Transphobia.
It’s just an echo of the homophobia decades earlier, and it’s going to bee seen as equally ridiculous at some point
I look forward to getting to a point where people just casually try it out for a bit to see if they like it.
I try to emphasize this point to people who are dispairing over the current political climate. Public opinion towards gay people also had a backlash when we demanded rights. Many countries have moved beyond that fairly quickly. I am still not dropping by Uganda anytime soon, but at least I feel fairly safe in my own country.
Transphobia is much less prevalent in the younger generations, just like homophobia. It will literally die out.
But…like…aren’t we still dealing with homophobia from the olds? It definitely died down and has morphed into mostly transphobia now, but it’s not like everyone is cool with it these days.
Sure, and it will be a factor for a long time. But it should be considered in comparison with similar historical processes. Think civil rights for Black people in the US. I’ll pluck a few dates:
- First slaver ship, 1619
- Abolitionist movement starting in 1688
- Dred Scott decision 1857
- American Civil War 1861-1865
- Jim Crow laws beginning in 1870’s
- Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
- Brown v. Board, 1954
- Montgomery bus boycott, 1955
- Voting Rights Act of 1965
- Crack epidemic and subsequent mass incarceration, 1980’s and 1990’s
- George Floyd murder, 2020
And after all that time, Black people are still disadvantaged as a whole relative to white people. Compare that to the modern LGBTQ movement. The modern movement really began in earnest with the Stonewall riots in 1969, but it has roots dating back to Berlin in 1897. Gallup has poll numbers going back to 1977 for various questions. Around 70% of Americans believe same sex marriage should be allowed. Attitudes towards equal job opportunities are nearly unanimous in favor, 95%. That said, it’s notable that most of these questions are about policy, so they may treat gay people poorly in their personal life. So whether you’re measuring by Stonewall or by Berlin in 1897, progress has been relatively rapid. Not that it’s ever rapid enough for people suffering under oppression, but progress runs on a generous dose of hope.
I think people in the future will look back on how we raise livestock today as barbaric.
I hope so
At least 1 of my 300 kids is going to eventually run into some insect smut I commissioned and recognize my username.
AI rights.
I’ll say something like “I don’t see why a fancy python script should be allowed to vote” and the youth will be like “that’s so fucked up in so many ways”. “My best friend is an AI why are you so prejudiced”.
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When I read the Lambda transcripts of that Google employee (priest?) who tried to whistleblow that that Google’s AI was sentient… I mean damn, I read those transcripts, it sounded real as hell.
Stochastic parrot or not, I think a significant part of my own consciousness goes towards predicting the next word in a given context.
IIRC, consciousness is really, really complicated. We might not be capable of knowing if we are LLMs in meatsuits. An LLM might be a highly vocal infant, and we simply wouldn’t have a great way of really making that judgement. Shit, we still can’t define consciousness in humans–or other animals–in any meaningful way.
Agreed. I think it’s a spectrum, and even a chair (an object that forms a feedback loop of forces with its surroundings that depends on its previous state) is conscious to a degree.
I don’t think there is a line
There will be a legal line at some point.
Worrying about online privacy. Kids will accept that online privacy simply does not exist. They’ll have the mindset that OF COURSE the government/corporations spy on us, and people who are concerned about it are quaint, clueless, and exasperating.
I’ve heard not being on social media is a growing trend with young kids because they want privacy. A lot of them have had their parents oversharing their entire lives and they don’t want to do it anymore. I’m old though so who knows how true this is.
It’s disturbing how common this mindset already is.
“The internet is and has been a net positive for the human race.”
Growing up r***** was a pretty common phrase, that’s definitely something some millenials have had problems removing from their vocabulary.
I also don’t think our social comprehension of gender has finished evolving yet. So everyone alive to read this comment will eventually have to revise their understanding and look back on their cringy previous views.
Just say retarded u friggin retard.
Just say fucking instead of friggin, you fucking spastic.
u
I see where you lost the high ground in the discussion.
