• @doingless@lemmy.world
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      I try to speak respectfully to whoever I speak to and that includes using pronouns they want so getting it wrong is always unintentional. But I’ll still always speak to any group of people as “you guys”. I use that speaking to my 16 yo daughter and her girl friends. It’s just not gendered speech, and I know some disagree but whatever

  • The Stoned Hacker
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    I disagree for one reason.

    My uncle was being homophobic and transphobic so I started to misgender him so he could see what its like.

    Unsure if he’s less bigoted now but he definitely got quite upset and it made the point to everyone else around at least.

  • NutWrench
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    The purpose of language is to reveal and convey meaning and thought. Euphemisms and euphemistic language are designed to control how you talk about certain subjects and consequently, how you think about them. People who try to control how you think NEVER have anyone’s “best interests” in mind but their own.

    Don’t let other people tell you how to manage your own head.

  • @Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml
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    That guy, who said we could use slurs for good. What happened to him? Last time I checked he was defending a white supremacist terrorist.

  • Mario_Dies.wav
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    I remember people on reddit misgendering that antiwork mod for the crime of [checks notes] a botched interview on Fox News that didn’t even fucking matter.

    It was an ugly thing to see all that transphobia out in the open like that.

    • @li10@lemmy.ml
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      That was a colossal fuck up of an interview though, made the entire anti work community look like a load of stupid freeloaders.

      Absolutely no excuse for the misgendering or any harassment, but I still wouldn’t undersell how bad that interview was.

        • @grte@lemmy.ca
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          It was a Fox News interview. If the person who did the interview came off well they wouldn’t have bothered airing it. Hell, if the person they interviewed didn’t come off the way they did they wouldn’t have bothered interviewing them.

          • @TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee
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            I mean I agree Fox News will pick apart anything that they get, that’s just the nature of the beast. But the whole discussion in the antiwork community was that whoever did the interview needed to be prepared for that and give them as little ammunition as possible, while presenting the beliefs of the antiwork/workreform movement.

            Instead, one of the users (a mod I think?) took the interview without further input from the community, had dirty clothes in the background, and was an easy target for the Fox News crowd.

            Idk, it was really unfortunate, and the movement had started to gain serious momentum. It could’ve been a lightning in a bottle opportunity, and they fucked it up

            • @grte@lemmy.ca
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              This is what I’m getting at, though. If the interviewee didn’t fit the checklist of stereotypes Fox News was looking for, there wouldn’t have been an interview aired. It was a hit piece. Fox News went looking for a way to run a segment discrediting a movement, and found one.

        • GrayoxOP
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          It really is hard to understate how bad the interview was, that’s what makes the misgendering even worse, there were so many other things to critique…

      • @agitatedpotato@lemmy.world
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        Ive seen this community making fun of people for their weight or claiming people have small dicks when they do something they dont like so not really. Point proven though, yall don’t care about body shaming.

        • Cowbee [he/they]
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          So you’re generalizing, then pretending to take the moral high ground on a non-existant issue just to avoid agreeing that people shouldn’t be misgendered, imagining a non-existant level of hypocrisy?

          • @agitatedpotato@lemmy.world
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            Where did I avoid agreeing with the post? If you’re curious about something ask me instead of assuming based on nothing. Bodyshaming is wrong and it happens here, that’s not non-existent. Thats the message, do you take offense to that because you seem real preseed to make accusations.

            • Cowbee [he/they]
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              The meme is calling out people using misgendering as a punishment. You’re then attacking people who point this out as guilty of hypocrisy by saying “they” are fine with bodyshaming.

              Bodyshaming is wrong, yes, nobody brought that up except yourself and only as a way to attack some vague hypocrisy in an imagined enemy.

              • @agitatedpotato@lemmy.world
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                Again, I see bodyshaming happening here, thats not an imagined enemy unless you dont know what words mean. You’re talking over me now and ignoreing what im saying, this being the third time I’m telling you it happens here so you can pretend im talking about no one. Stop with the intelectual dishonesty.

                What I am doing is poiting out a similar punishment people do for bodyshaming, and for the fourth time, it happens on this very website. That makes it relevant no matter how mad you are about that. You wont even ask me about the original post after I told you to instead of assuming because then you won’t be able to pretend im attacking anyone other that the hypocrites, who again exist on this site. Did I say it enough this time?

                • Cowbee [he/they]
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                  Show me. Show me where there is an overlap of people who think bodyshaming is okay and misgendering is not. Humans aren’t a monolith.

      • @june@lemmy.world
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        11 year ago

        No. I don’t think it’s awkward. At all.

        The only person whose weight and body is your business is your own. My body isn’t your business. Your neighbor’s body isn’t your business. Your coworkers body isn’t your business. It’s not your business and your opinion doesn’t matter about any body but your own.

        So how about this… let’s just not talk about each other’s bodies and let people be who and what they are. Fat people have enough shit to deal with already and they don’t need shit from you too, whether it’s ’support in losing weight’ or criticism.

        • @Gabu@lemmy.world
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          So if I decide to attach a bunch of lead weights to my body and enter the same elevator as you, it’s only my business, is it?