The Desolution of Yugoslavia
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The history of Yugoslavia since 1945 embraces a period of rapid economic, political, and social modernization reflected in urban and industrial growth, improvements in literacy and economic well-being, changes in the traditional patriarchal family structure, moderation of ethnic hostilities, and integration into the international economy.
However, in dialectical fashion, it also embraces a period of economic decline and intense ethnic reaction. In a very real sense, the route to the collapse of the Yugoslav federation, like the collapse of the Soviet federation, was paved by the policy toward nationalities that each had pursued, but it was precipitated by involvement in the global economy.
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A cool side effect of the pronoun tags is that it has made me aware of how many women use this site (I know not everyone who uses she/her pronouns may identify as a woman, but I assume many/most do). The vibe of r*ddit just always felt so male-centric to me, even in the less misogynistic non-default subs, and I always assumed there were very few women in those communities. I suppose it's just cool to know that this place has such a strong gender diversity.
yup it's a far cry from "everyone on the internet is male until proven otherwise" which devolved into "POST TITS OR GTFO" 🙄
Yeah it totally dispels the whole "the internet is male" myth
Being on the discord and on here really re-wired my brain with regards to pronouns. Now every time I see someone defaulting to he/him I cringe.
1000%. I must admit before we left reddit I was way less tuned in to trans issues, I’m still kind of a baby leftist in a lot of ways despite calling myself a communist for years now. Unironically this community has educated me so much in that regard, even just interacting with trans people much more than I ever have irl has been great and really illuminating
One thing I eventually noticed is that on reddit I would always use they by default, but I'd switch to he if I was talking about a user that was being an ass haha
LMAO
Yeah even I as a woman tend to assume these kind of sites are filled with men, but the tags really do prove that it's not the case
I feel this so much! I admit I was anxious about the pronoun tags because outing myself as a girl on reddit had some real bad results in the past, but seeing how many women were on this site was actually super heartening 😊 And you're totally right it changes the vibe, feels more sincere and less like people are anxious about others acting in bad faith.
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I would always try to avoid outing myself as a girl on r*ddit too. I remember one time someone replied assuming I was a man and I made a comment that literally said "I'm a woman" and just got like 8 downvotes on it lmao
Yeah, I tend to be in mostly-male spaces in general (career and hobby wise especially) so I got so used to thinking of myself as The Token Girl(tm) on reddit since it had the same vibes
Lmao big same as a computer engineer
lol yeah, I'm a software engineer and there've been times in my career where I was the only woman in an engineering department with 20+ people in it. When I'm actively looking for jobs I like to track the ratio of "guys named <some generic white guy name like chris or matt>" to "all women" that I talk to, guess which usually wins
Too bad many of them are leaving.
I'm not sure if many of them are leaving, perhaps some. There are valid issues to be addressed in the context of making people feel comfortable here, but I don't think women are leaving this place in droves perse.