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I've sadly ran into this kind of thing before.
I'll never forget the assholes I found on Reddit who tried to say that it's wrong to push for LGBT Rights especially outside of the US because it was "Pushing Western Values where they don't belong, like a colonizer!"
These people will come up with any excuse to be dickbutts.
LGBT Rights are based and cool, and anyone who unironically uses the term "Biological Male" is not arguing in good faith
LGBT Rights are based and cool
depends, but in general they are
and anyone who unironically uses the term “Biological Male” is not arguing in good faith
I disagree on this
"biological male" is if anything bad description of reality. A trans woman who has been on hormone therapy for a couple of years is biologically closer to cisgender women than cisgender men. And even more so if they've had surgeries. But usually people who use that term don't care and lump everyone who was assigned male at birth into that category.
I could attribute this term to ignorance because it sounds reasonable, but it's far too often used to exclude trans women from spaces that other women belong
That’s a beautiful way of seeing it indeed, you convinced me
My point was just to say that in very specific cases it can be used to make it clear that the person is born male but I guess the cisgender and transgender terms are now relatively well known
It’s still easier to explain some things with this word, but I wouldn’t use it socially of course
You nailed the problem: it is often used for bad reasons and thus people categorize people saying this word, which is highly invalid imo and shouldn’t be criminalized this way when the context is appropriate
But yea, now even scientific literature pretty much abandoned this word
Clearly choosing to not include this in order to keep bashing on. Maybe spez is a better option for you?
He's still doubling down and recently said he has no need to apologize or learn better because "I can never make anyone happy no matter what they make me say, I have work to do."
If you really are concerned perhaps fork it then ? If the purity tests are not good enough for you to use a service, what do you use , I would love to get a list. Or is it just for Foss projects that's provided for free you have the purity tests for?
I use GOS , and did so when it was a really toxic community a few years back.
linux is also problematic here and there. Wikipedia I just donated to also. Hell I don't think there's a single project other than my own small scripts I use that would pass my own purity tests.
Feels like a good psyop from anyone if you want to damage Lemmy and Foss competition in my meaning.
Not being transphobic isn't a purity test
So you wrote this comment on a device completely void of any involvement of any transphobes? How do you check that? Or is it just though scrutiny for services you get free?
Can you explain what you mean?
Even if criticism can be made, I mean it's kinda sus to attack the development of Lemmy. I can find a bunch of really bad people you have paid money to. Maybe stop giving them money instead? but here we are getting nothing done. To quote:
So you want people to suck it up and donate?
I would like people to pay for the labour they enjoy the fruits of yes. Or contribute some other way.
For me it is obvious that Lemmy is on the top of my list of project to donate to.
Or is it just for Foss projects that’s provided for free you have the purity tests for?
I have "purity tests" of:
So far it works pretty well. I don't see a reason to be friends with or use products made by such people.
linux is also problematic here and there. Wikipedia I just donated to also. Hell I don’t think there’s a single project other than my own small scripts I use that would pass my own purity tests.
What has Linux had issues with, along with Wikipedia? I can't think of anything where major Linux devs have advocated for harming groups. If anything, torvalds hates those kinds of people.
Feels like a good psyop from anyone if you want to damage Lemmy and Foss competition in my meaning.
The psyop of "I don't wanna give money to people who harm my friends"? Sure dude.
have "purity tests" of:
No you don't. Or at least your fine with the fails. otherwise you wouldn't be able to comment here. Or do you believe there are no really shitty person's in tech?
What has Linux had issues with, along with Wikipedia? I can't think of anything where major Linux devs have advocated for harming groups. If anything, torvalds hates those kinds of people
Lol if you haven't seen the issues with toxic tech communities online you must have kept your eyes closed very hard.
By your own standards not "harming people" is quite far from the I want shit for free but won't pay because o don't like a dude developing the free stuff I use.
The psyop of "I don't wanna give money to people who harm my friends"? Sure dude.
Well you do. Or are you living in a hut in the forest sending smoke signals to get your comment here?
Maybe don't let perfect get in the way of good?
bourgoisie is based B)
why are all your comments downvoted?
seems like all the comments are gone!
perhaps people misconstrued it as bourgeoisie being based for transphobia, not the trans itself?
wat? no, i mean all of your comments don't have upvotes
I went and read the context behind this one. Posting just this comment alone is abit disingenuous. I didnt see any phobias there except maybe the fear of the ruling class in society.... Seems that dude was just talking frankly and making observations about what appears to be a contradiction in the original posters logic
full poat: https://lemmy.world/comment/11541457
That context doesn't actually change the reading of the message as far as I can see.
I'm not sure why the original poster brought economic politics into it, but the best possible reading of "where are these 'transphobes' and why do they need 'rooting out'" is only neutral, and none of it offsets the weird Olympic sports thing.
So ... Yay for context, but nothing disingenuous about this post as far as I can see.
