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One half of the meme is an abortion rights campaign phrase, which is a badly needed campaign because women don’t have that right in many places around the world. And it’s majorly opposed by conservative men. Those same men also use the term “females” to refer to women in a derogatory way.

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The thing about the abortion slogan, 'my body my choice' - it's so powerful because after saying it, it is then used to compare with a multitude of other things; body modification, assault, how people engage with sex and choose their sexual partners. I therefore think the principle came before the use in abortion access messaging.

And it’s majorly opposed by conservative men

Okay, i can definiteky see how this has the format of ome of those "~~take down~~ discredit the initial argument by either taking it to the absurd or highlighting an inherent contradiction in society." format.

But first we have to consider: are many conservatives vegan? This is definitely advocating a vegan, environmentalist, or degrowth agenda.

[edit to add: use of word "carnist" and cross post to vrgan community on the solarpunk instance indicates this isn't conservative]

And after that - if the meme exists to discredit the pro choice attitude, do you feel like it has been sucessfully discredited? The principle hasn't, of course, but it does highlight cognitive disonance.

So with this context, can you see that the meme isn't actually anti-pro-choice, but rather believes it should be applied to animals? That's the long and short of the post in my opinion.

Those same men also use the term “females” to refer to women in a derogatory way.

Too general i think; i know that some people do this, some "very online people"

only when you get to the end of the text do you realise it exists for 1 messaging purpose

This is ALSO a very common method for that exact same group to pretend their misogynist messaging is covered up when pointed out. They go “it’s not about dehumanizing women, it’s about veganism bro!” Or “that’s not the point, you’re digging too deep, keep being triggered lol”.

This is a common method to dogwhistle their in-group.

Do we have such people on lemmy? I see this as a staunchly politically-gatekept community, this Social Medium, and i think conservatives and misogynists like to post on twitter instead. That said, i guess there's mastodon which is more politically diverse.

they could have, I suppose, opened with a woman saying “I’m sure glad I’m not artificially inseminated every nine months so milk can be harvested from my body!” Then cut to a picture of a cow in the second panel. It’s essentially the same thing.

It’s the same surface level message. But using their misogynist worldview to carry the surface level message ALSO reinforces that worldview

Biological men can't get pregnant and don't usually produce milk. That's why it has to be a woman in the meme.

I'll pre-emptively say that the Meme also isn't suggesting women in particular are too ignorant to pay attention to animal rights issues, or something. Just in case you're intending to posit that. It's just that humans in general don't know about these farming practices.

The more you also support that framework, the more the framework is normalized. The more the framework is normalized, the easier it becomes to dehumanize and degrade women

Is your problem with the meme the fact that a woman appears to be the one being criticised? The reader is being criticised (for inaction/unawareness) and is supposed to relate to the woman, as another human. Reader is supposed to be apalled to learn that cows are routinely inseminated.

And if by framework you mean memes, they're plenty normalised. Not much i can do to change that.

From what I can tell, Larping and DnD stuff is rising in popularity and visibility, and I think this will improve people's ability to stell stories collaboratively.

(I actually don't play DnD myself but I like a bunch of media derived from that and LARPing)

Also if Hollywood could break up and film studios become smaller and more spread out I think that would help

Though if it has a commited official group of creators - it doesn't let random people write - it may well become a haven against AI. Anyone who actually wants to use AI will vainly try and create a narrative all by themselves, and those who commit to a project with others will disavow using it. It's certainly a big slap in the face to the other writers if you use it on a Collab project

Do you believe that it's impossible to use the word "female" without it being sexist?

Because this is some take I've seen floating around and it seems like a a serious misunderstanding of the "incels call women females and femoids" dynamic, and for the sake of not getting annoyed by so much stuff you see online it would be a good idea to course correct.

The thing about this meme is you have to look at why it exists

only when you get to the end of the text do you realise it exists for 1 messaging purpose
the message is: "Fun Fact! Did you know that the dairy industry ~~forcefully~~ artificially impregnates cows to ensure they can produce milk all year-round? They're kept pregnant constantly.
That's the entire purpose of the meme but to elevate your sympathy, a comparison is drawn between animals and humans. Now, you might not respect animals as much as a vegan does, but obviously you know what a vegan is and that they therefore may well see animals as equal to humans.
simply put, with the current format of the meme no combination of words exists for them to compare and contrast humans to animals, other than "females."
they could have, I suppose, opened with a woman saying "I'm sure glad I'm not artificially inseminated every nine months so milk can be harvested from my body!" Then cut to a picture of a cow in the second panel. It's essentially the same thing.
milk and production of it is obviously pertinent to the female mammal experience. I think this is a completely appropriate time to use the word "females."

If you disagree with this analysis and have picked up on more that indicates it is actually sexist, go ahead and tell me.

This is why I scan over things on the internet first before actually reading them nowadays. Everything is malformed messaging to increase it's viral-spread quality.

...or the humanisation of other life. You know you can just say "well actually I love drinking milk and I can't think of a way to sustain that lifestyle without industrial farming processes" instead of pretending vegans are all misogynists, which doesn't make sense

If you zoom in it looks like AI swirls to me. I just don't think a drawing would use such regular shading pattern

Yeah me too - too sleepy to go out and meet people!

I think that makes people feel worse 😕 I'm gonna assume that it's a big contributor to the romantic aspect of the "loneliness epidemic"

I think when they said "specifically a frontend" they mean that they don't have a twitter account and use something like nitter to view posts. The funny thing is that they will have specified this to minimise comments like your one.

I could be wrong though?

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Some other interesting vids from Cambrian Chronicles:

The tribes of ancient britain

What everyone gets wrong about King Arthur

Also, the video linked above took like 3 years to make according to the description.

I watched that video yesterday! I've been subbed to him for a year or so and rarely gotten around to finishing videos because they're very long, but it's a fascinsting wealth of content he has

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Test yourself:

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