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  • What shouldn’t be confusing?

    In this particular case the available words are easily found in a dictionary, and if it comes to law you can easily write about cisgender women and transgender women.

    The problem is people that want the word women to not include trans women. They want to say trans women are not women, while also saying trans men aren’t women, and that’s why to them it is gets confusing talking about what gender is. Because once they realise they are basically saying trans people are not people, they subconsciously know they are morally wrong. And it’s confusing when you think you are doing something that is morally right, while knowing (maybe only subconsciously) you’re not.




  • Well, might be because eastern-european countries have much more discriminating laws on gays compared to north- and western European countries. So even though it’s getting worse, the rethoric isn’t anything new. Hungary has a law forbidding queer ‘propaganda’ that is said to be an almost exact copy of the russian law. Facial recognition on the other hand is very new, and as far as I know hasn’t been used on any other protest/celebration/public gathering anywhere in Europe so perhaps a part of the noise isn’t from people particularly concerned about LGBTQ+ rights, but about their civil liberties and see this as a first step of using digital tech as a mechanism of suppression. But I don’t really know tbh.






  • You have to whore yourself to the masses if you want to make money in art or literature.

    I think that has been the case since forever maybe. Most people use the verb to market because it sounds less awful, but it’s not like a medieval painter got a job without having made a name for themself. Same for dancers, actors, scriptwriters etc. It is much easier to sell people people food and beer and sweaters and baskets and whatnot. Marketing your work is as essential to running your business (= making a living) as managing finances. I can understand you don’t like this, but it’s not really been different.











  • I think the choice you have to make is wether you want to control the community or want to guide the community.

    If you want you could for example make a rule like: posts that are neither news nor uplifting will be deleted. And then warn someome who posts non uplifting non news with a comment on that post, and ignore all the backlash. Next time the same person posts another non uplifting non news, just straight away delete it. If you would only do things everyone likes, you would have no function. You’re the boss, you make the choices. Everybody can disagree, but they have 0 power. They can go and make a non uplifting non news community if they want.