Lilith

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[kiefbowl]

many people clearly believe that for the benefit of the community, women must simply absorb male violence. that it's their role in the community. that men are the community, and his violence needs to go somewhere acceptable. and the acceptable place is at her.

[crafty-butch]

anyone else notice how when "digital assistants" were just supposed to do specific tasks when you asked for them we had Alexa and Siri and Cortana, but now that they're being marketed as smart enough to take actions and make decisions on their own they've got names like Claude and Devin

[meangirlnurse]

if the satanic panic was happening now a lot of you guys would be like “DNI if you don’t believe survivors of satanic ritual abuse at daycare”

[meangirlnurse]

have already been accused of being a fascist for making this post

[tragicallyphosphorescent]

I dare you to explain what "satanic panic" is supposed to symbolize here. Did you refrain from saying "red scare" or especially "war of drugs" cause you knew if you said that people would stop for a minute and consider before rebloging this nonsense post mindlessly? Or is this about survivor of violence or rape? Or just what tf is this about?

[meangirlnurse]

have you considered googling “satanic panic.” sometimes if you look up words you don’t know you can find out what they mean

[sexhaver]

war of drugs

[chai-spiciest]

Lol. Lmao even

[anoraktrend]

Hey, OP, I genuinely do want to know what you're using the satanic panic as a metaphor for. Specifically because I do think that it's vague enough that it can refer to anything from people who say "DNI proship" or "DNI antiship" to "DNI trans rights activists" (a transphobic dog whistle) or "DNI Transphobes"

[meangirlnurse]

it’s not a fucking metaphor

[elequosoraptor]

Ok, metaphor is obviously the wrong word here. But OP is making a specific claim, that people now would engage in certain behavior if they were around during the satanic panic.

Now there are two parts here that inspire curiosity: the exact nature of the behavior (or what it means to say DNI if, etc.), and why you would say that behavior would be engaged in (what causes are present that lead to people in general having this behavior trait). What people are asking about when they ask about metaphor is, what is it about people now, their current behaviors, thought processes, and reactions, that is leading you to conclude they would react in X way in Y situation. It isn't unreasonable to ask this, even if they lack the understanding to be clear about their curiosity.

The thought process is, "Here's a claim about behavior, the implication is that the behavior is bad (a judgement of badness always inflames interest), the OP might be drawing this conclusion if people are behaving similarly about something that is not the satanic panic (since people probably assume there isn't a current satanic panic), but something(s) else is occurring that's somehow similar, what is that something else?"

Because the post is phrased as a conditional (if this was true, this would also be true), the prima facie (on first look) reading is that it is not true (even if that isn't contained in the strict logical meaning of the words). That is to say, while there may be ongoing satanic panic with people including that DNI, phrasing it like this suggests to readers that this is not what's happening, but someone analogous is. This is because there is a general rule in conversation that if information is present, it is relevant, so to state a conditional implies it at least might not be currently true.

While there certainly some unreasonable reactions above, the core question represented by the metaphor question expressed by some comments is not an unreasonable reaction, and comes from an appropriate and good faith understanding of the OPs main claims.

Reading comprehension is not the issue here, miscommunication is.

[essaressellwye]

Yeah, seeing this again, there are certainly people who seem to think "Satanic panic" is a couple of words OP threw together, but the post does lend itself to the reading "just as people fell for the Satanic Panic then, now they're falling for ___"

[meangirlnurse]

#literally#OPs responses were so grating to read#not to mention ableist as hell

people on this website believed that if they ate chocolate in a specific way that it would break reality and they would receive infinite chocolate.

i also – and this might be crazy for you to imagine – have some level of intellectual curiosity about historical events, wherein many people with similar politics to your average tumblr user very much did fall for the Satanic Panic.

but instead you could be a whiny little crybaby in the tags. up to you!

[moth-fuzz]

oh hi!

Look I get that you're probably tired of dealing with a post from years ago, so maybe I shouldn't have left the tags. I believe you that what you're saying about your own intellectual curiosity is true. It's good to be intellectually curious! It's absolutely not hard for me to imagine. But even now you're doing the thing you say you're not doing - "many people with similar politics to your average tumblr user" - what does that imply? To what politics are you referring? Who is this 'average tumblr user'? What kind of tumblr user would make such a DNI as found in the original post? The intellectually curious person is the person who asks these questions. Can you exercise that intellectual curiosity you say you have and maybe practice a little empathy toward the fact that using loaded statements is gonna have people asking what you're actually loading them with? To try to understand, to ask "gee, I wonder why so many people are getting this reading from my post?"

