On the 7th of january in 1919, the “Semana Trágica” began in Argentina when police attacked striking metalworkers in Buenos Aires, killing five, after workers set the police chief’s car on fire. The city was quickly placed under martial law.
The “Semana Trágica” (Tragic Week in English, not to be confused with the Spanish Tragic Week) was the violent supression of a general workers’ uprising, beginning with the attack on January 7th. In addition to the actions of the police and military, right-wing vigilantes launched pogroms against the city’s Jews, many of whom were not involved, in order to suppress the rebellion.
The conflict began as a strike at the Vasena metal works, an English Argentine-owned plant in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. On January 7th, workers overturned and set fire to the car of the police chief Elpidio González. Militant workers also shot and killed the commander of the Army detachment protecting González. Following this, police attacked, killing five workers and wounding twenty more.
On the same day, maritime workers of the port of Buenos Aires voted in favor of a general strike for better hours and wages. After the police attack at Vasena, a waterfront strike began: all ship movements, and all loading and unloading, came to a halt.
Rioting soon spread throughout Buenos Aires, and workers battled with both state and right-wing paramilitary forces. Police utilized members of the far-right Argentine “Patriotic League”, who targeted the city’s working class Russian Jewish population, which they associated with the rebellion, beating and murdering many uninvolved civilians.
On the 11th, the city was placed under martial law, and the military restored control over the city over the next several days. Estimates of the death toll range from between 141 to over 700. The United States embassy reported that 1,500 people were killed in total, “mostly Russians and generally Jews”
La Semana Trágica - el historiador
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I’ve had that happen once and it was lovely. For a dude actually being pursued by someone who obviously wants and appreciates and desires is so rare and feels so lovely. : (
Are you being serious? There are so many places to start and it depends on where you are. Do you groom regularly? That is the first question I would ask. I think a lot of men do not realize that proper grooming can make an average looking person appear much more attractive.
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Oh you are British. My apologies.
i’m genuinely not sure anymore but there was a time when “grooming” meant “beauty routine for him”
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Tights and flowy white poet shirts have never steered me wrong.
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I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to imply anything about your looks. Please accept my apology. The Flowy White Poet shirt is just kind of a fun meme among ren faire and larp people I know, and honestly it looks good on most people, if folks are good humor’d about the look.
Yea, that sucks. It’s really hard to give actual useable advice without knowing you.
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Interesting. Want to hit this blunt?
Ah just saw this. Well referring to my other reply. Odds are pretty low that someone would go from dating a super masc or super feminine to dating a person to somewhere in the middle. If someone looks like they’re into typical gender roles, and ideas, they probably are. If you want to date people outside your typical style then you’re going to need to get creative.
Try to laugh more gayly and touch more people so they know you are available and pursuable.
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Get fit, wear nice clothes, read books, and join a book club.
Wear cologne, doesn’t have to be expensive. Tuck in your shirt and have a clean look OR monitor fashion trends. Clean your room. Moisturize. Wear sun cream. Exercise regularly, mix cardio and weights. Attend talks about books and art and maybe poetry and genuinely try to learn.
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Wear what makes you feel good and confident. Developing a personal style that you like is more important than staying up to date on fashion imo. The people you want to hang with will appreciate that as much if not more than being up to date on fashion.
Whatever your “look” or “style” is, you need to go around people where you’d fit in. Ideally you wouldn’t just look exactly like everyone else, have to stand out somehow, but unless you’re just super conventionally attractive you need to fit in the “acceptable margins.”
If you don’t look wealthy, don’t go around places where people look wealthy. If you don’t look buff, don’t go to places where lots of people are fit, if you like wearing expensive looking clothes, don’t go to a punk show. If you’re weird, don’t go to normal places. If you’re basic, don’t go to weird places.
I mean go wherever you want but if the goal is to find romance then understand how you fit in the areas/places you go to.
If you’re not sure, look at the couples that are at the place. How would it look if it were you with one of them instead of their current partner? Would it make sense? Don’t lie to yourself. A person isn’t going from dating a fitness freak to a mathlete, and conversely, someone dating a quiet introverted person isn’t going to switch up and start dating Brochester McSporterbeer.
Ofc there’s always exceptions, but those exceptions are because they had something else in common first. Whether that’s work, friends of friends, a family friend, school, a random interest, whatever else that brought them together.
Edit: This works for online dating too. Save yourself the trouble. If a person is sporty, and you’re not, don’t swipe right. If you do have matches, look at them and see if there’s any patterns. Younger dumber me “i don’t understand, why none of these people aren’t matching with me, there’s people who I find way more “conventionally” attractive who match with me. Ah, that’s because they want a nice person who looks like they have a good job and get regular haircuts, not person with a bunch of piercings and a bad(punk) haircut.” Once I stopped worrying about those people and focused on people who actually might find me attractive, everything went a lot smoother.
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Lol I can’t tell if you’re being vague and ironic because you’re doing a bit or if youre seriously asking but hedging your bets because you’re afraid of something.
If it’s the first one, good job, excellent bit. If it’s the latter, that’s also cool, who amongst us and so on.
Or maybe it’s something else, idk, either way you got some nice engagement out of it.
tfw don’t go to any places because (a) I don’t know where I’d belong, and (b) can’t drive and it’s like a 30 minute walk to go to the nearest store (I do go to the gym, get fast food and pick up some groceries) and a muuuuch longer walk to get anywhere else
honestly I just need to move. and figure out where I belong / what kind of people would be interested in me.