dandelion (she/her)

misinterpreting the common use of “fuck” as a way to convey disdain as actually articulating a sex-negative attitude is so non-serious it exposes your bad-faith 🙄

are you just upset that you didn’t have anything to offer, and this seemed clever to you?

either way, I’m blocking you for your bad faith; I am happy to waste time engaging with serious people, but I have no time for your silliness (if I can’t tell if you’re a troll, I’ll just assume you are one and block)

fair enough; I tend to just click “reconnect” a few times, it usually only takes a couple tries

but good point about not visiting reddit, lol

btw, they don’t successfully block all VPN users; using mullvad you can just reconnect until you’re on a VPN server that isn’t blocked (in case you still want to access Reddit with a VPN); it seems like they only block certain VPNs, and probably those servers are only getting blocked after users try to hide abuse or bot traffic behind the VPN and they get that server blocked that way

hm, I hear you - but I think that would have to be embedded in the context of the meme; it’s not like anyone knows you are a “cocksucker” (in a non-pejorative sense), let alone that you endorse sucking cock from the memes you share; the homophobic assumption that sucking cock is wrong and taboo is what makes the meme successful, and I don’t think anything changes from the fact that you don’t personally share that view and happen to be creating or sharing the meme

basically the homophobia is in the audience that interprets and receives the meme, the meme succeeds because it plays on that homophobia, and so the meme is “homophobic” in that sense

I have trouble imagining these memes being shared and being popular in the gay communities that I’m a part for that reason - the audience might find the implication that sucking cock is itself wrong as homophobic and uncomfortable, maybe a gay audience would recognize the hypocrisy and also understand the latent homophobia that makes the meme work, but I just don’t imagine it being as popular (and to be honest I’m not seeing it shared in those communities; nor would I personally feel comfortable sharing it in those communities)

it should be clarified that when I point out the homophobia, it’s not meant as some attempt to cancel the memes (let alone to indicate we should protect Trump out of some kind of concern for him as a homosexual), instead I’m just trying to point out reactionary threads, the way misogyny and homophobia are common even in anti-Trump sentiment

fuck Trump, obviously - but I’m not going to follow that up with “the cocksucker”

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to be blunt, I don’t believe you

if you call someone a cocksucker, it’s obviously intended as an insult

telling me actually you think sucking cock is totally fine and it’s actually just about the hypocrisy of the cocksucker is not believable - that’s not why these memes succeed, people are just enjoying labeling Donald Trump as a cocksucker in a pejorative way

Not every joke involving gays, are bashing at homosexuality.

I do think jokes where the entire joke is that Donald Trump sucks dick is intended to be funny because homosexuality is taboo and sucking dick is considered bad, not just to Trump, but to people in general.

it’s too good not to be a joke 😅

still homophobic tho, conservatives are just the wrong people to be calling it out (and if anything conservatives are the ideal target audience for the homophobic memes, since they are the ones most likely to be bothered by their Daddy being a closeted gay)

glad to see homophobia is alive and well

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ha, I’m already unemployed, they screwed themselves on that one

reading that article is heart wrenching

there is such desperation - something has to be done

EDIT: trying to find a group that is helping with the famine, but in the meantime this might be a place where donations could be sent and well used:

https://www.mutualaidmyanmar.org/faqs

The replies in this thread are disturbing, giving me a sense that Lemmy has a misogyny problem; maybe I was naïve, but I expected outrage about 4chan doxxing women trying to protect one another, instead I see lots of revenge enjoyment as if being doxxed on 4chan is justice for … <checks notes> warning one another about dangerous men they encounter when dating?

The inability to empathize and take seriously the threats posed to women or to understand their motivation to protect one another is alarming.

There is no good faith extended, but also no evidence presented that instead of safety the app was just for gossip, it’s just taken as assumed that women are wrong for using Tea and they all deserve to be doxxed.