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the-meme-monarch

i need to get gender affirming surgery

saxifraga-x-urbium

nariarts

Longtime readers may be aware of how much I relish an excuse to bully a company, so I'm sharing the wealth;

Clothing company Patagonia is currently sueing drag queen Pattie Gonia for "irreparable” harm to their brand.

To be clear; Pattie named herself after the region in South America.

So Pattie is asking people to politely ask Patagonia to drop the lawsuit.

I'm extending the invitation to all of you, because sueing a drag queen for 'infringement' in the current political cultural landscape is vile. Especially a drag queen who has raised millions of dollars for non-profits, uses her platform to raise awareness for climate activism, and fully aligns with Patagonia's apparent climate-conscious mission statement.

They're claiming they're sueing for $1. They're actually asking her to stop using her name, and pay over $1 million in legal fees. They're straight up harassing her.

In contrast, drag queen Jan Sport has a Jansport bag line. It's that easy to just... work with a queen.

Anyway. Be respectful(ish), but feel free to be annoying on Patagnoia's socials, asking them to 'DROP THE LAWSUIT'

I think they have a twitter and tiktok too!

shadow-manor

This is being discussed heavily on Bluesky, such as here.

Patagonia is suing specifically for trademark infringement, and they're suing for the sum of $1. If they don't sue, then that means they could lose the trademark. They aren't trying to "silence" them or prevent them from using the name, they're specifically protecting their company trademark. They'd have to sue *anyone* who was using such an obvious knockoff of their logo; in this case it happens to be a drag queen.

batmanisagatewaydrug

you'll have to forgive me for not weeping for a billion dollar company's trademark being violated

shadow-manor

Go nuts. The point is that this isn't a company trying to dogpile on a drag queen, it's a company following a standard legal practice to protect its trademark. Disney does it all the time.

batmanisagatewaydrug

... yes, and I also hate Disney? I don't understand what you think you're selling me on here

shadow-manor

If you get a soda out of a vending machine and it has a Coca-Cola label but it's actually a knockoff made with ditchwater, that's obviously okay because Coca-Cola is a huge corporation and it's thus fine for someone to violate their trademark.

You can hate Patagonia all you want, but the lawsuit is about anodyne trademark law, not specifically that a drag queen is involved.

batmanisagatewaydrug

and what part of Miss Gonia's schtick is doing the harm equivalent of tricking someone into drinking ditchwater exactly?

shadow-manor

...the trademark part.

batmanisagatewaydrug

right, okay, I forgot that she's singlehandedly putting Patagonia out of business by using a silly joke name

netherator

if Patagonia loses their trademark, which they would if they didn't sue and win (again for one dollar), there would be no assurance against people putting a Patagonia label on amy dogshit

batmanisagatewaydrug

well I hope Amy Dogshit enjoys wearing the label I think she'll look very nice

kitsunekat9

Oh my fucking god y’all bootlickers are driving me crazy.

I’m a law student specializing in Intellectual Property, which includes Copyright and Trademark. I’ve studied these subjects and the law is clear that everything y’all said about Patagonia “losing the trademark” if they don’t sue Ms. Pattie is absolute bullshit.

Trademarks are only lost if they are abandoned by the user or if the product made by the company becomes so ubiquitous, everyday, and common that people start calling all types of that product by the trademark name. This is called genericide, because the trademark has become so generic, it is no longer an indicator of one singular source. Think Band-Aid or Thermos; we use those terms to refer to the generic products they’re associated with. We call pretty much all sticky bandages Band-Aids and all containers used to keep things warm in Thermoses.

What Patagonia is doing is actually closer to suing for trademark infringement based on tarnishment, which means the infringer is using the trademark name in a way that makes the company look bad or associates the company with things like drugs or pornography. Queen Pattie Gonia is someone who raises awareness for climate and environmental activism. Nothing about Miss Gonia’s use of the name tarnishes Patagonia’s brand.

The only possible argument the company has is that Miss Gonia’s queer identity could be seen as not “adult-friendly” but that very quickly slides into homophobic and moralistic territory that will absolutely be shot down by the court based on First Amendment rights. People are allowed to use “not safe for work names,” based on caselaw that states that “labels that are disparaging or morally offensive” are a violation of free speech because it’s people’s choice to say and use those names. For example, an all-Asian band applied for the trademark name “The Chinks” because they were taking the racially disparaging name and reclaiming it. The Trademark Office attempted to refuse to grant the band’s trademark, and when the band sued, the Supreme Court sided with the band.

That got off on a little bit of a tangent, but the long and short of it is this: Patagonia has absolutely no basis for a trademark name. Any IP lawyer would say the same. The reason Patagonia is getting away with a frivolous suit like this is because they know their target is a member of a vulnerable minority. Miss Gonia is 100% correct that they are trying to bully her because they know she doesn’t have the money to withstand a years-long expensive lawsuit.

