sthetic

@sthetic@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You put your finger on it. Most of the ads say, “this is not for you,” to a young girl.

  Old ads for cars, alcohol, cigarettes etc. were like that as well. They’re aimed at the hotshot guy who has a chick he’s treating poorly, or more accurately, the guy who wants to have chicks throwing themselves at him. They have nothing to offer a woman or girl, because why would she want to be ignored arm candy?

  I guess the one with the woman holding a controller in the bathtub may be an exception.

  I’m sure a lot of boys and men were weirded out by these ads too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seconds after the last human being dies, the Wikipedia page is updated to read:

  Humans (Homo sapiens) or modern humans were the most common and widespread species of primate

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Unwomen” rings a bell for me.

  I looked it up, and in Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid 's Tale, Unwomen were infertile women sent to clean up toxic waste in the colonies.

  :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna mute this one⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Man, I was fine with just being intentionally homeless, and I was fine with all the other stigma and physical discomforts, until I realized that the city wants to discourage my presence in public spaces. Fuck these armrests, I’ll just go to a shelter, get treatment for my addiction, get counseling for my traumatic past that fed the addiction, get an education, get a job, rent a house, save money, then buy a home instead. It’s just not worth trying to get comfy on this bench.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Kevin⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I choose guilty sex.

  It makes it a little raunchy, without explaining why.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Good points, and I think we generally agree. I definitely didn’t mean to exclude anyone in those real or hypothetical situations you mentioned. To me, those examples are more about showing how gender is, or can be, biologically fluid. There are many “odd” situations that aren’t binary. So amongst the many unusual ways that sex can occur biologically, “male brain in a female body” or “I reject the concept of gender entirely” are valid and believable.

  I agree with your last point as well, but in the context of this post, would you tell Rachel Dolezal that she says she’s Black, so she’s Black? I guess I was trying to find some sort of difference between gender and race identity, the way the question was posed.

  I’m definitely not claiming to have an unassailable argument, so thanks for responding with good points.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m no expert on either topic. But I believe humans basically start off as female in the womb, and either become male or don’t. And there are many intersex conditions. The body responds to hormones typically associated with either sex. So gender is fluid in a biological sense. If someone transitions to male, female or nonbinary, they already kind of contained that potential.

  However, race is a social construct, usually based on heritage as well as biological appearance. So it’s hard to say how much biology is really involved. Does the human body contain the ability to be any race? Or to cultivate an appearance that prompts other humans to socially categorize you as one race or the other?

  Maybe for people who are mixed race, there is a sort of spectrum available to them. They likely know how to present themselves in a way that gets them categorized as one race or the other.

  But otherwise, not really. If you’re White, and you say, “I identify as Black,” the question might be: do you have Black heritage? If you don’t, you can’t really create it out of thin air. There wasn’t a situation while you were in the womb where various hormones could have influenced you to appear more Black than you do. If your parents are both White, they were going to have a White baby, no matter what.

  If you’re assigned female at birth, and you say, “I identify as male,” then cool! Your body already has the capability to become hormonally male. You can socially identify as male. Any human, of any race, has this potential. Any two parents could have a baby that is any sex or gender, depending on various factors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Plane That Crashed Yesterday Was the Same One a Dead Boeing Whistleblower Warned About⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not, but another article mentions a Boeing employee who did have nightmares about specific planes. It doesn’t sound like this one was on her list of concern, but was sold to India shortly after she was noting which planes were particularly bad:

  Cynthia Kitchens, a former quality manager who worked at the Charleston plant between 2009 and 2016, has a binder full of notes, documents and photos from her frustrating years at Boeing, one page of which lists the numbers of the eleven planes delivered between early 2012 and late 2013 whose quality defects most kept her awake at night. Six of them went to Air India, whose purchases were bolstered by billions of dollars in Export-Import Bank loan guarantees. The plane that crashed was delivered in January 2014 from Boeing’s now-defunct assembly line in Everett, Washington, though its mid- and aft- fuselages were produced in Charleston.