Submitted by Fossidarity in meta (edited )

I want to apologize for posting a homophobic meme yesterday. I was tired and found the meme yesterday and apparently the text didn't fully register in my head. After posting the meme I went straight to bed so I found out what I did this morning. I deleted the post now, next time I'll pay more attention to what I'm actually posting. I would never consciously post anything homophobic as I self-identify as queer.

I don't even know why I posted the meme because besides the homophobic content it's really bad quality and not funny at all.

I feel really guilty about this, especially since I've recently been given the trust to become an admin. If people feel this mistake is a big one enough to step down as admin then I'll do that.

Homophobia in any way or form shouldn't be accepted, and it would have been fair if I would have been banned for it.

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____deleted____ wrote

it would have been fair if I would have been banned for it.

No, it wouldn't have. That would be an overreaction to one mistaken post. We need to clear this atmosphere that things will have such immediate and strong reactions.

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F3nd0 wrote

Curious question: In what way is the meme homophobic?

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Pop wrote

in short, its framing locates cocksucking and cum drinking (by men in particular) as a bad thing

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F3nd0 wrote

I see! I would see the negativity as coming from the people involved (Trump and police), and the acts themselves as simply conveying submission. I guess I can see how others have interpreted it now though; thanks!

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F3nd0 wrote (edited )

I'm a bit unsure about the meaning of that. Are you saying I couldn't be woke, or is the meme? And how does it relate to homophobia?

EDIT: I see where you're coming from now; thanks!

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Pop wrote

nobody here thinks that blowing trump would be cool or empowering...

with a name like selver you must have read the dispossessed

do you remember how in that world sexual-related swearing/insults etc just didn't exist?

it's the superstructure of homophobia that makes that insult as 'effective' as it is

if you rewrote the same thing to replace the homosexual stuff, the stuff you would be replacing it with to make an effective translation would imply submissiveness and lackeyness and weakness and otherness/grossness

and so those are the implicit features of that sex in this meme's presentation, or no?

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