It’s because of idiotic bootlickers who kiss companies’ asses like this that big corporations can get away with hurting independent creators. Patagonia does not have any chance at winning, but they know that just by filing and announcing their lawsuit against Miss Gonia, they are putting pressure on her to give up. If this lawsuit goes on, even if it doesn’t make it to court and just goes to a judge for a quick summary judgment, Miss Gonia would still have to pay for a lawyer to defend her and lawyers cost more money than the average person has. Miss Gonia would win, but because Patagonia set the damages for $1, even if she did win, she’d still end up in debt because in America, the typical rule is that each party pays for the cost of their own attorney’s fees. The only time the opposing side would pay your lawyer’s fees is if you have a contract with them that says so, and that’s usually only used in contracts between businesses or high profile individuals.

What Patagonia is doing is capitalizing on society’s hatred for queer people and anyone resembling a trans woman. Miss Gonia is a drag queen, not trans as far as I’m aware (though please do correct me if I’m wrong) but it’s not like a big company cares to differentiate; they’re just mad that a queer person is using their name in a way they don’t like. Patagonia knows that this particular population has been facing harsh discrimination in society currently. By siding with them, people are actively harming the queer community. Don’t pretend to hide behind trademark law to cover up your prejudices.

light-fogs

For folks who don’t know 504 is the U.S.A’s law that requires institutions to make accommodations so disabled people can live in their community instead of institutions. Every where from the Walmart, the bus stop, and schools. Currently multiple states are suing the federal government to get rid of this protection. Why are they doing this you ask? Well a student in Texas was looking to receive accommodations at their school for the gender affirming care. The state decide the risk of trans people having medical accommodations was just too much to bear and so we should just keep all disabled people inside again just to be safe.

jewish-sideblog

Dude what is with Chabad’s Jewdar??? I was in downtown Chicago recently, middle of the Loop, easily a hundred people on the sidewalk around me. I cannot stress enough that I am a pink haired, septum piercing transfemme who was wearing jeans and a sweatshirt. No Magen David, no kippah, nothing. I straight up look more like I would hatecrime a Jew than be one.

But this pair absolutely clocked me. They asked me, specifically, if I was Jewish— not anybody else on the street, and not any of the goyim I was traveling with. Just me. They were super nice, gave me Shabbos candles and sent me on my way. I’m still reeling from it. How did they know. How did they know???

beardedmrbean

wutheringheightsfilm

every day it just concerns me how little compassion people have. no compassion for those living in the global south. no compassion for immigrants. no compassion for disabled ppl. no compassion for addicts. no compassion for prisoners. no compassion for children. like holy shit ...

wutheringheightsfilm

i made a separate post about this but actually there are plenty of people cough white people who care about animals more than they ever do human people . not what i'm talking about make your own post

nourishedbytime

ghost-eses

this is the funniest thing ever because every 6 weeks the trans internet circulates a photo of a 15~ year old trans boy wearing any even slightly alt fashion and mocks them relentlessly.

and then they get mad at us for not using our privilege to break down barriers of what a man should/can look like whenever they catch a guy who looks like a normie cis man

sunshine-units

“transgender men dont need a new label to describe their oppression! there is one already. its called transphobia”

omg so true bestie we should keep pushing the narrative that “man” is the default state of being. im super transfeminist btw.

dykerightsmp3

the fact that Reylo discourse is now almost entirely 'is this ship toxic :)' always throws me off so much because I genuinely think the MUCH bigger issue with Reylo was that it pushed a black man to the side as Not Love Interest Material in favor of a white nazi. Like the issue is that shipping Reylo arrived transparently because people did not care about the black man – which I know, because the ship became popular before we even had The Last Jedi! When they'd barely interacted! If Kylo were black and Finn were white, Reylo would not be popular and it would never have become canon in any way, and I do think a refusal to grapple with that is honestly very embarrassing.

spacebeyonce

Few fandoms fill me with the kind of anger that the Star Wars fandom does. In fact, there are times where I’d go so far as to say that I hat

Note: I have an ongoing thread about this entire situation and the fans’ responses that fully covers the majority of what this fandom’s been

With that much power already, it can’t be a surprise that many white women in fandom will do pretty much anything in order to keep the statu

stitchmediamix documented all the reylo fandom's wretched behavior as it happened, and oh! how they hated them for it!

nyokoko

Stitch is still being harassed about this btw.

oceanamethyst

i saw the most stupid take ever

someone was talking about how it's weird that their tmasc friend is uncomfortable using the men's restroom when they pass and this is an example of "afab privilege"

like gee i wonder why he would feel uncomfortable

it's almost like transmascs have the highest assault rates

it's almost like the discrimination/misogyny one has faced from not being born a perisex man doesn't go away simply from being trans and transitioning into a man

it's almost like going into spaces that were technically built for cisgender perisex men is subjecting yourself to more situations where abuse can happen due to not being born a perisex man

it's almost like the very idea of "afab privilege" being a thing is misogynistic in itself

#also passing is incredibly subjective #i have a full beard and have been intentionally misgendered often #and also been told people wouldve thought i was cis if i hadnt told them #(also insulting)