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[–][deleted] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I want to inspire people to be who they are

Why is it always statements like this? Being who you are means accepting the reality of who you are, not making up a fantasy and demanding everyone else believe in it.

[–]wafflegaffWoman. SuperBi.[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well...I could crack an exasperated joke, but: For a number of reasons we're talking about a population that generally does not have as solid of a sense of self as one could hope for. They have learned that the Internet will enable them to indulge things that are clearly not reality-based. So what is obviously delusion to us is a bit fuzzier to at least some of them and made worse by the sea of enablers.

So they really do think that wallowing in fantasy is okay now.

When I look at people like that guy or any other male athlete stealing opportunities from female athletes, I think about all the accomplices they have in these endeavors: So many have held open the door for them and encouraged them to run inside and ransack women's protected spaces that they now think it's okay, as long as there's a mob between them and the women they're violating, at least.

They never really look completely at ease with what they've done.

The scary part is that they do not stop themselves. They're okay with being carried along by a mob of bullies. So as they stand there on those podiums, having stolen what rightfully belonged to women, all I see is their total complicity and the excuses they undoubtedly tell themselves in those moments, about why it's okay to steal.

[–]julesburm1891 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I had to look up who Emily Bridges is and holy fuck that Diva cover is both lighting tricks and a fuckload of photoshop. That’s a whole ass ugly man in reality.

Which really begs the question of why an ostensibly lesbian magazine is editing a man to look more like a woman on its cover. Are they just trying to lie to young lesbians?

[–]wafflegaffWoman. SuperBi.[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Seems it's not a lesbian magazine anymore. Here's Bev Jackson (among oodles of others of us who remember what Diva was): https://twitter.com/BevJacksonAuth/status/1528480825737629699

I think most of that photo is lighting and makeup, however. I don't think people realize how much you can alter someone's appearance with those two things, and really, you want to get as close to the intended look as possible before you get to any post-processing work. Either way, they've played up femininity quite a bit, yes. But in seeing the non-staged photos of Bridges, I can easily see how they got that result for the cover. But it doesn't really matter if it's Photoshop or photography. Point being Emily has willingly taken things from female athletes that don't belong to Emily. Diva is captured and playing right along.

[–]automoderatorHuman-Exclusionary Radical Overlord[M] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

RIP Snappy, I AM THE NEW GOD!

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[–]wafflegaffWoman. SuperBi.[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

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