Everyone see the problem now?
For those who don't get the point, one of the top posts on all of Lemmy at the moment is doing this same thing. Mocking a (shitty) man by saying he "looks trans" now. That's not ok.
Since it's one of the most upvoted things on Lemmy at the moment it seems like an awful lot of people here don't understand that that isn't alright, so I'm trying to highlight it for them.
31 Comments
Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip · 10 pts · 1d
Couple of thoughts-
This is a shitpost community so serious posting about complaints with lemmy is likely to be poorly received regardless of how valid the hurt is. I'm not really a shitpost kinda person for the most part, but I'm REALLY not surprised venting hasnt garnered much positive reception (honestly I'm a little surprised the votes are almost even)
And second, the posts you embedded are worse and kind-of a different things from the one being referenced. The people in the post being referenced isnt being compared to trans people on the basis that hes ugly or for any of the reasons that make him a gross person. Hes being compared to trans people in large part on aesthetic grounds and because he has though his own action created the way he looks.
I agree in several respects with your sentiment- theres a subtext to that that trans people's appearances are manufactured and fake, and it drags trans people unrelatedly into commentary about someone people love to clown on, which feels shitty in the current political moment where trans people are being targeted. The post kinda gives me the ick, but its fundamentally not the same thing as the images you're comparing it to where the basis of the comparison is that theyre ugly or look weird.
But no matter the point, venting on the shitpost comm was never gonna get positive reception. I was confused with how many downvotes you were getting until I saw this was the shitpost comm of all places. I'm frankly surprised you're getting any upvotes at all, on comments or the post itself, but I'm guessing all of that is from c/all or who didn't read the comm.
Abyssian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
The original post is in this community. Calling it out in the dog walking community didn't seem like it would make much sense.
I don't care about Internet points. The result doesn't make me cry and feel worthless, it makes me ashamed of most humans.
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 1d
I agree with you but you also just did the same thing by posting this? So you want to be downvoted right?
Abyssian@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
I don't really care about Internet points, I just saw that on top of Lemmy every time I checked it yesterday and everyone mentioning it was fucked up in the thread got hate so I figured I'd make a sarcastic exaggeration to show the point.
jim_v@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2026/03/02/jim-carrey-conspiracy-theory-alexis-stone/88942857007/
This was a viral stunt that unfortunately, sparked a lot of theories about Jim Carrey that some people still believe.
Abyssian@lemmy.world · -7 pts · 1d
The point was up there in the words.
affenlehrer@feddit.org · 3 pts · 1d
I don't know what this is about. I'm also not up to date what's wrong with Jim. Last I remembered is that he strongly opposed Trump, so I had him in good memory.
JFLennson@feddit.org · 3 pts · 1d
Our saviour taking the downvotes from the shitpost community to make the point so we don't have too. ❤️
Abyssian@lemmy.world · -12 pts · 1d
How about this one? lol she does look super fucked up. Maybe it's ok to say that makes her look trans?
No? Because that's discriminatory and demeaning to an entire group of people? Maybe we shouldn't celebrate doing that then.
Sort of looks bad for that to be one of the most popular posts of the entire day on all of Lemmy. Right?
Abyssian@lemmy.world · -16 pts · 1d
Confused on what people down voting mean.
Are you trying to say we should post mocking this woman by saying she looks trans? Cause I'm highlighting how fucked up that would be.
Use your words. You can do it!
hirihit640@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 1d
No I don't think these ones "look trans" on the right. I think what you're trying to say is that the original meme is problematic. But the OG meme already admitted that. It's fairly standard for comedians to make "problematic" jokes. And it's up to the audience to judge if the laughs are worth it. In this case, based on the upvotes on the OG meme, and the downvotes on your post, it seems like you're in the minority.
Abyssian@lemmy.world · -11 pts · 1d
So you think you can tell trans people by their looks, and that "looks trans" is a thing. Can you spot gay people as well? That's an amazing skill that isn't based on reality but pure presumptive discrimination.
I don't care what you think up votes say, they seem to say the bulk of you are shitty people.
hirihit640@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 1d
I actually put "look trans" in quotes because that's what you were telling people to do, and I was saying no, I don't see it.
In fact the OG meme is evidence that you can't actually tell when people look trans, because obviously that guy isn't actually trans.
Disagreement is normal. Calling people shitty just for disagreeing with you, seems a bit unhealthy though.
Edit: for any other readers, the OG meme that I believe OP is referencing is this one
Abyssian@lemmy.world · -9 pts · 1d
You put "looks trans" in quotes but literally said you don't think the after pictures here look trans. So clearly you do think that "looking trans" is a thing.
hirihit640@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1d
Well I don't think they "look trans" because honestly I don't really know what that would look like
Abyssian@lemmy.world · -8 pts · 1d
So a meme mocking a guy's looks by saying that he "looks trans" is... insulting to trans people because it's saying there is such a thing as "looking trans"... and also more insulting to them because it's before and after images in which the person looks goofier after, so it is considering "looking trans" to be synonymous with looking goofy.
Make sense now?
WaitThisIsntReddit@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1d
Looking trans is when biological features show through your presenting gender. It is very possible to notice.
Nomad@infosec.pub · 8 pts · 1d
You might be a little intense and over the top... Leveraging the next best popular opinion for stroking whatever personality trait causes this begging for attention...
Abyssian@lemmy.world · -12 pts · 1d
You seem well practiced at trying to insult others in a way that would fly under the radar. Another one to block.