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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] Small_Quasar@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Men and women. Males and females. Girls and boys. People are obsessed with gender to the point they forget we're all just human.

Last night I was watching these two chuds watch one of my favourite movies (Children of Men) and one of them, responding to Julianne Moore's character's behaviour said "Ah, I HATE women like that!" and it genuinely caused my brain to skip a beat. There was nothing about the character's actions that was specific to female behaviour. I don't understand why he couldn't have said "I hate PEOPLE like that."

I am an aspiring writer. I did a beta reader swap with one of my colleagues who just like me would like to be a sci-fi author. He was desperate to know how I was "so good" at writing women. Dude, lol, it's not hard. Literally all you have to do to avoid all the men-writing-women pitfalls is remember that women are human beings first and women second, with all the same desires, hopes and fears as men.

[–] Goodeye8@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

You know I've always considered women to be people.

GRRM when asked how he writes women so diverse and authentic.

[–] Smeagol666@crazypeople.online 2 points 2 days ago

I just watched Children of Men the other day, I have it on DVD. The way they killed Moore's character off is always jarring, like "fuck, I forgot that she dies now".