On the 24th of october in 1975, approximately 90% of Icelandic women struck for equality, not attending jobs or doing any domestic work. Iceland passed an equal pay law the following year, but the strike has been repeated on its anniversary several times since, such as in the years 2005, 2010, and 2016.
The strike was planned by "The Women's Congress", which had met on June 20th and 21st earlier that year. Among the reasons given for going on strike were pay inequality, lack of women in union leadership, and a general lack of recognition for the value and skill of domestic labor.
During the work stoppage, also known as "Women's Day Off", 25,000 people gathered in Reykjavik, Iceland's capital city, for a rally. There, women listened to speakers, sang, and talked to each other about what could be done to achieve gender equality in Iceland.
Women from many different backgrounds spoke, including a housewife, two members of parliament, and a worker. The last speech of the day was by Aðalheiður Bjarnfreðsdóttir, who "represented Sókn, the trade union for the lowest paid women in Iceland", according to The Guardian.
In 1976, the Icelandic government passed an equal pay law, and the country elected its first female President, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, five years later in 1980.
The 1975 Women's Strike also helped inspire the 2016 "Black Monday" anti-abortion ban protests in Poland, as well as the "International Women's Strike", single day work stoppages on March 8th, 2017 and 2018.
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Dungeons and Dragons vent post
Every now and then I am reminded that D&D exists and become irrationally angry.
Ok actually it's more like rationally angry. My partner and I are absolutely 100% the target demographic in every way and should LOVE this game, but every time we've tried to play has just been SO GARBAGE. Enough so that every reminder of the game (+my own anxiety) sends me down the "if everyone you meet is an asshole, you're the asshole" spiral.
But I'm pretty sure I'm NOT the asshole, just someone who has had absolute garbage luck with D&D groups.
We haven't played since COVID started (our active campaigns went online and wrapped quickly, and we were both like "whew, glad I can be done with that forever"). But it SUCKS because WE SHOULD LOVE IT. So many people get so much out of it, but it always felt like complete torture. We played with friends, we played with strangers, and every time there was just this one asshole player at the table completely ruining it for everyone else.
EVERY campaign I've joined has had a different THAT GUY that was just UNBEARABLE to play with. Stealing from other PCs, consistently rolling completely improbably high, unassailable via PVP because of some bullshit or min-max build when other characters do call out their character on their bullshit, killing friendly NPCs, stealing from friendly NPCs, intentionally holding the idiot ball for who knows what fucking reason, rolling "the characters's twin brother" when somehow they actually do face the consequences of their actions.
Like, I read posts about it, and there's always a "you'll eventually meet THAT GUY if you play long enough", but how the fuck can I actually manage NOT encountering THAT GUY for once?
It just pisses me off so fucking badly. I wanted to like the game. I wanted to roll dice and move miniatures and make food for friends and somehow it's always COMPLETE TORTURE from one fucking prick.
It sucks. I hate D&D. I don't want to. But I hate it SO FUCKING MUCH because it put me in contact with pricks for WAY TOO LONG.
Yeah that guy. The trick is to sus out who else hates that guy and then invite them to play without that guy.
the That Guys of the world are a problem, but it's also on the DM to just not let tha happen. as a DM I have stepped in multiple times when a player wants to hurt the group in some way and gone nope you don't do that, that doesn't happen, I'm da big cheese here don't like it go do somethin else with your day. a DM shouldn't be controlling, but they should know when to put their foot down to stop 1 guy pissing on everybody elses, and their own, fun. we're here to have fun!
I need to play more tabletop-style RPG video games with my partner--negate the "other people suck" problem entirely; I just might have set the bar too high by starting with BG3. Not sure they'd have much jank tolerance thanks to Larian's level of polish.
This is why I only play at women and enby only tables lol
Smart
About to GM Mothership for the first time, hopefully it leaning more OSR will help, plus having a long time GM as one of my players should help