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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • As long as you understand that your own opinion does not dictate how language ends up being used by others. Some NB people call themselves trans, others don’t. I hope you won’t go around implying that people who identify as both trans and non-binary are wrong identifying as such. That’s arguably gatekeeping, and could make some people very uncomfortable.



  • I subscribe to the idea that art is up to the viewer to interpret how they want. “Death of the author” I think it’s called. If someone looks at Felix, and sees an egg in him that has yet to crack, then that’s a valid interpretation of the art, to that person. Just as if someone were to look at a character and interpret them as trans, whether they are canonically cis or it’s left open (Spider Gwen comes to mind). I experienced a sad ending to a story? Well, too bad, author, my headcanon’s now that everything works out after all!

    There may be problematic ways of doing that, and it’s in no way okay to assert one’s interpretation as the only truth. But fundamentally, that’s part of the freedom you get with art.

    Would Bridget have become canonically trans if that freedom was taken away from people? (And heck, does it include the author?) Would Xenia have been reborn as a popular now-trans Linux mascot?

    So there’s gotta be wiggle room in both situations. Fictional characters breaking the Prime Egg Directive, because of artists’ freedom of expression; and real people seeing fictional characters differently from the author and others, because of freedom of interpretation.


  • For a more concrete example, this post: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/22944727

    I found this comic really heckin’ funny. Then I checked the comments. “Egg Prime Directive” Was I… supposed to be in agreement that the comic is problematic? I can’t really, no matter how I tried to twist it in my head. (Props to the mod for leaving the post up even though they criticized it though.)

    Of course, nobody should do this to a real person, but this is a representation of something the artist has felt. We see comics of characters being ridiculous, or doing the impossible, and stories that involve violence or all manner of bad things. You wouldn’t take this to mean that you can or should do that in real life, right?

    People can rightfully inform others to tell them not to behave like that themselves. But I worry that if they’re too blunt (figuratively) shouting “Prime Egg Directive!”, there will be people that feel discouraged about expressing themselves artistically like this, or making light of their own past in certain ways. And again, I’ve legit felt anxious myself at times when this came up before, and even now when I’m trying to talk about it.



  • copygirl@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoThiccMoe@ani.socialLuka (by Milcho)
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    This smells of AI. I can’t quite find the usual artifacts I expect (though I’m not that experienced), but the positioning of the legs and arms don’t make sense to me. edit: Which is weird because this seems to be an artist who has been at it for longer than AI art existed. Is this just a blunder?


  • Flat earth also started out as satire.

    It’s innocent fun until it isn’t anymore.

    I’m unsure about how I’d personally act on this? Donald really was a joke (until he wasn’t). Flat earth “conspiracy” was funny (until people took it seriously). Nazis, …?! Kinda not funny? Maybe if it’s just “shit nazis say” type stuff? Admittedly I’ve not looked at the community in question yet, not in the mood for it. So my input is just based on vibes. I originally just wanted to add the flat earth part.


  • edit: Sorry, it seems like I completely misread your message. Yeah that’s pretty damning if true.

    Original message below.

    When I was looking into it, and if I recall correctly, one of such occasions involved telling someone to, if they were going to throw their life away, they might as do something meaningful in their death. Not entirely sure what it was. Still big yikes, but that changed context reads slightly differently. And I could see how someone neurodivergent could say that not having ill intent. This was also something that drag apologized for. (And everyone makes mistakes and learns.)

    The other occasions / accusation I don’t know anything about. But I would employ people to not just believe everything they see said about people, and for others to be ready to back up their claim with sources, such that we don’t have to live in uncertainty about what someone has or hasn’t done. And usually, if someone hasn’t been banned, then I trust moderation when they come to the conclusion that a ban wasn’t warranted.



  • Is that enough proof? Claiming that simply using someone’s pronouns is playing into their sexual fantasies and they somehow get a kick out of that is, in my opinion, pretty far fetched. It’s also entirely possible “drag” is chosen simply because it’s a shortened version of “dragonrider” or “dragonfucker”, rather than drag being a “sex pest” and “predator”. I feel like a community full of diverse folk and minorities will have the experience needed to identify such a person when they become a problem and remove them. Drag is not that.

    I also feel like it’s not far away from a transphobe claiming they “don’t consent” to respecting trans people because “they don’t want men in woman’s spaces” and “it’s just a kink”.