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Lemmy reacts to a non-sexualized silly outfit pic in a totally normal way…

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (5 children)

i fail to understand how i am very respectable when i try to find a girlfriend yet this misogyny is widely celebrated by some men and some women find it acceptable. is somthing wrong with me?

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[–] PugJesus 78 points 1 week ago (20 children)

"Italians do it better" is an intentional double entendre, so I feel moving to a more sexual commentary is not wholly out of the ballpark of reasonableness.

Fuck "Is this your first day on the internet" response, though, and the other two weird comments.

We really 95% male here, though? I thought it was more like 70-30.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Those are yucky comments anywhere other than an lemmynsfw community or a community with a suggestive name. I can't glean much context from this screenshot of the post but in general, I believe horniness should be kept to horny online places.

We can and should do much better than that.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

based and kindnesspilled

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (8 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Those are yucky comments anywhere other than an lemmynsfw community or a community with a suggestive name.

Or RoastMe if Lemmy has such community, but basically all such communities require you hold up a sign with your username to prove it is actually yourself (good).

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Related to the previous posts bit, but I remember first seeing the Man vs. Bear memes.

I'll admit it was hard not to take it personally at first, because even if you agreed with the core of the message, it feels like you're being lumped in with the worst of menkind for no good reason. That's probably why the reaction was so toxic, because people just replied with their gut reaction, which was to take offence...

But upon giving it a bit of thought, I realised that as a guy who's lived in some dodgy areas, I think I too would oftentimes prefer to take my chances with a bear than alone with a stranger at night - not cause I think I'd beat the bear, but at least you know what the bear's probably gonna do...

And if I feel that way being a man, then considering (on average) women are weaker than men of the same build, I can see why women would feel that way too.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Indian metal band Bloodywood has the best take on the "all men" issue:

Not all men?
Yes all men!
Need all men for what we're solving
Can't be what it's been but we're evolving

The patriarchy privileges every man, which means every man needs to fight the system. If every man who hears the message and isn't an abuser stands up and does something, we can end the patriarchy. It's not "every man is guilty", it's "every man is responsible, and we can end it together."

And the rest of the song is about punching rapists.

[–] TrousersMcPants 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I agree with this and I have absolutely no desire to undermine the problems that women face. However I think it is also important to understand how many men also feel oppressed by the patriarchy as well. Obviously women have been and continue to be oppressed to a far greater and much more literal degree, but so many men feel this immense pressure to "be a man." This frustration at feeling inadequate because of these immense pressures is what makes so many men as dangerous and unpredictable as they are. I really think this is a major part of the issue, we need more men to stand up and realize that they don't have to conform to some shitty societal idea of what masculinity should be, same as how women have been fighting against their own traditional gender roles. Any man who can feel secure in being himself regardless of society's expectations should help the men in his life to understand the same. Maybe then we'd have less insecure, dangerous men running around.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Oh yeah Bloodywood get that. They're an all male band. They also have songs about struggling with suicide and living your own truth

(In Hindi:)
I am not voiceless, I am endurant
I m not a stray rock, I am the founding stone of a mountain
I am not weak, I am forgiving
Within darkness, I am my own light

They are the most positive male role models you can imagine, openly talking about personal struggle and about the things they told themself to overcome those struggles.

And they also think the working class should rise up and redistribute wealth. They've used the proceeds from their tours to help homeless animals and pay for counselling for young people. They say if the conditions faced by the poorest in society don't change, the owning class should expect a riot. "No flag on my bulletproof vest".

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

this is so sick ty for sharing

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fuck every man for himself
It's every man for every man
And everybody else
Everybody else

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

By the way, their most popular song is about politicians who use religion to divide people. It's called Gadaar, which is Hindi for Traitor.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

hell yeah dude. it’s an uncomfortable conclusion to draw, but it’s an uncomfortable reality we live in.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago

Love getting the wakeup call that just because something is part of the fediverse it is not inherently good or perfekt and still needs work (in regards of the humans that join)

[–] NickwithaC 28 points 1 week ago

Shit misogynists say

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

[email protected] has a big problem with openly misogynistic users making “jokes” in the comments.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The men ain't sending their best, folks.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

They’re sending rapists—and some of us, I assume, are good people

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[–] TotallynotJessica 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Which instance was this on?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

[email protected] which someone else said has a problem with this sort of thing. wasn’t personally aware it was localized.

[–] TotallynotJessica 18 points 1 week ago

.world users suck compared to blahaj.zone. With .ml, you get tankies, but with .world, you get more transphobes and lib normies. I spend all my time here, getting shocked by what's normalized when I visit other instances. The people here can be horny, but are much more likely to respect boundaries if told.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Oh shit, I've seen this (yours) post a few hours ago, but just now I noticed that's Lemmy...
I thought that was from Reddit at first.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

i miss [bigotry showcase] it made me feel like i was on the sane part of the internet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Reminds me of the days of circlebroke and srs. It was always nice realizing that I wasn't alone in thinking the comments of a post on my frontpage were rancid.

I'd offer to maintain something similar myself but I know myself well enough that it would slip my mind after a few weeks.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What happens when you group all chronically online nerds in one place (twice not going outside and talking to girls)

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

tbh put some respect on the name of chronically online nerds- that describes like a ton of my friends who would never say this shit lmao

these guys are like a really sad subsection of that group

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Might start with the letter I and end with the letter L

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Has that picture cropped off the S or a comma?

Is it "Italians do it better" or "Italian, do it better'

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

it’s the full plural “italians” like in the madonna music video

[–] HessiaNerd 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Who is this? They look familiar.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Prominent YouTuber and OnlyFans model Trisha Paytas

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

trisha paytas! she was on SNL (for like ten seconds) the other day

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