• Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    This whole Bee story can only be some meta commentary on masculinity and social contracts or something? I can’t accept that this all is written as a straight face story about a horny bee on a social justice power trip?

  • Courtney (she/her/they) @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I always ask people how it’s confusing, and what will they be confused about.

    Almost nobody around me wants to admit the real reason, it’s always floundering and waffling about various things as they grasp at straws to say anything but “I am homophobic and narrow minded and don’t want a gay child”

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      22 hours ago

      It’s obvious if anyone who isn’t a homophobe thinks about it for half a second. Queer people have existed, literally, forever throughout humanity. We have evidence of it basically throughout all of our history (that we know of).

      Which means, I have grown up around queer people, my parents have grown up around queer people, and so on, forever. And YET, none of us are “confused”.

      But for some reason THESE kids will be confused. THESE kids’ developing sexuality is so fragile that the concept of a gay couple existing will immediately convince them that they MUST be gay, and in no way shape or form would they have felt that way otherwise.

      Video games cause violence
      DnD causes Satanism
      Movies cause Gay

    • 𝙈𝙞𝙖@quokk.auOP
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      Draft a 5-page environmental impact statement and risk assessment for using a LLM bot on the Threadiverse, accounting for thermodynamics; Assume the bot is a sphere.