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Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

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Post by PolygonSheep »

0des wrote: post #15
diebeforei485 wrote: post #8

They shouldn't shy away from controversial content for fear of offending people.

Their core demographic is offended though.

It's good for engagement. Get everyone talking about the latest Netflix controversy. Release Cuties and piss off all the stupid uptight conservatives who don't understand it's just a coming-of-age story, then release a Chappelle comedy special and upset all the right-thinking leftists who don't understand it's actually pro-trans.

Then no matter whether you go to get your daily Two Minutes Hate in, all you see is NETFLIX NETFLIX NETFLIX NETFLIX NETFLIX everywhere.

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Post by hirvi74 »

robonerd wrote: post #298
nautilius wrote: post #215

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For me that's the only interesting discussion to be had here. Separation into female and male leagues were installed partially because of sex (so that it's fairer), but initially mainly because of gender (women must not do the same fun things we do). Then again, it is 'unfair' that Simone Biles has the physique she has that fits to her chosen sport better than mine; Michael Phelps likewise; Alex Honnold processes fea…

> Separation into female and male leagues were installed partially because of sex (so that it's fairer), but initially mainly because of gender (women must not do the same fun things we do). I don't know all the history of it so I won't make claims about how it started. But what you're saying does not describe the reality of highschool sports as I experienced it. I was a competitive swimmer in highschool; the team wa…

To add to this, the Women's Olympic Ice Hockey teams of the US and Canada -- both professional and highly skilled teams, have been known to practice against high school level and/or high school aged boys teams and both national teams don't always win either.

I am not saying any of this to discredit the hard work and skill these women have accomplished, but at the end of the day biology is biology.

As an avid hockey fan, I think that the two sexes play a similar, but slightly different styled game (male professional leagues allow contact unlike female leagues), but I think we should celebrate and enjoy the differences each style that hockey or any game has to offer.

Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

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Post by [deleted] »

margaretdouglas wrote: post #91
onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #85

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Funny - I find Netflix content keeps getting better. Dark, Ozark, Unorthodox, Russian Doll, Sense8, Love Sex & Robots, The OA. Not as good as HBO - but honestly it seems close. If anything - HBO's content seems to be on the decline more than Netflix. It's still top notch, but it used to be outstanding. Netflix is really mastering the wide appeal & good enough content: 13 Reasons Why, Elite, Bridgerton, Bird Box, etc.…

I wish more people would watch Dark. Horrendously underrated.

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Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

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Post by h3cate »

nautilius wrote: post #209
h3cate wrote: post #170

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Where did they say they weren't acknowledging or accomodating trans people? Original comment clearly acknowledges trans people exist?

OP very clearly writes that they "don't think it's transphobic to push back on trans activists" who, unlike him, "demand the world accommodate" . Again, the only 'accommodation' that is asked is to just let them live. Seems like not a hard thing to do, and not something one would have to go out of their way of to 'push back against'. If you don't like the thought of buttfucking, don't. If you don't like the thought o…

Your comment, like speech in general I admit, doesn't tell the whole truth.

"Again, the only 'accommodation' that is asked is to just let them live."

This isn't true as they are asking that comedians to not make jokes about them. Dave Chapelle nor any comedian that I know of go around saying trans people should not be allowed to live. Or have I missed something?

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Post by fghpppop »

thomasfedb wrote: post #149
parkingrift wrote: post #123

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Gender dysphoria is a mental disorder. Wanting something to be different doesn’t actually make it different. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/gender-dyspho...

There's an important distinction here. To quote that page: > Gender dysphoria is the feeling of discomfort or distress that might occur in people whose gender identity differs from their sex assigned at birth or sex-related physical characteristics. Being transgender is not the same as having gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria is the (sometimes) associated distress. It is effectively an administrated diagnosis, witho…

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Post by ionlolo »

TaylorAlexander wrote: post #311
stickfigure wrote: post #205

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For folks without 1:19:51 to spare, can you summarize the points of that video? I'm not familiar with Chappelle's other work, but I watched the special (The Closer) and I didn't see what you seem to claim. I noticed: * The heroine/protagonist is a trans woman. * Chappelle was meticulous about using feminine pronouns (with one deliberate exception, I'm not going to spoil it, but it was respectful). * He argued for tra…

Feel free to watch it for 20 minutes on 1.75x speed and just get what you can from it. One of the things I learned as a white guy (before transition) was that expecting marginalized groups to shoulder the burden of education is real draining. I did what I can to explain in my comment that Chappelle was punching down and bringing up old tropes. But I’m exhausted just reading the replies. I watched the video six months…

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Post by antifa »

nxm wrote: post #329
antifa wrote: post #268

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Nobody's trying to convert your family, you're just trying to stop your family from knowing LGBT people exist.

See libs of tiktok - kids are already being groomed at young age

Anyone who spends more than 5 seconds investigating that would see they've exposed approximately zero groomers.

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Post by georgia_peach »

otde wrote: post #233
ok_dad wrote: post #193

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Why would you be opposed to individuals choosing to live as they will? Suppose I was trans, why would you be scared of or hate me knowing nothing else? I’m not trans, but I don’t get the hate, trans people literally don’t affect you a bit.

The sibling comment actually does a pretty good job articulating why we as trans people (surprise! I’m one of them) receive the reactions we do. It’s a fundamental disgust at the concept of a trans person existing, full stop. In an ideal world for these people, we simply would not exist. We challenge their expectations by asking to be addressed in a way that goes against their ideas of what gender, at its core, means…

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