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[–] captainlezbian 8 points 1 year ago

One big problem I have with online safety bills these people are proposing is that I just don’t think they’ll work. Like it’s a censorship law and politicians are rarely the sort of people who date people due to them being kind, moral, and smart. And they sure ain’t faithful to them.

Additionally I doubt that these proposed changes will improve things. Hating your belly doesn’t come from porn. It absolutely does come in part from the diet industry. But it also comes from being in a culture where “no fat chicks” was a jokey tshirt. The internet didn’t introduce girls to this culture it made it so the people who wear those shirts can talk about how it’s basic cico and mock fat women and basically be immature high schoolers talking about girls (or boys) forever including in your inbox. Meanwhile socially well adjusted adults aren’t using social media like this and are leaving the places the young and immature hang out. Seriously I don’t want to tell kids how as I get older, older women keep looking better and better. We have over a century of telling everyone that that healthy bit of belly that comes from not being starved and dehydrated is too much. And now everyone is talking all the time.

Like seriously I don’t know how we can stop the harassment and body image issues because this clearly isn’t just porn. It means that every creep from Edinburgh to Canberra to Ottawa can be in your inbox if you post a picture. It’s shit like gamergate and it’s consequences. And the whole digital editing thing? Cool but a lot can be done with practical effects and camera work. And I fear it will just be used to police women’s bodies. Does this mean that every incredibly endowed woman is going to have to repeatedly prove that no she really does just have immense back pain?

And then past it all, every hopeless young woman I’ve met isn’t hopeless because of that, she’s hopeless because the environment is fucked and nobody is fixing it. Likewise for the economy.