Yeah, to be honest in my online travels these last couple of years, I’ve even seen prejudiced talk regarding sexual attraction coming from people under the non-binary umbrella. Something that I thought I understood early on is that gender identity and sexual attraction are not the same thing and it can be disheartening and doubt inspiring when people in the circles that you are learning from link the two together.

Do people think that the more specific labels and variations are the reason for the hate? Because as someone who only actually started looking up terminology and familiarising myself with the people late in life, and has walked amongst closed minded conservative people, they don’t know or care about anything outside of ‘gay’ or ‘trans’. Even non-binary is an alien concept to most.

It doesn’t matter what the label is or what the colours are, people who hate anything out of the norm are going to hate anything out of the norm regardless. Especially when they’ve been raised in a religion that teaches them from childhood that anyone out of the norm is going to burn and suffer for eternity. They don’t do research so that they know what they’re talking about and they don’t bother to ever actually get to know any of the people they claim to hate. They just like to hate.

If they weren’t going after trans people right now, they would be going after gay people. And you can bet that’s next anyway. Have people already forgotten how gay people were treated before trans people were the target?

The way I see it, is that the rules and aim of the instance are all written out pretty fucking clearly and people on a platform dominated by longform text don’t really have an excuse for not being able to comprehend it. Like seriously, I had been using Lemmy for two days when I checked out Blåhaj, and I feel like I understood then already because it’s not hard and English is my native language.

So that said, when I see people complaining about it, I think they’re either fucking stupid, or they’re probably these ‘free speech’ people that want the right to go around insulting everyone without consequences (while doing the most epic pearl clutching the moment anyone insults them).

As far as I’m concerned, moderators and admins doing exactly what is clearly fucking written in the description and rules is not power abuse.

move away from the dominance of small dollar donors

I’m not American, so I’m doing some guesswork here. But “dominance” and “small dollar” to me suggests that these are donations from the people (including the working class) that they’re wanting to connect with. So to me, this sentence sounds like they’re going to 100% embrace big corporate donors and leave the regular people out in the cold.

Interesting strategy.

I’ve been playing around with Facebook for the last couple of weeks and the censorship is so crazy these days is isn’t funny. But only if you post anti Trump and Elon content, even as a non American. I’ve already had a couple of posts flagged for ‘misinformation’ since after Zuckerberg made this announcement and I’ve seen it happening to other actual Americans too. These ‘free speech’ people are all fucking jokes and liars and the biggest pearl clutchers whenever someone exercises their free speech to speak against them.

Yup. And I think that once again, a large part of this is the influence of the ‘manosphere’ putting bullshit into their heads.

There’s been a couple of occasions having this conversation where people respond to me and say they don’t listen to Jordan Peterson or whatever but they’re still lonely. But then they’ll say something like “I need marriage and children to be a complete human being or else I’m a failure in life. And I’ve been robbed.” I mean, what the fuck. They’re just kids or young adults.

So these guys are attempting relationships with all of this heavy shit about marriage and children and status and ownership in mind and chasing people away. I would run away too if someone started making wedding plans on the second date. And they’re not looking for a person that they get along with and can spend the rest of their life with, they’re looking for someone who can make their babies for them. Ewww.

Honestly sometimes this ‘manosphere’ shit is a little bit like purity culture. And it sometimes reminds me of some of the more cultish churches I’ve come across that push 18 year old kids who are dating into early marriage or else they’re “living in sin”. In fact I’m pretty sure that there’s a religious right wing agenda behind it.

These kids need to stop clutching their pearls and acting like religious fanatics and just have some fucking fun. Go into things with zero expectations. Have one night stands. Enjoy their youth. And if in the process of that, they meet ‘the one’, then that’s a bonus. They don’t need to be tied down with kids and bills to pay by the time they’re 21 just to be seen as any more of a ‘man’. In fact that would just be sad.