I hate to bring up the antiwork drama again and fuck that mod for being a sex pest, but before I heard about their wrong doing I was a bit excited to see someone who was trans, neurodivergent, not traditionally beautiful, and underemployed finally getting a say at something. For like a brief second I felt the least bit of representation. Then they started getting attacked for how they looked, for being trans, for not being an alpha chad roughneck oil worker, etc. and it became a shitshow.
See, the moment I saw they were trans I was like “oh no” because I knew that was going to be the thing they would latch on to. I honestly wonder if Fox News didn’t pick them for precisely that reason.
A guy being cringe is just a guy being cringe, but a trans person being cringe is because all trans people are cringe.
A guy being cringe is just a guy being cringe, but a trans person being cringe is because all trans people are cringe.
That shit effects anyone who isn’t white and straight and is honestly one of the most obvious aspects of white and cishet privilege.
Around Christmas my cousin was talking about how they listen to various political talk radio shows to “get a broad understanding sniff” he talked about the right wing show, the ‘left’ wing show, and then He said “there’s a black political show” he listened to and that “the blacks were mad” about something and like fuckin lol, ok all black people feel this way bc some guy on satellite radio said something. :lmayo:
Your cousin sounds like this old friend of mine who I rarely catch up with anymore. He has caught the anti-woke brain worms. After getting called out for his narrow views (by a couple of his Exes) he expanded his purview by listening to “a Black podcast.” His choice? Bad Faith. He listened to the episode where a panel questioned Why White people liked the Beatles so much when they aren’t very good. He took it all very literally and responds to everything in a very debate bro, logic™ manner without seeing the larger conditions.
I honestly wonder if Fox News didn’t pick them for precisely that reason.
If they did it’s smart on their part. Who knows honestly.
She picked herself. Fox just sent a request asking to interview someone from /r/antiwork.
The interviewer wasn’t even cruel. He was oddly sympathetic. He just let her hang herself with her own rope. It was like watching a car crash in slow motion, the bodies jerk forward and slam into the dash.
Yeah if she was a muscular white miner no one would’ve cared about “representation”. Hell they wouldn’t even care about they walking dogs for a living. Clearly shows what the sub thinks about who can have a voice.
BTW there’s a post pinned about wage inequality for trans people on r/antiwork steadily being downvoted as well.
https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/ It’s the second pinned post
Yeah like the :le-pol-face: seems a bit childish to me because it’s literally just “you are ugly, therefore wrong”
I was legit pondering that emote a few days ago, like I get it, we all know guys like that but they should be dunked on for their opinions and politics not because they look like the Virgin Incel caricature
Edit: like that picture is of a dude, of a person, and I guess we think it’s okay
IIRC The original picture does come from someone who posted Nazi garbage on 4chan.
The original picture is of a mass shooter who gunned down several people at a Walmart
I thought the Zenz emote was for like mocking anti-china stuff obviously written by him and not about how he looked?
I would very much like to see “manlet” banned lol
Like, it’s not cool to imply someone is not their gender or a lesser form of that gender because they are short. This site will go all-in on being welcoming to trans people but if you’re short you’re gonna get made fun of.
Such a weird hang-up too. Like sometimes it’ll be someone who’s like 5’10 and I’ll see people calling them short. I honestly can’t tell if it’s some weird projection shit or what.
I find manlet really annoying because I have been called it a couple times, usually by women while men would just call me short, despite being above average height. I am not a “manly man” or hypermasculine in any way, so being told I was failing at that because I was too short when I wasn’t almost felt like being misgendered, or at least how I assume it would feel.
Most of our commie heroes were short kings. I agree we should retire that one.
Yeah fuck “manlet”
I’m slightly above average height but that shit is just so stupid
Like holy fuck I’d like to see how those types treat people with dwarfism. Like are you really such a fascist that the particular length of someone’s femurs are hanging you the fuck up mentally
The funniest shit is that in the US, 6 feet is a round number, so below that is supposed to be “short” for men. But in the rest of the world, even places where people are taller on average, 180cm is a round number and that’s the cutoff - 5 foot 10.8 inches
From what I can tell we are mostly 4chan, reddit, and SA expats. I think there are a couple people from tumbler as well? Idk. Anyways, as such there are large body shaming tendencies within those forums, much in case due to strong liftbro cultures, both ironic and not. I myself suffer from doing so sometimes, but my general sense of body humor comes from men who brand themselves within a certain body type and are not that (though I do not touch body issues around women because I don’t personally find them funny unless the teller has an extra-ordinary sense of irony (i.e. Cumtown) or is feminine presenting).
That said, maybe it is time to do something about it. I’m for accommodating people’s sensibilities, but there is quite a bit of ironic shit posting on here that has body shit as part of the set up. I will say that a ban does fit into our anti-horny policy, but people ironically flaunt that too.
Idk how much it will matter, and it might just cause fights. It is something that may need to be left up to the community, or the mods can dictate it. Tough call.
