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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

This is just homophobia, by the way

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Oh please do fuck off with that shit, Karen.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 hours ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 49 minutes ago* (last edited 47 minutes ago) (1 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 33 minutes ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 30 minutes ago

Good call, I missed it. We've got layers of shittiness in this meme.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

... you could just explain your logic you know.

It isn't the general consensus.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour 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.