• StarlightDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1 hour ago

        I remember when calling someone a Karen was a word with a meaning, specifically calling out bigoted white women - those who would punch down. This is the opposite; someone calling out bigotry.

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        28 minutes ago

        Assuming good faith question: The (false) dichotomy of top/bottom implies a power dynamic in which the bottom is subservient to the top. In reality, it’s often a simple preference and bottoms can domineer just as well as tops. Some prefer it that way. And there’s more than top and bottom. Versatile is the obvious third option (no or changing preference for position) as well as side (prefers non-penetrative sex).

        There’s this stereotype (may not be the right word) that extends from the above in that tops are more masculine or powerful by virtue of topping, due to the tie with being dominant. Thus bottoms are more feminine and subservient. All of that is false and represents the gay community in a pretty bad, oversimplified, sexist-somewhere-along-the-line way.

        The dom/sub axis is not the same as the top/bottom axis (not really an axis).

        • Trying2KnowMyself@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          15 minutes ago

          It’s not just the top/bottom part that’s problematic, it’s the entire post. The punchline is “Trump and Elon are gay for each other, isn’t that funny?” which centers the idea that it would be bad or wrong for them to be gay for each other, perpetuating the conservative stereotype that there’s something wrong with being gay.

      • noodlejetski@lemm.ee
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        1 hour ago

        you really can’t see how using sexuality to mock someone you hate is homophobic?

        • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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          59 minutes ago

          … you could just explain your logic you know.

          It isn’t the general consensus.

        • Trying2KnowMyself@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          2 hours ago

          calls out a post for being homophobia topped with an extra serving of homophobia

          less upvotes than someone who thinks “haha gay” isn’t homophobic

          😒

          Thanks for trying.

    • enbyecho@lemmy.world
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      42 minutes ago

      This is just homophobia, by the way

      Tell us you are not a gay man without telling us you are not a gay man.