བོད་རྒྱལ་ལོ།

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  • nyamlae@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldFacts
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    2 months ago

    But, like everything, context matters and I believe directing harm towards “bad” people is “good”

    That’s not what bodyshaming does, though.

    If you punch or kill a nazi, that harms the nazi.

    If you joke about nazis compensating for having a small dick, then you are reinforcing the idea that small dicks are bad and something that needs to be compensated for. This harms people with small penises.

    In addition, lots of nazis will have average or big dicks, and will find this kind of post laughable and irrelevant. It’s not even harming them.

    So, this post mainly stigmatizes men with a certain body type, and not nazis. This is not good praxis.


  • These are not “stages”, these are just different activities. Lots of people don’t have kids, but this doesn’t make them at a lower “stage”. Not everyone wants to climb some kind of career ladder, nor does everyone respect those who do. Not everyone gets married, nor does everyone even care about marriage. People live differently – they do not progress through stages.



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    “Bro” I am a gay man. I love small penises. This post is reinforcing stigma around small penises, by associating them with white nationalism.

    It’s weird to make jokes about them. People don’t need to make up for having a small penis, because it’s not a flaw, so there is literally no basis for this joke other than toxic masculinity.








  • These comments are crazy lol.

    The idea of “shallowness” is stupid. It’s a normal part of human attraction to prefer people that are visually attractive, so it’s unusual when people ignore that and take conventionally unattractive partners.

    It’s similar to having a partner who’s kind of an asshole. Why would you do that? Cuz they’re hot? It’s just as odd and one-sided in the reverse.

    Now, if you just find conventionally unattractive people to be attractive, then that’s another story – that would show that you’re not making excuses for ignoring basic elements of human attraction.

    Also, if you truly don’t value physical attractiveness to the degree that other people do, and are not just saying that to cope with having a less beautiful partner, then that’s totally fair. People are just commenting on it because for most people, physical beauty is a core part of attraction, and ignoring that fact is a big sign of denial and deeper unhappiness. But if that doesn’t apply to you, then rock on.






  • It has to do with the societal consequences of how them “valuing their time” impacts people. Nurses refusing to do volunteer nursing has little impact on the overall system of access to healthcare.

    Healthcare is heavily regulated through legislation, and is going to be free or paid or corporate or not corporate largely as a result of the legislation. Nurses can’t just do what they want. People who are concerned about the state of healthcare should therefore change things by targeting legislation, not by targeting nurses.

    Creative work is not like this. Creatives refusing to do do volunteer creative work means that either they will charge for their work, which creates a barrier to access, or they will use (and push others to use) platforms like YouTube and TokTok that make money from ad data.

    The former choice results in class differences in access to art, and the latter choice results in everyone using platforms that have proven themselves to be hostile to minoritized groups and progressive causes. These outcomes aren’t legislated – they are the result of creatives choosing to “value their time”.

    In otherwords, creatives choosing to “value their time” means that they will happily enforce class-based restrictions in access to art, and will happily support conservative corporations and surveillance capitalism.

    And I practice what I preach, too. I have spent thousands of hours developing free software and making free educational materials for people, donating my labour to support progressive causes and supporting others who do the same. Creatives who insist on charging for their work are a ball and chain on the movements I support. They are leeches and class traitors.

    Creatives should value other people. Fuck their time.


  • No, my point specifically relates to creative work. You said in your comment:

    under our current economic model people require money to survive and if they do not get money for doing their creative work they might not be able to continue making that work.

    This is false, basically. They can do other types of work. Creative work can be done without making money for it. Plenty of people have a day job and make creative work in their free time. The same option is not available for most other types of work, such as government, doctors, lawyers, etc. If you try to do these types of jobs outside of the framework of a regulated business, you’ll get the book thrown at you.

    The issue I’m getting at isn’t “are you responsible for the actions you take to make a living”. Rather, I’m getting at the issue of “does creative work require becoming an employee of a capitalist company, thereby siding with its shareholders in having a vested interest in increasing that company’s profits regardless of the societal damage caused?”

    The answer to that question is a resounding “no”. Creatives need to grow a spine and get a day job.



  • It is not selfish to want to be payed for working on something like a video that in some cases takes hundreds of man hours of work to complete

    Yes, it is, if your desire to get paid causes you to remain on corporate-controlled social media, to the detriment of society.

    Not to mention, plenty of people can and do put hundreds of hours of work into projects that they don’t ask for payment for.

    “Content creators” who get paid through advertisements are class traitors whose interests are aligned with the capitalist class. They will fuck over society to make a buck for themselves.