>There's a reason why you're advised to keep your seatbelt fastened when seated. I simply don't understand some cabins that have cocktail bars in them - are you absolutely crazy?
No, just not pusillanimous about it, given the odds.
No, just not pusillanimous about it, given the odds.
I suspect those would be… unpopular. At least some airlines banned hardcover books during takeoff and landing for a time.
Cars that can only be driven by computers in controlled conditions defeat most of the point of having cars (i.e., mobility for people unable to use public transport).
> The model says that people are disabled by barriers in society, not by their impairment or difference. Barriers can be physical, like buildings not having accessible toilets. Or they can be caused by people's attitudes to difference, like assuming disabled people can't do certain things.
in areas without usable public transport, everyone has this "disability". Individual action can't make public transport magically appear: only policy changes can do that. (Or anarchically setting up your own public transport, I suppose, but that'll probably get you arrested in America.)
Fascinating; an exemplar of both toxic masculinity and grandiloquence in a single word.
Would love an explanation of how you got here
> Destitute of a manly or courageous strength and firmness of mind
Not much of a leap.
The etymology is latin for "small (pussilus) spirit/courage (animus)" meaning "faint of heart".
Or perhaps you also think only men are brave enough to go to airplane bars (or to untie their belt or stand from their seat during a flight even when it's not "absolutely necessary"?)
> Destitute of a manly or courageous strength and firmness of mind; of weak spirit; mean-spirited; spiritless; cowardly; -- said of persons,
“Destitute of a manly spirit” implies that there is such a thing as a manly spirit one can be more or less possessed of… that falls well and truly under the scope of the meaning of toxic masculinity.
And perhaps you, for some reason, think that women aren’t perfectly able to engage in toxic masculinity?
Either way, I only use the term where and when appropriate.