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"She went to step up to compete for the grade four shot-put final, and right before she went to throw, a grandfather of a student said, 'Hey, this is supposed to be a girls' event, and why are you letting boys compete.' My daughter is cisgender, born female, uses she/her pronouns. She has a pixie haircut," said mom Heidi Star.

Star says the man then carried on to demand certification to prove that her daughter was born female.

"He stopped the entire event. He also pointed at another girl who also had short hair. He then piped in and said, 'Well, if she is not a boy, then she is obviously trans.'"

Star said the man's wife then started calling her "a genital mutilator, a groomer, and a pedophile."

This is what happens when you allow Americanism to invade your country.

 

She also calls his parents by their first names.

 

:penguin-dance:

[–] stinky@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago

I get that. Watching what he did during the Abyss was convincing enough for me to say he’s not a good person. He puts his “art” above human life and treating people with dignity.

But I think the quote, charitably speaking, meant how today the indigenous people live a poor life because of the actions of the white suprematist state. I’m somewhat inclined to give him that charity because I know he was there fighting for indigenous rights in Brazil. And there’s the clear pro-indigenous narrative in the Avatar movies. So, it seems like he’s a “white saviour” type at best which is obviously problematic but in a different way than that quote.

And I can be totally wrong about this. I haven’t looked into it anymore than this. Maybe he really feels it’s the indigenous people’s fault they got genocided for not fighting harder. In which case, yeah, get fucked Cameron.

 

:pog-dolphin:

[–] stinky@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Return to Posadism, my friend. :hexbear-posadist: :posadist-nuke: :pog-dolphin:

[–] stinky@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Lmao. X-Files was 30 years ago, dude.

[–] stinky@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Yeah, she’s great. I have no idea why she hasn’t blown up. She’s been on YouTube for a looooong time.

 

Such cool systems exist in the world and yet we are stuck with the worst ones. :deeper-sadness:

 

One of my…friends is falling for their bs about China. I need some sources to either debunk their claims or show that they’re literally a cult.

[–] stinky@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

It’s the only recourse they have. They know their position is immoral, that future generations will look back at their meat-eating ancestors with absolute disgust, similar to how we look at the crimes of our own pasts. But rather than self-reflect, they get defensive and lash out.

It’s the purest, most unadulterated, form of cope.

[–] stinky@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Under communism all memes will be shared and expanded on communally.

Abolish the private property of memes.

Free the means of meme production.

 

I’ve heard a lot of high praise but it’s such a weird fucking show. It’s like as if Alex Jones made a TV show with all the cliche conspiracy theories.

I don’t know if I want to continue.

 

On Monday (10 April), lawmaker Nguyễn Anh Trí put forward a proposal to the Standing Committee of the National Assembly to create the new law.

Trí said the law would show that Vietnam values protecting vulnerable communities and “leaving no one behind in its policies”, Việt Nam News reported.

The proposed law would allow people the right to change gender identity, request a different gender identity to the one assigned at birth and the right to choose a medical intervention method for gender-reaffirming surgery.

In a feedback document the day before presenting the proposal, Trí said the government had outlined its support for the proposed legislation.

The chairman of the national assembly’s legal committee, Hoàng Thanh Tùng, said that the country’s legislative body appreciated the efforts of deputies in preparing the proposal.

Tùng added that the national assembly recognises the necessity of promulgating the law, but said that his committee required more clarity on the real-life basis for the creation and enactment of the legislation.

Some scope of the law overlaps with the 2015 Gender Affirmation Law that the government is continuing to study, with Tùng asking lawmakers to continue to look at the issue.

In 2015, Vietnam’s legislature passed the Law on Marriage and Family which removed a ban on same-sex marriage.

That same year, the country passed a proposed law enshrining rights for trans people, by allowing those who have had reaffirming surgery to register under their new gender.

However, in order for the Gender Affirmation Law to be enforced, the bill needed to be discussed by the national assembly, meaning it hasn’t come into effect, so the trans community has no protection from discrimination.

But LGBTQ+ rights are slowly being advanced and, in August, the country’s health ministry declared in an official document, that being LGBTQ+ is “entirely not an illness” and “cannot be ‘cured’, nor need[s] to be ‘cured’ and cannot be converted in any way”.

 
[–] stinky@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Avatar is still a mediocre movie (with thoroughly average characters and plot). It’s not better, as a film, than any marvel slop.

If that wasn’t enough, James Cameron is not someone to be admired. He’s a horrible person who abused his cast and crew to hell and beyond. All to make a movie that is filled with the most stereotypical indigenous representation and extremely basic world building.

What if all the plants glowed? Wouldn’t that be super cool?! I am a genius.

All the tribes in the world have the same hierarchical (and stereotypical) structure and speak the same language.

And the next film is about the “bad” navis apparently. So, it’s not even gonna be about (the most mild critique) of colonialism anymore.

Yes, it looks pretty. But that’s about it. It’s better than Marvel and Top Gun (barely) but nothing to be celebrated or memed about. He is an anti-worker piece of shit who doesn’t give a shit about indigenous struggles or their experience.

Read what some indigenous critics have said of the film and his comments. Read what his cast and crew have said of how he treated them.

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