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see the thing about iwtv is that i will always believe louis no matter what unless claudia says something different. then i believe claudia. lestat could tell me that it's raining during a thunderstorm and id need a peer review.

i-enact-postvore

You ever think about many peices of media have zero women and thats just perfectly normal but if a peice of media has an all female cast people get... like that? Women should be allowed to kill over this btw

#for a second I forgot misogyny existed and op was describing toxic yuri fandom

strangehorse

Is anyone else starting to feel kind of wary about the increasingly common narrative that "women's bodies are so different to men's that modern scientific recommendations do not apply to them"?

Like. There is a significant gap between 'a lot of studies do not take into account variations caused by things like female hormone cycles, which can limit how generalisable they are' and 'medical science does not apply to women', and the latter just seems to create a situation rife for bad faith actors and snake oil salesmen to reassure you that actually, THEY have the answers, because THEY listen to women, and if you simply pay them for their online subscription service-

strangehorse

like. female and male bodies are not different species. the traits you consider inherent and unique to Female or Male can often be changed by hormone therapy and other interventions, and many traits fall on a bimodal distribution, not a binary one. you can apply the findings of 'Invisible Women' without implying that female bodies are like, Startouched Special Moon-Tied Nature Creatures that are immune to all known scientific phenomena

#this is the first time someone has articulated this properly thank you #the natural path For Women is so insidious #because it validates the absolute fucking sickening humiliation it takes to get doctors to take women seriously #and sucks them in to paying $500 for some vitamins

The concept of hating Iran for using AI in their propaganda videos...

#sorry this is also something I saw recently that made me feel like AI hate was just a bit unserious

wiltking

so you're telling me the fifa world cup is all men? its all men's teams? and so is the superbowl? and all the sports teams that states are known for and make copious amounts of merch for are also men's teams? and only 5 women have ever entered formula one since its inception in 1950 and only two of them were able to compete? and this is normal? its acceptable?

wiltking

i grew up playing backyard soccer on the pc as a child in the early 2000s where boys and girls would play on the same team and against each other and you're telling me that's still an unrealistic fantasy that can't happen in real life?

Honestly, on your ai post, I sort of agree. I'm very much anti ai (I don't like how it's pushing artist and creatives out of their fields and other workers out of jobs, it's exploitative, it does have an economic impact because, despite data centers already existing, it's pushing for an increase in those data centers, etc.) but I think one of the things I hate about it most on a personal level beyond a moral level is that it makes fanspaces feel lonely. There's a level of uncertainty in fan spaces I don't feel existed as strongly before, and it makes me sad.

See it's like. AI is not the cause of this alienation but has become the fertile ground to articulate a resentment of this increasing social loneliness (what with chatbots and the like). The same thing has happened in fandom, but unfortunately the reality is the undergirding politics that allow AI to rapidly expand and take jobs is the problem that needs to be resolved. AI itself has not existed without this gross and immoral context, so it's hard for me to apply a definite moral judgment upon it.

And it's what unfortunately feeds my resentment because it feels like the people who hate AI act deliberately obtuse to the undergirding politics, and in this moment that is absolutely outrageous.

At the same time make no mistake. Being forced to disable AI over and over and over again drives me absolutely fucking insane and I want Elon Musk's head on a pike

What's your opinion on ai? especially in fandom spaces.

Annoyed, generally.

It's a quagmire of annoying with some people electing to be an informal police and harass people accusing them of ai use. Ethically it's annoying because it wades into a conversation of "derivative" art and copyright that's been happening for decades, but some of the most ignorant people with no regard for art outside of fandom regurgitate talking-points that are, well, decades old. Some people hate AI in a very strange way where they laud the "virtue of work" in a way that all their other politics would usually side-eye. And generally I find the overwhelming condemnation and hatred exhausting for how little it seems to want to critique the fact that AI was proliferated enormously fast at the urging of an incestuous tech scene that exerts massive control over our lives through our devices and how that control has literally killed people, but no, let's talk about how someone used AI to generate an image that was obviously based on "stolen" work.

At the same time I find the overreaction to AI annoying I also find the presence of AI "helping" tools annoying, especially when writing. While generated art is a quagmire, generated writing is really easily understood to be bad so it's 🤷 re fanfiction imo. If generated writing "became good" I don't know if the enjoyment id get out of it would be for the sake of the story itself or through close-reading all its chosen inspiration (why would the AI choose Jane Austen for this prompt? What does this reflect about the proliferation of this one work?). I kind of don't see how AI could make a compelling story that didn't fall flat (vs creating a pleasing image of two dudes kissing). I am strongly concerned for lacking literacy skills, but I was concerned about that for a long while. AI is one part of an enshittification whole.

