Just because people are famous doesn’t mean their opinions are valid.
Lol. Normally Elon just posts cringe that isnt funny in any way. But this is hilarious. “I love your transphobia, but have you tried thinking about literally anything else?” Like he wants her to start posting great replacement shit
man i love this comment i wish lemmy had awards
reddit would instantly go bankrupt if lemmy added the yeah button from miiverse
omg we need this.
I fucking hate awards, they’re shit garbage and I’m so glad Lanny doesn’t have them
The thing that always bugged me about awards, especially Reddit gold back in the day, is occasionally I would comment about something wrong with the world, and someone else would see that and give three bucks to Reddit when they could have donated it to an organization trying to solve the issue I was commenting about. Like, I get that you’re showing appreciation for my comment but I’d rather that money go to something other than Reddit premium.
Haha Lanny. Here I go, checking my Lanny stance on the photoverse hahaha
I’m just having fun, obvious autocorrect mixup
Hahaha what a weird autocorrect—it’s never done that before! Absolutely leaving it. Photoverse made me giggle.
Awards are just bespoke emoji. You can still react to a comment with a picture or emoji if you want.
IMO your comment, actually expressing explicit and specific approval, is worth more than, like… a picture of a little whale with money coming out of its blowhole, or whatever.
But it doesn’t make your comment glow/move around/whatever the fuck awards did
Your username makes me happy
🥰 😳 thank you
Awards or any other monetarily focused system inherently balance discussions towards the inclinations of wealthy people. We already have too much of that in the world, that they can buy law, buy awareness, buy support, it is a bad idea to let them buy opinions and discussion. Everyone gets one vote, nobody is special enough to be worth more than any other.
There isn’t any truly stopping them however, they can buy users, buy botnets, buy influence anywhere. Fuck it I guess, nothing is sacred, everything is tainted.
I mean, sure. My comment was entirely tongue in cheek. I didn’t like awards, especially those that are more than just a glorified emoji (such as those I mentioned)
But, truth be told, the wealthy can just straight up buy discussions and opinions. User farms/bots aren’t free, and neither was Twitter currently X. Nothing can hide from the cruel hand of capital. The fediverse isn’t immune to this either: it’s too small for anyone rich to buy out, but there’s very little preventing them from just buying one of the larger instances. And even without that, it still privileges those with money - hosting isn’t free.
The most we can do is to stay vigilant, I suppose. Be aware of the inherent biases in the world and refuse to engage with systems that are too strongly captured - Twitter currently X, the zuck platform, Reddit soon (probably).
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Jesus, it’s way more dehumanizing to be thought of only in relation to checks notes Large Gametes than simply accepting that people of the same gender can be born with different bits.
It’s even worse than that. Individuals are a vessel for those gametes, not the gametes themselves. I’m sorry, but sperm aren’t fucking people Robert Rowling. You aren’t your cum or your period. Inhaling pollen during spring isn’t killing trees.
Joanne Galbraith’s conservative gender ideology values genes and bloodlines more than people. Living a good life doesn’t matter, only reproducing like e coli.
Phobes want the world to make sense because they think it’ll fill the emptiness in their soul. It’ll never work. The void can’t be filled that way.
Who are the people you’re talking about?
Joanne Rowling has released books under the name Robert Galbraith, and the poster above has mixed up the names for humourous effect.
Also Robert Galbraith Heath was a psychiatrist who was a big proponent of conversion therapy for queer people. Probably nothing to do with why Rowling chose that name…
I always thought it was a way to stay relevant, cause she cant think of any more film franchises to copy, but clearly its been an issue for a while.
It’s so sad how this kind of people succeeded. Or, is the society designed this way? Ugh.
Eh. Despite its problems, Harry Potter was fairly decent, especially in terms of having characters people care about. The world building was mid and there was bigotry against people outside of England, but there is a lot to like about it. It had a huge Fandom, many of whom were queer. That series earned her most of her wealth and popularity originally.
I think it was possible for her to have grown out of her conservative worldview if she was willing to. Unfortunately, it’s hard to critically examine your beliefs. Her financial success probably affected the chances of her knowing queer people personally, which decreased her motivation to understand us. If she wasn’t successful, she might have been a better person than she is now. Then again, maybe not. At least she wouldn’t have caused as much harm.
Yeah, I am more curious about if e.g. being a bigot even helps your chances in success. Bleak…
A real feminist would have realized, he’d never say that to a man.
Nah he just calls them pedos when they irritate enough
“belongs to the sex class”… The heck. Such a meaningless circular definition just to provide a veneer of justification for her transphobia.
Also:
3 Ways Squidward Makes It Really Difficult To Jerk Off To Him
What the hell is this website lmao. It’s awesome.
They have a youtube channel too!
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
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It used to be owned by The Onion, but it’s since become its own thing. But it’s basically if The Onion was clickbait/buzzfeed.
Uff
“I am also a cunt, please stop drawing attention to our shitty views”
TERFs? Posting interesting and positive content? I don’t think so, Elon - they’re usually regurgitating same bullshit over and over, and being as miserable as possible. Just like the Twitter’s usual far right user base, but somehow even more so.
She wrote one of the most popular book series of all time, certainly she can think of something to tweet about other than whining about trans people
she ran out of Earthsea to rip off and she has nothing else
the title confuses me. umm… don’t you think Elon would find most of us insufferable?