I like how the punctuation failures totally change the assumed meaning of the sentence.
Ohhhhh I thought you meant the phrase was “growing up r*****”. Took me five minutes to figure out what you meant. It’s just the one word, not the whole phrase. 😆
For anyone else confused like me, it’s the pejorative word for a person with a mental disability.
Thanks for the explanation because I was confused too. Good example of why commas matter.
If only I had scrolled, you woulda saved me the same time. 🤣
I thought they meant “growing up r” as well. First my brain supplied me with “growing up rich”.
Retarded. He’s censoring the word retarded, for anyone also confused.
You can say retarded. Especially when literally referring to the word itself? No one is going to arrest you.
For the record the new offensive phrase is “sped”, because the euphemism treadmill doesn’t stop and focusing on words instead of subject matter is pointless.
You can say removed. Especially when literally referring to the word itself?
Not on lemmy.ml apparently…
Doesn’t show removed on my end, but wouldn’t surprise me.
I like the cut of your jib, Tex.
It’s a well cut jib, methinks
Are we censoring the word racist now? We can’t call it what it is?
The censoring works so well that I have no idea what you’re talking about.
Some people just aren’t brave like I am. The word they’re referring to is rigatonni
Rigatoni
You’ve just doomed us all
Ideas never finish evolving, and in a grand sense nothing finishes evolving, unless you consider extinction to be the conclusion of an evolution. Nature goes on, the universe continues, there is no end point where things have reached a perfect evolution.
Growing up r what ? I don’t understand
Promoted from your desire to censor yourself, kids won’t understand and be exasperated by my refusal to censor myself online so some website/content creator can more easily make ad money.
And no, fuck that noise, I will not bow the fucking algorithm. I will curse and speak freely.
Trying to reform society without critiquing capital?? Seriously Grandpa?
I’m one of the oldest millenials and critiquing capital is basically 60% of my personality
They just transplanted a genetically human kidney grown in a pig into a human being. Pretty sure we’re only a few decades from being able to do a lot more.
Remember that guy from ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy’? The one with two heads? That’ll be common soon enough.
Zaphod Beeblebrox
Can we also get a 3rd arm to help with our ski-boxing?
You can’t have any more arms until you finish your soylent green!
“I don’t care about privacy because I have nothing to hide.”
That one question from the Elder Scrolls class/Personality quiz was uncomfortably prescient:
Question 4: There is a lot of heated discussion at the local tavern over a group of people called ‘Telepaths’. They have been hired by certain City-State kings. Rumor has it these Telepaths read a person’s mind and tell their lord whether a follower is telling the truth or not.
Combat Response: This is a terrible practice. A person’s thoughts are his own and no one, not even a king, has the right to make such an invasion into another human’s mind.
Magic Response: Loyal followers to the king have nothing to fear from a Telepath. It is important to have a method of finding assassins and spies before it is too late.
Stealth Response: In these times, it is a necessary evil. Although you do not necessarily like the idea, a Telepath could have certain advantages during a time of war or in finding someone innocent of a crime.It looks like the kids these days are all mana-slingers lol
Which game was that ?
The quiz shows up in multiple games, I thiiiink this question started showing up in Morrowind though, iirc.
The Patriot Act of Tamriel
Not me or my kids specifically, but I think barriers between genders will break down enough that within my lifetime we might hear people wondering why we were all so cool with gender segregated bathrooms for so long. Separate but equal in the 21st century.
For me specifically, probably my thoughts on movies. I think barely any newer movies are very good. Obviously there were plenty of bad movies “back in my day” but it truly feels like the studio executives and producers fundamentally do not give a shit about art. I could do a Ted Talk rant about this, but you guys have shit to do today so I’ll keep it light. Indiana Jones. Compare the trilogy to the new entries. Objectively speaking, as stories and character studies, looking at effects and acting and score, analyzing cinematography and lighting, if you were to score each film 1-10, the first 3 are consistently 7+ movies (1 and 3 are 9+) while the nostalgia bait sequels would get 5s at best. They would rather milk existing IPs to prey upon our nostalgia to make a buck for killing the franchise’s legacy than take a risk with new IPs. That’s why we keep getting Star Wars, super heroes, board game adaptation, toy adaptation, video game adaptation, remake, reboot, and the occasional rushed book adaptation while the book is still hot. They are all about the bottom line, and so long as we keep paying to see shitty movies, they’ll keep making shitty movies as it is a beneficial investment strategy. Boycott bad movies. Just wait for reviews.
