I saw similar case at work once when a religious guy tried to bs that pride event organised to celebrate queer employers was exclusionary towards christians. Nobody is excluding you. You're excluding yourself. You literally stand in a fruit alley and complain that there are other fruits than apples. - ThreadSky

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the-luck-witch.bsky.social • 3 days ago

I saw similar case at work once when a religious guy tried to bs that pride event organised to celebrate queer employers was exclusionary towards christians. Nobody is excluding you. You're excluding yourself. You literally stand in a fruit alley and complain that there are other fruits than apples.

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the-luck-witch.bsky.social•3 days ago

They literally want to either live in a world in which all shops sell only apples (this is my metaphor for straight people) or where they can just open settings and disable every other fruit from existence except apples because bananas specifically trigger their fragile sensibilities and victimhood.

the-luck-witch.bsky.social•3 days ago

It's always "let's add a button that removes queer stuff" but never "let's add a button that removes straight stuff". If I inverted their idea this way it would perfectly illustrate how flawed of an idea such censorship button is. Very on the nose but really gets the point across how bigoted it is.

the-luck-witch.bsky.social•3 days ago

Ghettoisation is never an answer. Creating niches that cater to specific groups of people? Sure why not? As long as they're not spreading hate or normalising violence against marginalised people it's ok to cater. But censoring access to those niche games or censoring content for certain users? Nope.

the-luck-witch.bsky.social•3 days ago

Tho I'd specifically draw a line at catering to "portraying women as sexy babes". That's harmful. Media often not only reflect but also re-inforce already existing biases, so this type of a thing only makes men even more disrespectful and hateful of women. They're not trophies or sex dolls to enjoy.

the-luck-witch.bsky.social•3 days ago

There is nothing wrong with having characters that are sexy / hot but what is wrong is portraying those characters as if that was their only quality and as if they existed only for consumption and straight cis male enjoyment. Sexy women characters need personalities and agency too. They're not meat.

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