The Olive Garden waiter never heard the cue to stop so I suffocate on the fine powdery goodness

I just joined a little while ago, there are blocklists here?

Also if you dont mind me asking, can you switch instances without creating a new account?

fuck nazism and especially fuck corporations like alphabet inc that force content creators to censor words like Hitler and holocaust because they’re not “advertiser friendly” enough

Already got permabanned for saying he was justified, I like it better here anyway

I love them. Being able to check my calendar events, email and grocery list at a glance is invaluable to me because if they weren’t right there on my homescreen I’d completely forget about them

Reading the responses of the women in the comic you seriously think this situation isnt a metaphor for sexual assault?

In your other thread of replies to me you’re stating that it is but we’re supposed to disagree with them. I’m not sure why you feel the need to defend her so strongly that you’re simultaneously making 2 conflicting arguments and completely ignoring the other behavior I mentioned but I’m not really interested in continuing this discussion with you because I’ve presented the facts and it’s clear you’re personally unwilling to consider that this comic was made in bad faith

I don’t want to spam the comments section by copy and pasting the same message twice, but someone else made a similar point so I’ll link my response

https://lemmy.world/comment/15436914

Yes, the comic is satire. The satire is “men getting treated the way female r*pe victims get treated”. Implying that male sexual assault doesn’t happen or that when it does, people actually believe them, when in reality men who are victims of this often just don’t speak up at all because when they are, they’re either not believed, called “gay” for not enjoying it, or it ends up reported with a headline like “female teacher has sex with male student”.

The fact she posted this comic on men’s mental health awareness day and proceeded to engage in arguments with male victims of SA in the comments - who were then banned without a chance to appeal - as well as her past of seeking out her critics to argue with even in other subreddits heavily indicates that this was inflammatory on purpose.

…did you respond to the wrong person or are you just making shit up to be mad at because you don’t have an argument?

Receipts have been posted above. Respectfully, I hope more people realize that when someone tries to paint every single one of their critics as being a misogynistic incel, that its a manipulation tactic. (Even though, yes, reddit is full of those too)

I find it really distasteful that she makes comics “in support” of trans people while denying those born as male can experience sexual assault. It’s just a different, more subtle/socially acceptable form of transphobia.

Here’s a r/SubredditDrama post that covers what was said before mods nuked the comments section

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1dqxmm0/frequent_rcomics_poster_pizzacake_creates_a_comic/

And another with more proof of mods nuking comments

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1e0refc/rcomics_mods_closed_comments_to_comic_about/

Don’t forget about the comic she made downplaying the seriousness of male r*pe on mens mental health awareness day, and the arguments she participated in under her own post with male victims of SA.

I’d argue it does more damage to directly contribute to triple A gaming companies by buying the crap they release than to abstain from paying for games altogether. People deserve to enjoy things without having to contribute to corporations to do so.

I know you’re probably referring mostly to indie developers though. The thing is that this feels like a moot point to argue because we have no real way of knowing how much piracy directly harms a game developer. Maybe an indie game would have performed better had someone not “cracked” it. Maybe it would have performed worse due to people who are unwilling to gamble by spending their money on a revokable game license not discovering & publicly praising it. In reality I think if it’s a good game with effort put into it, people are going to pay for it regardless - not everyone, but the vast majority of people who would be playing it, even if just because they don’t know how to pirate

Oh ok, thank you for the explanation. I also replaced it just to be safe

If it helps, people seem to be a lot more open to questions and discussion here than on sites like reddit. Its pretty refreshing.

With the AI stuff, they are not just copying the work, they are stealing small creators livelihoods as well as the efforts of their labour.

They’re also distributing the work and making profit off of it. This isn’t really comparable to someone pirating a game in the age where digital ownership is near dead and every other new game is $60 with game breaking glitches on release

From the way it’s written, she did it voluntarily expecting it to then end.

This doesn’t change the fact they cornered her in a women’s bathroom and made her feel like she needed to expose herself to them in order to stay safe. We have no way of knowing what they might have done to her if she hadn’t.

Can you explain what you mean to a less technologically inclined person?

When she finally exited the stall, she said she lifted her shirt to prove she was not a man, expecting the ordeal to end. Instead, she said one deputy continued to question her appearance, insisting she “looked like a man.”

The police are equally if not more deserving of blame for continually harassing this woman even after forcing her to expose herself to them.

People see others doing something that makes them uncomfortable and goes against what people have been telling them their whole lives (that there are 2 genders, traditional gender roles and all that) and then encounter people who not only validate that discomfort, but try to justify it. To weaponize it into anger.

I think that in a society that still teaches children there are 2 genders/sexes, raises men who refuse to express negative emotions other than anger for fear of being seen as feminine, and raises women who are insecure in their femininity because of beauty standards and social norms that are being reinforced on every form of media at every term, mass transphobia and the subsequent politicization of being trans was inevitable. If it wasn’t trans people being targeted it would be anyone deviating “too far” from gender norms. They will continue to move the goalposts and weaponize that discomfort thats been purposefully instilled in us from birth to turn us against each other.

Thank you for the support and empathy during a time where we’re all feeling like we’re going to wake up one day with no rights anymore