• JayDee@lemmy.world
    91·
    6 months ago

    Nah, this is more a perfect metaphor of looksmaxxing grifters and similar folks leading youths into toxic lifestyles.

    • Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
      40·
      6 months ago

      I can assure you, my gender affirming surgery wasn’t done by someone in bad faith who had the explicit goal of killing me and packaging me to eat later.

      The actual fuck, dude?

      • America@sh.itjust.works
        46·
        6 months ago

        Just a heads up, “non-“ can extend to the following ideas in a list if they make sense with context. It’s often used in literature to avoid sounding repetitive. Given the mini-sentence structure dump, can you recognize that I support you and your transition from the bottom of my heart?

        • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk
          6·
          6 months ago

          If I’m reading you correctly, you’re meaning “non-reconstructive” and “non-gender-affirming”, i.e. you’re only pointing at “Mar-a-lago-face” and similar.

          I think everyone’s read you as though you were pointing at gender-affirming, though that seemingly wasn’t your intention.

          • America@sh.itjust.works
            4·
            6 months ago

            Precisely. I can’t really fault someone for misunderstanding, but I still find their response to trans inclusiveness with unfamiliar grammar funny.

        • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          5·
          6 months ago

          “non-“ can extend to the following ideas in a list

          It can, but it’s often better not to do so to avoid confusion. Especially when it’s something that’s under heavy attack these days.

          • America@sh.itjust.works
            3·
            6 months ago

            On lemmy, a site that has an overwhelmingly trans positive atmosphere, with a multi-year-old account from an instance that bans bigotry, commenting on an instance that would certainly ban abject bigotry. At a certain point, it’s silly.

            If I read that someone on kiwi farms prolifically used the n word, I wouldn’t wonder whether they were black.

              • America@sh.itjust.works
                3·
                6 months ago

                You’re right. By the time I had discovered the misunderstanding, I figured no one new would see it. The continued post attention is a surprise.

                Edit: mod beat me with a removal

      • America@sh.itjust.works
        31·
        6 months ago

        Because trans people deserve to feel comfortable in their bodies and surgery is a useful tool for that purpose