Comment on Twitch allowing more nudity after disproportionately banning female streamers | Twitch confirmed its policy banning nudity was sexist.

• OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wait a minute could our society be sexist?

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  • WhiteHawk@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe, maybe not, that really makes no difference here

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• Signtist@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, but that difference is specifically rooted in sexism and misogyny. The very fact that we can all see the difference that isn’t much of a difference shows that there’s a divide that needs to be bridged. We only think women’s nipples are inappropriate because we were taught to. Plenty of cultures around the world don’t see breasts as inappropriate, and they’re doing just fine.

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  • tory@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, but you’re not going to stop people from getting horny when looking at breasts no matter how much you educate them. So idk what your goal is.

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    • Signtist@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, it’s not. People at nude beaches or at nudist colonies aren’t walking around with erections all day. African communities where women don’t wear tops don’t have guys jerking off whenever they get a chance. The sexualization of breasts in our culture is a product of our association with breasts as a purely sexual object, and the viewing of them as a purely sexual act. The way that stops being a thing is by allowing them to exist in non-sexual contexts, and teaching a new generation that they are just like any other body part.

      If a girl nonchalantly takes off her top while going about her day today, it will be viewed as a sexual thing, because anyone who sees will have only seen such an act in sexual contexts. If, for several years, women all around the US are empowered to nonchalantly take off their tops whenever feel like it, it will become a common, non-sexualized act, because it will be associated more with everyday life than with what people do behind closed doors.

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      • ___@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        A horny teenage boy is a prime target for abuse. You may think it’s cultural, but you may also be wrong. Hormones are a helluva drug.

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      • tory@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Just out of curiosity, total non sequitur here:

        Do you believe homosexuality is a choice?

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• Chriswild@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That doesn’t mean society isn’t sexist. There’s lots of bullshit society is sexist about like how men can’t be loving and affectionate parents.

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  • Gljvf@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or how you can mutilate male sexual organs for profit but can’t do so to female sexual organs

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• sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Society also says a kilt and a plaid skirt are two different things. Yet my Scottish roommate wore a plaid skirt from Zara to a party and no one batted an eye.

  Free the balls, man.

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