I broadly agree with you, but it feels like cinema is shifting back to quality again. We’re all tired of shitty superhero movies and many of the recent ones have bombed at the box office. Hell, one of the biggest movies of last year was mostly about men in suits talking about science and it was great. Dune pt. II is also an incredible breath of fresh air and shows that it’s still possible to make a massive blockbuster with mass appeal but also a strong sense of style and integrity. I really hope this trend continues because I want real cinema and not mere ‘content’.
Can’t even trust reviews.
I feel like bad movies nowadays are bad for simpler reasons. Trying to pin down why some movies from the 1980s worked or didn’t, for that audience or a modern audience, was complicated and remains complicated. Nailing down the failure points of modern crap is so straightforward that it naturally becomes comedy.
Maybe it’s a matter of proportion. There’s complex duds now, and there were blatantly atrocious movies then. But it’s like… people making movies grew up watching too many movies, and don’t recognize which parts are a choice. They know a thing is supposed to happen, but don’t recognize that it was clearly set up to appear obviously necessary, so they don’t do that setup. And then the “have I got a movie for you” guy gets to say “unclear.” The same cyclical regurgitation creates live-action adaptations of animated films, which neither build on nor live up to the originals, despite examples where stage musicals outclassed the celebrated hand-drawn films.
The good news is that AI is going to destroy all of this by eliminating Hollywood. I mean really - if any writer who can sketch their own animatics can extract a finished scene from their computer, what is a billion-dollar studio going to offer them besides marketing?
Hopefully, everything “identity” that has made its way into just about everything.
I’d like to think that future kids might be amused/annoyed by parents still insisting on calling out race, gender, sexual orientation, etc., as the most meaningful aspects of Who Someone Is…or even things they, “should be proud of.”
In what way? Like they would be done with republicans hating on everything not cis / white / het, because we already are tired of their identity politics war and im in my 30’s.
anti-natalism
It’s low-key ecofash.
Yeah, people in destructive developed nations voluntarily choosing to not have children in order to reduce future global suffering is totally fascist.
Real lebensborn stuff, right?
“To reduce global suffering” yes that’s the eco-fascism. Population control is the eugenics equivalent of austerity. You don’t get to tell anyone for any reason if they’re allowed to have children or not. That’s not your call, that’s not anyone else’s call but the parents’.
Not only is it deeply immoral, like all fascist pseudoscience, it also doesn’t work. Just ask China’s population control policy how that went.
The modern anti-natalist movement is about the personal choice to not have children, and occasionally being a counsel or advocate for others pondering their life choices. It has nothing to do with government, corporations, or national mythos.
The ecofascism that currently exists is manifest as jingoism against Chinese and Indian (out-group) climate change contributions, which does not take the form of anti-natalist language. It uses tribalist language, as fascism does. The reverse side of this ecofascism is domestic (in-group) anti-anti-natalism, such as Musk espouses. They demand the expendable laborers make more babies to weaken labor power, and decry childless individuals as degenerates.
My stance is unchanged. Anti-natalism is built on a foundation of population control, regardless of what it claims to be.
I’m not trying to deny that anti-natalism considers the material conditions of population numbers and resource constraints.
My only concern here is that you not reverse the meaning of fascism.
Fuck right off. Sorry your definition of fascism gets you and your friends off the hook. I deal in the real world where shit has consequences.
Hahahaha, kids.
“I always thought I never wanted kids, but then I took an arrow to the knee!”
I would assume a sperm to the crotch, but what do I know about humans’ reproductive strategies