I doubt he even thinks of us at all.
hence the keyword “would”
I doubt he even would think of us at all.
I believe a woman is a human being who belongs to the sex class that produces large gametes.
TIL my grandma isn’t a woman anymore.
That depends on which sex class she attended and whether or not her teacher was accredited.
Of all hills to die on that ruin your reputation and legacy, why this one? I just don’t get it.
I am a gen x cis heterosexual white male.
Transexuality is strange and foreign to me. I don’t understand it. This gives me exactly zero right to take any stand against it. I’d say it gives me less right to express an opinion as how could I be knowledgeable on something I’ve just admitted I don’t understand?
Let people live and go enjoy your billions.
Transexuality is strange and foreign to me.
Also XCHWM. Like most other things, it gets less strange and foreign the more exposure you have to it. My biggest old man Gen X hurdle so far regarding gender was remembering to use “they” when referring to a non-binary person. It felt weird for a while, but they more I did it, the easier it got.
In a different comment, I talked about the difficulty I have with pronouns. It’s not because it offends me, it’s because the traditional usage is so hard wired in whatever part of my brain oversees language.
I think most people are fine with it as long as you’re genuinely trying to make the effort to be better.
It’s when your age becomes an excuse to not bother that it becomes a problem.
Sup, fellow XCHWM here. My first thought was to agree and say something about how people’s right to exist and live the life that is normal to them doesn’t depend on anybody understanding or approving it. And assuming it’s peaceful and all that. You know, decent human stuff.
But then I reread your last line and got saddened by imagining the mental state of JKR. Imagine you are not just rich, but an adored famous artist, an American Dream success story, and doubly mega fucking rich to the point that you could just walk around giving random people life-changing amounts of money all day while funding other big amazing shit… and your mind is distracted by anger and fear towards the existence of other people you don’t even know. And now your famous name is attached to that awful attribute.
Completely agree with your broader points, and I know it’s kinda nitpicky but
an American Dream success story
Dis lady hella British.
Irrelevant from the American perspective! People all over the world have access to the American dream!
/s for me. I capitalized it for extra snark. Totally not /s for others in this country though.
Mostly attention issues. She had her big hit, was very famous then that started to fade so tried a dozen different things to stay in the lienlight from bad sequels to bad prequels to publishing bad stories under a fake name, but none if it got her enough attention. So she did what basically every other washed up celebrity does and just be controversial to get attention.
And also I think part of it is that rich, steisght white women, are very privileged but being a woman gives them 1 point in the oppression Olympics so they think their opinions on these issues matters more. Which is why almost all the most outspoken term are middle class strisght white women.
would you look at that? a balanced and nuanced conversation about jk rowling’s legitimate concerns and how to deal with them:
She’s so transparently working backwards from her original knee jerk judgement on her views on gender. I’ve never understood why people feel the need to die on this hill, change is scary sure, but it’s not THAT big a deal is it?
It’s hard and it hurts. Self improvement, especially when you’ve been publicly vocal, requires humbling yourself. It involves accepting shame. And it sounds like in her case it involves reprocessing some trauma. I know who I choose to be, but on a much lesser scale I’ve met plenty like her. Folks who make the choice not to reevaluate their beliefs
Some people need a very structured, simple, well-defined worldview in order to function. Sort of like a computer has to follow a set program or it bluescreens.
‘This person coming towards me is a man. I can tell by his bowler hat and dapper suit. Therefore the correct action is to say ‘good morning sir, nice weather today’.’ And ‘This person coming towards me is a woman. I can tell by her dress and long hair and makeup. She is married based on the ring I see. Therefore the correct action is to say ‘good morning, ma’am, nice weather today’.’
And so on.
A person not presenting clearly as either gender, or isn’t the gender they’re expecting, means the ‘script’ no longer works. They no longer feel sure of what to do, and that lack of control of the situation makes them panicked.
Really, a lot of this, and conservatism in general, comes down to simple structure and control, so these people feel they always know what to do and where they stand.
Because our society is a social contract, and to act wrongly means you get ostracized from society. In ancient times that was practically a death sentence, and I don’t think these folks have ever gotten over that. They fear becoming the ‘outsiders’, left to the wolves and lions.
Shame that they ARE the outsiders now then
I am not sure that just because someone produces sperm vs eggs delineates them as male vs female. You could produce sperm but have endocrinological phenotypes (driven by genes) affect your physiology, so it wouldn’t make sense to keep insisting that one is male then.
Also, how does this definition take into account intersex people who produce both types of eggs? They’re a man? Or woman? What subcriteria would you use to define them, and then why wouldn’t you use that same subcriteria on single-cell producers?
At a socio-political and cultural level, it seems useless to worry about how someone’s sex is defined. There’s no purpose served other than to create a class of people who can conveniently be othered and used as a means to distract from people who are truly damaging to society—the greedy and resource hoarders.
At a fundamental level her argument appears to be “I define biological sex and gender as the same thing, no other definition may exist”.
and she’s using only one characteristic that can be used to determine sex when it doesnt even work alone (other characteristics have to be met, and even if most of them are met, theres probably still exceptions cause biology is fun like that)
I am saying that sex is not necessarily binary either.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to take away from your point at all, you’re very much undermining her entire argument.
No apologies needed, I was just clarifying what I meant ^^
Cissexism often relies on denying the realities of intersex bodies. Or underplaying how common they are.
The reality is biological sex is clustered bimodal traits.
