Looks like my account was banned/restricted for the above interaction, have already sent the mods on world an email asking if they'd be willing to reverse that. Had an episode of psychosis a few months ago where I did say some offensive stuff, (understandably) got a 3 month ban on .lol for that, so could see my account having been flagged.
I uh, I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect people to check others profiles to ensure we are correctly pronouning them… when making a throw away comment that is less than 10 words involving a ludicrously common saying. Jerboa does not show users pronouns. I could switch to an app that DOES show the pronouns, do any Lemmings have a recommendation for a free Lemmy mobile app that has that feature?
Edit: Edie chimed in, Jerboa does show pronouns. It's a formatting issue with mobile vs browser (She has them on individual text lines so they don't appear on mobile).
Was just going to respond to the user in question to let them know I wasn't purposefully trying to offend that individual, to discover I'm not able to post or make comments on world now, so figured I'd see what y'alls opinion on the matter is.
I don’t think it’s necessary to check every profile for potential pitfalls when interacting with them. But honestly, in this case there is an obvious transgender flag in the profile name that should make you at least question your first assumption.
What percentage of the populace do you think knows what the transgender flag looks like? :|
is this ragebait or something
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What do your racist ideas of a homogenous global south with no queers have to do with this. Literally why say this.
You said it yourself in this comment. There aren't queers there. Well, there are. They just aren't treated very well if they're open about it, to my knowledge. Logically, if a culture is "not there", or in this context, being legally and culturally suppressed, I doubt there is going to be much awareness about things like which letters in LGBTQ+ corresponds to which flag. Id be happy to read something that you think would be enlightening on the subject.
Shut the fuck up cracker, there's no "reading" which can cover such vastly different regions of the world with their own queer histories. By bringing up your orientalist ideas of the global south you're only proving your own stupidity. You clearly exist in a context in which the trans flag is common and a clear indicator to pay special regards to that user's pronouns, and instead of just apologizing and moving on you're making a mockery of yourself by trying to use your own racism to disguise your transphobia.
Someone got mad enough to report you for this lmaooooo
LOL crackers stay mad
What did the report say?
Just quoted the cracker line and that was it. Low effort, deeply unserious
Your "knowledge" is years of reddit threads and a lifetime of immersion in US imperial propaganda meant to dehumanize its enemies while justifying its own endless violent interventions.
Before lgbtq rights, the excuse was spreading democracy, and before that it was "bringing civillization." The truth is, the US doesn't give a shit about their rights, it only cares about using them as an excuse for mass murder. They actively make life more dangerous for queer people around the world by using queerness as a human shield for their activities, same as Isreal does with jewishness, tying them together in the eyes of a casual observer, lying to its victims that "we are bombing you because you are homophobic/antisemetic and we are Jewish/queer" while it simply bombs them for their land and resources.
America does not defend queer people, it puppets them into the line of fire.
It'd be like if I kept you in a basement for 20 years, then murdered an entire neighborhood of people, then put up a billboard saying "I did this so ToucheGoodSir could have a place to live, because I love him."
And then other people looked at that billboard and said "wow, that ShimmeringKoi sure treats his friends well."
On top of all that America also just actively persecutes queer people. People will say "oh that's just the republicans" as if that isn't half the country and it's not just the republicans, but a large group of democrats. Then they'll say "oh, but we're not as bad as [enemy of the week]" which funnily enough is actually a whatabouterismerino, but also not really a valid argument if you're saying it's okay to bomb a country if they're mean to queer people. So it's okay to be kinda mean to queer people?
On top of that there's also the fact that some of the US' closest allies are countries like Saudi Arabia, not to mention the many far right anti-lgbtq dictators the state has installed over the years.
On top of that the US has only recently gotten "good" on queer rights. Homosexuality wasn't decriminalised in the whole of the US until 2003 (and we're not talking some weird little forgotten law, it wasn't until a supreme court decision forced several states to finally stop being bigoted.)
