Everyone see the problem now?
For those who don’t get the point, one of the top posts on all of Lemmy at the moment is doing this same thing. Mocking a (shitty) man by saying he “looks trans” now. That’s not ok.
Since it’s one of the most upvoted things on Lemmy at the moment it seems like an awful lot of people here don’t understand that that isn’t alright, so I’m trying to highlight it for them.
How about this one? lol she does look super fucked up. Maybe it’s ok to say that makes her look trans?
No? Because that’s discriminatory and demeaning to an entire group of people? Maybe we shouldn’t celebrate doing that then.
Sort of looks bad for that to be one of the most popular posts of the entire day on all of Lemmy. Right?
Confused on what people down voting mean.
Are you trying to say we should post mocking this woman by saying she looks trans? Cause I’m highlighting how fucked up that would be.
Use your words. You can do it!
You might be a little intense and over the top… Leveraging the next best popular opinion for stroking whatever personality trait causes this begging for attention…
You seem well practiced at trying to insult others in a way that would fly under the radar. Another one to block.
No I don’t think these ones “look trans” on the right. I think what you’re trying to say is that the original meme is problematic. But the OG meme already admitted that. It’s fairly standard for comedians to make “problematic” jokes. And it’s up to the audience to judge if the laughs are worth it. In this case, based on the upvotes on the OG meme, and the downvotes on your post, it seems like you’re in the minority.
So you think you can tell trans people by their looks, and that “looks trans” is a thing. Can you spot gay people as well? That’s an amazing skill that isn’t based on reality but pure presumptive discrimination.
I don’t care what you think up votes say, they seem to say the bulk of you are shitty people.
Looking trans is when biological features show through your presenting gender. It is very possible to notice.
I actually put “look trans” in quotes because that’s what you were telling people to do, and I was saying no, I don’t see it.
In fact the OG meme is evidence that you can’t actually tell when people look trans, because obviously that guy isn’t actually trans.
Disagreement is normal. Calling people shitty just for disagreeing with you, seems a bit unhealthy though.
Edit: for any other readers, the OG meme that I believe OP is referencing is this one
You put “looks trans” in quotes but literally said you don’t think the after pictures here look trans. So clearly you do think that “looking trans” is a thing.
Well I don’t think they “look trans” because honestly I don’t really know what that would look like
So a meme mocking a guy’s looks by saying that he “looks trans” is… insulting to trans people because it’s saying there is such a thing as “looking trans”… and also more insulting to them because it’s before and after images in which the person looks goofier after, so it is considering “looking trans” to be synonymous with looking goofy.
Make sense now?
You are very good at intentionally ignoring the points people make. Have you been practicing?
As mentioned earlier, the OG meme already acknowledged that it could be problematic. As jokes often are. Whether or not something could be a problem, and whether or not it actually becomes a problem, are two separate things.
So yes, it could be a problem. But it also could be insignificant. It’s up to the audience to judge.
Edit: a word
Edit: ok wait I misremembered. I thought the OG meme acknowledged it, but it did not. I was thinking about some of the comments on the meme, which both acknowledge the problematic nature and say that it’s funny nonetheless