And Finnish just uses hän for everyone, which is supreme.
My apologies, I didn’t know.
I’m only scared of vaccines because they’re delivered via a needle. At this point I really shouldn’t be acted of needles any more after injecting myself every week for ages, but for some reason I am 🤷♀️
It would have bothered me to the same degree, I don’t know about you. I haven’t seen anyone on Lemmy using ‘he’ as a ‘gender neutral’ pronoun yet, but I assure you I would correct it just as I regularly do in real life.
But Incy Wincy spider climbs up the spout again
Canada is right next door
You saved one life twice. But is there any significance to this being ‘her’ rather than ‘they’? Did you have a specific person in mind?
Your stuff is pretty cool! I don’t speak Chinese so I’m sure I’m missing some of the depth, but the English is still very evocative
Live in Stockholm, visit Argentina, party in some equatorial island