Sophienomenal

I mean, ChromeOS is a Gentoo-derivative, so they are Linux powered laptops. Though yes, it does not function the same way as other Linux distros, so I see your point, I’m merely being pedantic. My point is mostly that simply being Linux doesn’t make it better. It’s the spyware installed and the lockdown that is a problem. And for school laptops? I do believe there should be boundaries set up. For instance, my 8 year old neice was caught watching porn on her personal laptop (she managed to find a workaround to the parental controls), and then she proceeded to sexually assault her 2 other siblings for weeks before she was discovered.

Boundaries make sense, it’s simply the way we enforce them that matters. It is not impossible to maintain privacy while still regulating the content children are able to access (and don’t even get me started on people preventing their kids from learning about LGBTQ+ topics with parental controls), but the biggest issue is that people allow their children to have unsupervised access to devices. It’s my belief that parents should limit exposure to screen time, and enforce healthy boundaries. Parents should actually parent their children instead of letting them sit in front if a screen all day. As for school laptops, it’s my belief that they should be properly locked down without being a privacy nightmare. No data about the student’s activity should leave the device; all blocking should be done locally.

But of course, this is the product of late-stage capitalism and a surveillance state. I don’t see reform happening anytime soon.

Only 567, surprisingly

Only when they want to claim credit for our work, of course. You did 90% of the work? Great, but it isn’t your name getting plastered all over it; it’s your “manager” or “team leader” (or someone higher up) regardless of how little they contributed. Somewhere down the line, a man gets to take credit for our accomplishments.

Agreed, “would…if passed” is definitely better here.

Worth it to note: many sources inaccurately cite “62 million men” taking part in it, but that’s not what CNN found or claimed. That number is the total amount of visitors to the Motherless website in February. CNN found on the scale of “over a thousand” men in the group chat they joined, and found ~20,000 videos of it on Motherless with some reaching over 50,000 views. Still horrible, and I doubt that’s the only group, but it isn’t 62 million at least.

No. What we need to do is punish oversexualization. It is not okay. Fetishization of a group of people is never okay. While I’m not a furry, I am trans, which means I know damn well how horrible it is to be constantly sexualized (also part of just existing as a woman) and fetishized.

Let me put this into perspective for you in a way I hope you understand. Can we both agree on the fact that women do not deserve to be treated as mere sexual objects by men, but often are? Your argument then follows that men’s sexualization of women for just existing should be solved by having more women who are harder to sexualize (i.e. the whole “she was asking for it by what she was wearing” shit). That is not the solution. I should be able to dress how I want to feel confident and beautiful without having to worry about some man taking that as an excuse to touch me, or worse. Furries deserve to be able to live their lives without being hypersexualized, too. The same problem fuels both: men who refuse to take responsibility and would rather blame the victim than admit fault of their own.

It’s not a cultural context, this is not a culture that we’re talking about (“this” being a misguided sexualization of furry art). This is the product oversexualization and objectification created by porn consumption and sweeping generalizations. This is merely exaggerated by the fact that most people don’t understand furries beyond a vague idea that it’s sexual, but there are plenty of parts of furry life that are entirely non-sexual. It’s a harmful generalization that objectifies furries as sexual objects, and fails to recognize that there are things other than sex on their mind in their culture (culture applies here because it is a shared group of people with similar and related ideology and interests that routinely interact with one another in community, not a disjointed, unorganized group of people that share the same misunderstanding of a group).

You know what has a lot of porn of it? Video games. Are you gonna interpret every piece of video game fanart as sexual? Obviously that would be ridiculous. Yet it’s no different than what we see here.

Bigotry is not culture.

There is no reason to sexualize this image, it’s just a cute drawing of a cat in anthropomorphized form. I don’t see the point in drawing a conclusion that it’s related to what you’ve said.

I cannot get the image of someone trying to make out with an emu and then getting their tongue bitten off out of my head lol

It’s the Bass Pro Shop logo colors

Just by saying the letters, as it’s an acronym for “be right back”

I haven’t rewatched in awhile, is he actually transphobic?

I mean, it’s AI generated, so it isn’t going to make sense lol

HRT does not alter bone structure (in those who have fully developed bones). What it will do, however, is alter fat distribution in the body and face, giving a more feminine appearance. Also worth mentioning that it can affect pelvic tilt, which may appear like a bone structure change, but it’s not.

There really is so much hate in the world right now, but despite it all, I have so much love to give. Now I just need to find the right people to give it to 😮‍💨

I’m confused, was your comment meant to be sarcastic? It didn’t read that way to me at all. If not, then I don’t get the “Captain Obvious” reply, as I simply answered the implied question that was the foundation of your comment (“Why is it named ‘PlayNixOS’ if it isn’t based on Nix/NixOS?”). Your comment did not indicate to me that this was knowledge you already had, so I don’t see a point in calling me out on it. There are plenty of people using a Linux-based operating system that don’t know the history of it, so I can’t simply assume every commenter has that knowledge.

“Nix” in this context likely comes from Unix, the operating system that GNU/Linux sought to replace. Unix still has cultural significance within the Linux community, so I think it’s a much more likely explanation than naming it after Nix/NixOS.

You should really read the rules of this community before posting. This is a space for women and woman-aligned nonbinary folks. It is not a space for men or their shitty hot takes.

And no, I’m not assuming. I made sure I checked beforehand as to not misgender you

That’s a whole new meaning to getting railed. I’ll see myself out.