At the same time the GDR had decriminalised homosexuality by 1957 and with constitutional reform fully legal by 1968
The GDR did this despite inheriting the nazis legal code (according to a wikipedia source which I will not fact check.)
Would it have been acceptable, nay morally right, for the GDR to bomb the US?
The jpe link is missing a g.
You = no brain
Therefore you should shut up forever
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Does the term come from the comic or is that comic just someone who decided to illustrate what the term meant? I have seen the whole comic, I'm more asking about a chicken-egg thing, out of curiosity.
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That's fucking funny. That's like the online debatebro version of idolizing Tony Montana
One of the things I love about hexbear is that people are very good at pointing out when this happens and pursuing the user. I've personally had a lot of fun doing that stuff too. Lots of scratched libs.
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I saw scarface for the first time recently and I do not get how they could miss the point so heavily. He tries to fuck his sister ffs
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Yeah I sometimes think of a comic that was about how videogame developers often make the bad guys have the saddest outfits and then wonder why people like the bad guys. There's a reason why "weird" made chuds mad and it's that it wasn't cool
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Probably one of the big reasons so many scratched libs dislike hexbear is because they don't get treated with respect and instead get called dorks (which is a good thing). Had we just gone about being civil, then they wouldn't give a shit what we think (because they could then ignore it and treat it like they treat all other opinions, like something that should be put away before someone gets hurt)
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Yeah a lot of the times calling bloodmouths that was them thinking it was a "cool insult"
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I can't wait for andor season 2.
They also made the bad guys look like dweebs. The sad cereal with blue milk scene while he was berated by his mother was just
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Love it every time I see it. I wonder if the author knew they'd get a concept named after it. Sort of like the Bechdel test I guess
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The guys behind Penny Arcade are a bit of an enigma to me. I liked them when I was young, the I reread some of their comics and came to think of them as dicks, but at that point they themselves had also matured - or at least seems like they have.
They were very 2000/2010's-core
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I haven't seen them in years, but I loved Loading Ready Run and they made a reality show together that was pretty good. I was an edgy teen and thought dickwolvves were funny. About 2 years ago I remembered penny arcade existed and checked them out again, I don't remember any of their comics which probably means they're not egregious. I looked into the dickwolf saga and jfc
I think they might just have learned to shut up, which is the best wee can hope for with most libs
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China has cities bigger than New York that are pretty trans-positive. These entities aren't monolithic in their values, and in fact I would say they are more diverse in their values for better and for worse, compared to the US. What you are referring to is a cartoon perspective on these ~dozen countries spoon fed to you by western chauvinists.
I've lived in at least one of the countries you've mentioned. LGBTQ+ people exist and live in the same capacity they do in western Europe and North America. It seems ridiculous for a westerner to try to implicate global majority countries for queerphobia when the US and UK are currently on a trans exterminatory cultural rampage. Stones in glass houses shit.
Ha, there it is, couldn't resist propagandizing for long using the same excuse currently being used to justify the genocide of Palsetinians
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Better than yanks
They also have hypersonic missiles to kill you when you continue slandering them
How many LGBTQ+ people in Gaza are being murdered by bombs dropped by Israel and supplied by the US?
Most of it, but that has nothing to do with you and is just a meagre deflection. The right response would have been "whoops my bad, didn't notice that, I'll do better next time" or a variation thereof.
Shifting the discussion as you are trying to do is just poor behaviour that makes your alleged genuine questions seem much less so. Sort of how like when I misgender someone I don't go and make a big fuss about it, dig my heels in and try to start a discussion about morality or expectations. I correct my mistake and thank the person for informing me of it. It's not a big deal unless you make it one, which you've done
Do trans men have a different flag?
I don't think there is. The transgender flag is for anyone that is trans. There are transfemme and transmasc specific flags (though they aren't in Unicode so they can't be used like I do the trans flag). Do note that transfemme / -masc does not mean transgender woman and man, they describe how one would like to present and/or express themselves.