Meta is accused of halting a study showing Facebook's negative mental health effects, as it faces a potential £1.05 trillion penalty from four US states over addictiveness claims.
and there have been replacements. WhatsApp, Twitter, BlueSky, even Mastodon should probably die. And that waste of goddamn space Pinterest, whose only purpose is to hold someone else’s image in a lower resolution and sometimes have any information or source. It’s just a dead end for research.
My mother-in-law at least used to use Pinterest for pulling together ideas for decorations, arts, and crafts. It seems to help her find inspiration. I figure if it is making a difference in how someone is living their life, it had at least as much merit as the bullshit that pervades most of the Internet.
True, for anyone like me who sees it as a detriment there are folk like your MIL whose life was improved by it, and I’m glad she finds it useful. And if/when it does shut down and she’s still into crafts I hope she finds a decentralised alternative that won’t succumb to the whim of shareholders.
Maybe I’m too autistic but I just never could understand pinterest. I think it has something to do with like the same thing that femmes(edit: I meant this comment to include trans women but apparently it’s not coming off this way. But I don’t really know what word to use because honestly not all women have this tendency which Im talking about) do where they devote do much time and energy into their appearance and judging others appearances. It don’t make no sense to me, kind of like the difference between doing something nice for someone so that you can get something and doing something nice for no reward. What good is either?
No need to lynch them :/ – the queer community, being more empathic in general, use ‘femme’ to refer to anyone with stereotypically feminine traits, and this detaches the social stigma that all women must do x and all men mustn’t do x. But with your comment you just implied that all femmes are women, which isn’t true – SJW out of the way the real problem is what the commenter was referring to: the overwhelming and ridiculous pressure on the vast majority of females, whether they end up becoming women or not, from a very young age to conform to a certain image for others to enjoy. The porcelain look of Geishas is one such example, as are the facial prosthetics a lot of women in Korea and China utilise.
I’d argue you were correct - it seems more accurate to me to say that ‘femmes are pressured to worry about their image’ than ‘women…’ as many women unlearn the lesson that they must portray a certain version of themselves, whereas femmes generally conform to it willingly, hence why they’re ‘femme’. Therefore, the women that are excluded by the term ‘femme’ are the same women that don’t fit the criteria of using Pinterest for their self image…
But this nuance with woman/female/femme is one of the more complex aspects of modern conversation. Last decade it was there/their/they’re. FTR: Am transwoman, am femme, felt included :)
Facebook and instagram shutting down might be the greatest thing to happen to society in the last 20 years
Yes,
and there have been replacements. WhatsApp, Twitter, BlueSky, even Mastodon should probably die. And that waste of goddamn space Pinterest, whose only purpose is to hold someone else’s image in a lower resolution and sometimes have any information or source. It’s just a dead end for research.
My mother-in-law at least used to use Pinterest for pulling together ideas for decorations, arts, and crafts. It seems to help her find inspiration. I figure if it is making a difference in how someone is living their life, it had at least as much merit as the bullshit that pervades most of the Internet.
True, for anyone like me who sees it as a detriment there are folk like your MIL whose life was improved by it, and I’m glad she finds it useful. And if/when it does shut down and she’s still into crafts I hope she finds a decentralised alternative that won’t succumb to the whim of shareholders.
Maybe I’m too autistic but I just never could understand pinterest. I think it has something to do with like the same thing that femmes(edit: I meant this comment to include trans women but apparently it’s not coming off this way. But I don’t really know what word to use because honestly not all women have this tendency which Im talking about) do where they devote do much time and energy into their appearance and judging others appearances. It don’t make no sense to me, kind of like the difference between doing something nice for someone so that you can get something and doing something nice for no reward. What good is either?
Go back to 4chan.
Calling women femmes is about the most cringe inducing way to admit you’re a misogynist there is.
No need to lynch them :/ – the queer community, being more empathic in general, use ‘femme’ to refer to anyone with stereotypically feminine traits, and this detaches the social stigma that all women must do x and all men mustn’t do x. But with your comment you just implied that all femmes are women, which isn’t true – SJW out of the way the real problem is what the commenter was referring to: the overwhelming and ridiculous pressure on the vast majority of females, whether they end up becoming women or not, from a very young age to conform to a certain image for others to enjoy. The porcelain look of Geishas is one such example, as are the facial prosthetics a lot of women in Korea and China utilise.
Oh sorry, I was trying to be inclusive of trans women
I’d argue you were correct - it seems more accurate to me to say that ‘femmes are pressured to worry about their image’ than ‘women…’ as many women unlearn the lesson that they must portray a certain version of themselves, whereas femmes generally conform to it willingly, hence why they’re ‘femme’. Therefore, the women that are excluded by the term ‘femme’ are the same women that don’t fit the criteria of using Pinterest for their self image…
But this nuance with woman/female/femme is one of the more complex aspects of modern conversation. Last decade it was there/their/they’re. FTR: Am transwoman, am femme, felt included :)
trans women are included in the category of women
femmes would actually exclude some women
Oh, I’ll edit
that was obama