Outside of AI helping tools AI doesn't affect me very much. Except for the utterly fucking annoying rants my profs waste time with at the beginning of every class.

#however I do think fandom generally operates on a currency of appreciation #and AI is like poisoning the well of what otherwise was a self sustaining ecosystem #I could also say the social aspect of creation is part of the appeal of fandom #not just the fan works themselves #likeeee not to be a cynic but I think ''fandom'' generally is dying #and the lashing out at AI is like they've finally found a scapegoat #when the reality is it's just getting harder and harder to let ''fandom'' dominate your personality #and identity #like the irrational obsession was the point #but like. who has the luxury to post about such things these days #and a huge amount of fandom has moved to other platforms with different cultures #like twitter fandom beef is sooooo bad #and the amount of fandom-y people who have politically moved right is 😬#idk fandom politics in general was always very (white) liberal-progressive #(or at least the queer Renaissance was)#and now it's like 🤷🤷🤷🤷#it's hard to form niche community now because like #every niche has its own version of nazi #so to be In Community with people in fandom spaces is getting more and more impossible #the social currency is already ruined #add ai and the paranoia and mistrust doubles

cloudabserk

project hail mary spoilers!!! significant ones!!

i see a lot of people on tumblr and twitter say that stratt was wrong and doesnt understand grace. “she thought he needed traditional relationships to be happy, but she doesn’t get that he has students and casual friends!”

i think that’s an incorrect assessment of the situation. it’s extremely explicit esp in the book that grace (despite being friendly and very well liked) maintains distance from other people and doesn’t consider himself to have any close relationships or friendships. he has coworkers and old pals he’d grab a beer with but he does not have (and has maybe never had) anyone he would die for or even risk his life for. (in stratt’s opinion, because he is scared.)

and the whole point of the story is that it is an unfulfilling way to live! waking up stuck completely alone in space is so horrifying but that’s the “extreme” version of what grace already naturally does. it’s not that he needs like, a wife and 2.5 kids, it’s that he needs to love and care for others. actually it’s not even that he “needs to”. it’s that it will be fulfilling and rewarding and meaningful for him. and yes it will be really hard and scary but it will be worth it

cloudabserk

me when i’m 100% fulfilled with casual friends and acquaintances and my life wouldn’t be improved by forming lasting and meaningful bonds. i’m dancing with this mop and pretending it’s a person because of how much i don’t want that

#this actually annoys me because stratt is his most intimate relationship!!!!#he's made repeated bids to develop a relationship!!!#she's legitimately his friend and it shows and it's why it's a BETRAYAL #it's why that awesome actress played the part like that #(and sorry made stratt a million times better than book stratt)#people being like stratt is a brutal pragmatist like maybe in the book that's true!#but they're friendship/closeness/weird romance ish is paralleled with fucking rocky!!!#like communication issues culture issues creating a working relationship #admiration for their competency and being to painfully curious about them #like stratt is his strongest relationship before he's shipped off #the idea that stratt doesn't value non traditional relationships like that's CRAZY #she's a woman on a suicide mission of her own where she gives everything to save the world #and yet she sings #Ugh

cloudabserk

i see people saying andy weir isnt good at writing female characters and i think that’s fair and true and should be said, but also. characters of any kind are not really his strength lets be real

cloudabserk

“why did they change grace/rocky/stratt from their book versions!” “why did they cut out so much!” because otherwise the movie would have been sarcastic smart guy, sarcastic smart alien, and sarcastic smart dutch woman alternating between snarky quips and monologues on sci fi problem solving for 8 hours straight. which may have been fun but probably not a hit movie.

feminist-space

kristina100000

gothhabiba

if the Hunger Games were real you know you'd have liberals saying things like "it's so cool how the Hunger Games allow anybody a chance to win, it's so democratic" and "it's great to have some District 12 representation amongst the winners of the Hunger Games" and "we need to make sure that young girls receive just as much Hunger Games combat training as young boys #feminism"

hussyknee

human-pet-they

when the author describes someone dying and you can just tell they’ve never actually died by the way it’s written

doctorwhowatchesthewatchmen

the circus is empty, all of the monkeys are here

perception-filter

staring at the dessert menu and twirling my hair and going "should I be baaaaddd" until the autistic girl I'm eating with says "there is nothing bad about eating dessert. it is a morally neutral action"

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