I'm certainly not whining or crying over this, come on. I said your responses are grating, which they are. If enough people respond to your post, all pointing towards a similar reading, you can't just call them all stupid and be done with it, while remaining intellectually honest. I called your comments ableist, which they are. Again, calling huge swathes of people stupid over a misreading. We all know what the satanic panic was, that's obviously not the issue. The issue is your phrasing is implicative, that's all. If you didn't intend to imply anything, that's one thing, but if enough people are reading that from your post, it's not just because everyone on this site is illiterate. By the way, the whole chocolate thing was over a decade ago.

Hope you have a good day.

[meangirlnurse]

it's not a loaded statement, you're just the most annoying people alive. incidentally, suggesting that someone looks up words they don't understand is not 'ableist as hell.' hope this helps

[sirilyan]

I want @meangirlnurse to write a one-sentence post referencing the September 15, 2008 filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy by Lehman Brothers, including the name, the date, and the event, just to see what this website will say the post was actually about.

[meangirlnurse]

i'm very sneaky. it could mean anything

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

"You'll be left behind if you don't get onboard with AI!" okay let's assume for a second that AI is The Future or whatever. Let's assume that it will be the cornerstone of all future work. Let's assume that, like the investment guys floating on the surface of the bubble are desperate to have us believe, It Is Inevitable. Frankly I still don't think I'd lose much by ignoring it until that day comes. Like I simply do not believe that prompt engineering could take all that long to learn. Call me naive but I think that if AI became critical for my life tomorrow, somebody telling me how to access chatGPT (I imagine they've got a website or an app or something?) and being like "Remember how you used to use google when it still actually worked? Start there" would be enough. I think I could figure it out in like an hour, tops, by fucking around with the site and maybe looking up some tips on reddit. So like. Even if "AI is the future" did somehow magically turn out to be true, I don't see how that affects me at all right now or why anybody bothers saying so. "AI is the future, if you were smart you'd be using it!" no I wouldn't. It still wouldn't be a skill that's worth my time to learn yet. Pointless addition to the discussion. Maybe I'm dunning-krugered or something but I simply do not think that it would be difficult enough that I would need to start practicing right now or I'm missing out on something.

[the-big-mood]

They were originally going to arrange them Mexico, Canada, USA but then some Disney lawyers appeared from the shadows. 🤣

GET THE SHIRT HERE

[the-big-mood]

I mean....

[zarithial]

thinking about the people who vanished without a trace. The mutual who reblogged something as usual and never came back online. The friend on discord who just disappeared, and when you go to check on them their account is deleted and theres no other way to contact them

I look out of my window and hope you are okay, I wish you well and Im sorry I didn't get to say goodbye.

I hope we meet again someday but until then. Stay safe. Stay alive. Be well.

[json-derulo]

Whenever they gave us one of those "read through ALL the instructions before you begin!" trick assignments in school where the steps lead you on an increasingly ridiculous goose chase until the final one tells you to just put your name on the paper and turn it in without doing anything else, I was always like, "Okay, but what's the point? Surely the REAL world won't be anything like this." And then I grew up and discovered that not only is the real world often exactly like that, some people won't even read the first line of the instructions even if they make perfect sense. And these people are called "co-workers"

[dogpuppy]

[nonlynear]

bear with me. but also twink with me and otter with me. happy pride month on planet earth baby

[dogpuppy]

[spicyvampire]

The way all the 2020s have done so far have been making me categorically against every new generation of tech that comes out is insane. Like I'm from a technological boom generation, saw the first portable phones, nokias & blackberries & flipphones etc, and the first smartphones, and the first ipods & ipads & tablets in general while still having cassettes & DVD & MP3 players around so I know how all of it work, I had computer classes in high school, I did the transition between home desktop computers to laptops and back to gaming computers. But then they started to put internet in your printer & microwave, everything has ads & AI now and every update is worst than the last. I literally loved technology and they ruined it

[gosimpsonic-deactivated20190116]

[elliot-amy]

Possibly in Michigan (1983) Cecelia Condit

[mintykiwi]

[mintykiwi]

EVERY YEAR

[cloth-fabric]

wmwm - fw26

[stuckinawaitingroom]

[nonbinary-jakey]

surely treating suicide as the most horrible forbidden thing possible and making it difficult to discuss candidly not only through social stigma but also the threat of kidnapping and forced drugging will prevent people from doing something that makes me personally uncomfortable