• Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.worldEnglish
        383·
        4 months ago

        The original phrase is pretty lame anyway. If you can’t do a thing, how can you be expected to teach it? I’d rather have a teacher that actually knows how to do the thing they’re trying to teach me.

  • Vegafjord oakframer@lemmy.mlEnglish
    9·
    4 months ago

    The thing is that if we challenge the machine, it gets noted immidiately as being aggressive. The reason for this is because language is normalizing machine thinking. What will push workers in line, what will cool the bloom of the masses, what will paint the mighty as delightful, what will alienate us from our peers and nature.

    By taking guardianship for our languages, challenging our everyday words, we normalize the meaningful, normalize humanity.

  • nile_istic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    4 months ago

    My dumb optimistic ass scrolling to the comments under this post thinking “maybe this time iT wOn’T bE sO bAd” lmao

  • ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1421·
    4 months ago

    Surely she could have thought of a third position between those two so that a dial actually makes sense, over a switch.

    Charitably-interpreted, it could be an impressively self-aware piece on the binary thinking of ideologues, to genuinely feel there is literally zero middle ground between those two extremes. But she probably actually feels that way.

    It is possible to support a cause, even emphatically, without being insufferable. I’m reminded of an occasion a number of years back, when a friend of a friend tagging along with our group for the first time who, just after we all (group of 8-9) sat down to order dinner, ranted for minutes, completely unprompted, about how chairs are shaped in a misogynistic way, which led into the nonsensical claim that the only reason males tend to sit with their knees further apart than females, is as a deliberate act of patriarchal intimidation, not simply because the difference in pelvis shape makes those positions more comfortable/default for those bodies. There was no consideration of the fact that this difference exists just as much in men and women sitting alone at home, as it does in crowded public spaces.

    This is all to say I have a feeling, especially based on her reaction to it, that the teacher’s comment was in response to something closer to the above, than to something like ‘a job shouldn’t pay someone less just because she’s a woman’.

    P.S. This post is from 2018, for anyone who thinks it’s a recent happening, or anyone else who saw this and thought it looked familiar.

    • Pacattack57@lemmy.worldEnglish
      232·
      4 months ago

      You misunderstood it. It’s a dial with infinite positions in between the two positions. All the way to the left is being “complicit in her dehumanization” so moving the dial at all would be inching closer and closer to her dehumanization. It’s a brilliant piece.

      • ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.worldEnglish
        516·
        4 months ago

        You misunderstood it. It’s a dial with infinite positions in between the two positions. All the way to the left is being “complicit in her dehumanization” so moving the dial at all would be inching closer and closer to her dehumanization.

        But as my anecdote exemplifies, it is absolutely possible to move away from ‘raging feminist’ without moving one iota closer to ‘complicit in dehumanization’. Those two things are absolutely not at opposite ends of a spectrum, objectively.

        It’s a brilliant piece.

        Can’t agree, but you’re welcome to your opinion.

    • flying_sheep@lemmy.mlEnglish
      152·
      4 months ago

      You’re making a great point in favor of ramping up feminism. Like wow I didn’t realize it was that necessary to speak out for it here.

      • minorkeys@lemmy.worldBannedEnglish
        111·
        4 months ago

        So go even more overboard? I actually 100% agree. The faster feminist rhetoric jumps the shark, the better. Go at it as far as possible y’all.

  • tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    214·
    4 months ago

    Why even show it to this guy? You need to change his mind? Instead of the million people out there who arent total douches?