spaduf

spaduf, 7 days ago

Love to see unique features for piefed. So many different ways to tackle “threadiverse” as a project and I think we’re all better off with some experimentation

spaduf, 11 days ago

Big fan of this show. Went in with minimal expectations and found my new favorite show. Hope it doesn’t go the way of lost

spaduf, 11 days ago

Have you checked out !lemmybewholesome

spaduf, 12 days ago

Terrorist attacks are not more likely to be committed by somebody you know intimately than anybody else.

spaduf, 12 days ago

Swing and a miss, mate. Many people who have a problem with the name feminism are nonbinary people, who want equality but have been excluded from the movement by enbyphobic women, AKA TERFs.

I’m not sure the mere existence of TERFs has led to any significant movement to rename feminism among the NB community.

spaduf, 12 days ago (edited 12 days ago)

You’re being downvoted, but even though most wouldn’t express it explicitly, men consistently demonstrate a very similar danger response to other men as women.

spaduf, 12 days ago (edited 12 days ago)

The debate around terminology for spaces intended for women (and the tendency for folks to make nebulous assertions about the inclusion of NBs) seems to me to be an entirely separate issue.

Fundamentally, I see what you’re saying but I’d like to push back on the idea that the term “feminism” needs rethinking at this point in time.

I’d even go so far as to say the parent comment where a rejection of the term feminism is portrayed as tantamount to “all lives matter” is more correct than the idea that “feminism” is a poor term because it feels like misgendering. This is a space centered around the idea that feminism is good for men because feminism is not a term that should leave you feeling gendered in it’s primary usage.

spaduf, 12 days ago

Throwing out feminism because it does not essentialise trans and NB rights feels like very poor praxis. From the perspective of one individual assessing the views of another, I don’t disagree with your metric, but I disagree with your application of the ideas to the broader movement. Particularly in so far as it grants to right wingers that feminism is a sexist term.

spaduf, 12 days ago

It’s not that there must be a class that suffers, it’s that there is.

spaduf, 12 days ago

Well this is a debate about prescriptivism vs descriptivism, right?

No I don’t think so.

You’re arguing we should stick to the “intended” meaning. But at what point does denying the evolution of language to become more transphobic deny the genuine harms suffered by trans people?

I’m arguing that your particular claimed usage of feminism as a transphobic term (that is, the general inclusion of NBs as a class for whom feminism benefits is tantamount to gendering them female) simply doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. This is distinct from the issue of women’s spaces explicitly including NBs feels like misgendering (which is valid).

The premise of this community is fundamentally dependent on the idea that being a beneficiary of feminism MUST be entirely seperate from being gendered female.

spaduf, 12 days ago

Many people who have a problem with the name feminism are nonbinary people, who want equality but have been excluded from the movement by enbyphobic women, AKA TERFs.

I assert that the quantity of nbs who hold this opinion is so small as to be negligable and that ceding a major right wing talking point for gender equity for nbs (a group in which I, and the majority of my social circle are a part of) is mostly just ceding a right wing talking point.

Put another way, the idea that “feminism” is an insufficient term is tantamount to “all lives matter”.

spaduf, 9 days ago

The major difference is that it’s modular. So you can pick and choose which traditional social network features you want to use.

spaduf, 13 days ago

My opinion is yes. That existing subscriber base goes a long way towards jumpstarting an active community

spaduf, 16 days ago

Love this guy. Also a big fan of his song cancer