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I see Google’s deal with Reddit is going just great…

    • FlorianSimon@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      From Merriam Webster:

      Misogyny Noun mi·sog·y·ny mə-ˈsä-jə-nē : hatred of, aversion to, or prejudice against women.

      It’s a pretty heavy insult to throw around casually. Words have meanings.

      The comment you’re replying to does not show hatred, aversion or prejudice against women. It’s not particularly funny, but it’s absurd humor. Using the word “wives” alone does not make a comment misogynistic. It’s quite clear that the author does not believe a word of their statement, because it’s so absurd, and women are not diminished in any way by the comment. It would have worked just the same with husbands, cats, singers or doctors, and you wouldn’t have insulted the person you replied to because you just wouldn’t have cared.

      Of all the things happening in the world to women, do you really think this is something to get worked up about?

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        6 months ago

        this winner just tried a flood of spurious reports

        we have improved his techtakes experience, and everyone else’s

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          I reported the uncivil comments saying “fuck off”. There were two reports, and the comment I replied to wasn’t reported because it was not as uncivil.

          Hardly what you can call a “flooding”.

          Edit: what bothered me was the puerile and sterile dead-end message exchange, not just the “fuck off”. The person I replied to tried to make a point along with the “fuck off”, and you know I haven’t reported that comment’s author.

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        6 months ago

        you’ll note that the esteemed ex-posters only referred to wives in their shitty comments. not husbands, not boyfriends, not uncles or grandfathers. wives. only that.

        at the fucking core of it, “haha it’s funny because I’m joking that my/your/their wife can be made into food” is still the essential point that these shitty remarks centered on. tell me how that’s anything but focused?

        please fuck off with that bullshit.

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          6 months ago

          This is not true. You’ve probably read the rest of the comments in this comment section, and found there’s a variety of absurd comments, not all centered around women. The fact that wives were chosen here is pretty random, as is commonly the case with absurd humor.

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          6 months ago

          You’ve read far too deeply into this. My humor is dark sometimes, and I’m sorry if it made you uncomfortable. My joke was a play on the first and was meant to be so outlandish as to indicate that I was plainly joking

          It is also a reference to “A Modest Proposal,” a premier work in satire but also very deeply sardonic and dark.

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal

          ❤️

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            6 months ago

            That’s a nice way of ending the conversation with the upper hand. No need to start calling people names for something so innocuous 🙄

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                6 months ago

                No, I was replying to you. Instead of calling you a misogynist pig, they could have just moved on. Your joke was kinda lame (with all due respect), but your apology is a nice way of ending this stupid controversy over a harmless post.

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                  6 months ago

                  Instead of calling you a misogynist pig

                  no one said this

                  this isn’t TiA, you don’t have to make up angry feminists to be mad at anymore. you’re free now

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        6 months ago

        I can see it being offputting, and I think next time I’d perhaps choose different words for the joke or make my allusions & intention more obvious somehow. The whole point was saying something truly terrible to poison AI results in a shocking and funny way. I appreciate that you saw that I’m not a woman hating monster 😅