Know your enemy

I remember people on reddit misgendering that antiwork mod for the crime of [checks notes] a botched interview on Fox News that didn't even fucking matter.
It was an ugly thing to see all that transphobia out in the open like that.
- That was a colossal fuck up of an interview though, made the entire anti work community look like a load of stupid freeloaders.
  Absolutely no excuse for the misgendering or any harassment, but I still wouldn’t undersell how bad that interview was.
  
  I’m almost convinced it was deliberate
  
  It was Fox News. Even if had been a stellar interview, they would have made it look bad.
  And I don't think it had any actual impact on how people viewed the community in general. It's just people being terminally online and blowing things way out of proportion.
  I agree the interview was bad, but it's also one of the most inconsequential parts about it. That's the tiniest most petty reason I've ever seen a community tear itself apart over. It was like a bunch of mindless chickens pecking one to death because they saw a spot of blood. Definitely on brand for reddit though.
  
  The anti work community had a lot of idiotic freeloaders who just didn't want to work. After the interview when the sensible people left, it got so much worse.
  Work reform was better, and came about as a result of that interview.
  
  That sub was a joke even before that interview. They banned me for asking someone to explain why an investor shouldn't have all the negotiating power if they are putting up 100% of the capital for a new business. Like I wanted to know how they thought that system should work because I don't see how some random person asking for money has any leverage. I wasn't agreeing with the current state of things.
  All I got was a permaban with a childish message from a mod.
  
  The interview was a shit show, but your interpretation of this and that it supposedly destroyed I find ridiculous.
- You think that interview didn't matter? It basically killed the entire conversation about wage/labor imbalance. And that had zero to do with that mods gender, but with that mods absolute stupidity, regardless of gender
  
  They were a bunch of liberals, the chances they would ever do anything was well into the negatives.
  
  This is so melodramatic lol
  It "killed" nothing. That was one bad mod vs. a bunch of users who were determined to self destruct.
- That interview did irreparable damage to the labor movement in the media.
  
  I... don't think that's the case. Last year was the year of labor wins across the board. Like, I don't understand how to parse what has happened in the world since with this statement. Media, especially corporate owned media, is always going to be somewhat antilabor. One bad interview from one person did not impact labor's perception in any meaningful way.
  
  Gamer take
- You already noted the problem: >people on reddit
  
  "people" on reddit

The purpose of language is to reveal and convey meaning and thought. Euphemisms and euphemistic language are designed to control how you talk about certain subjects and consequently, how you think about them. People who try to control how you think NEVER have anyone's "best interests" in mind but their own.
Don't let other people tell you how to manage your own head.
- that sounds super profound but imo makes no sense, what's your point? What is the euphemism in the OP?
- I love this comment because it can be applied to multiple perspectives on this cultural debate.

I disagree for one reason.
My uncle was being homophobic and transphobic so I started to misgender him so he could see what its like.
Unsure if he's less bigoted now but he definitely got quite upset and it made the point to everyone else around at least.

I don’t always misgender. But when I do it’s because the bro got nice tits or the momma looks swole AF.
- I try to speak respectfully to whoever I speak to and that includes using pronouns they want so getting it wrong is always unintentional. But I'll still always speak to any group of people as "you guys". I use that speaking to my 16 yo daughter and her girl friends. It's just not gendered speech, and I know some disagree but whatever
  
  So how many guys have you fucked?

lol third picture is best
- I am bothered by this Is there actually more pictures and I'm just a lil dumb
  Or are you trolling me
  Making me doubt my whole existence lmao
  
  Trolling. It's just a single picture.

Frank Miller Batman is still the best Batman.
- That REALLY depends.
  Year One? Absolutely.
  The Dark Knight Returns? Agree to disagree.
  All-Star Batman and Robin? Christ no, it might be the worst.
- Too bad Frank Miller is a terrible person. But yes, TDKR is one of my favorites.

That guy, who said we could use slurs for good. What happened to him? Last time I checked he was defending a white supremacist terrorist.

Which issue is this from
- Looks like Batman: The Dark Knight Returns.
  
  Aka the super fascist batman story

But if you say this about body shaming they'll just tell you their taret deserves it.
- Bit of a strawman, no?
  
  Less of a strawman and more of a non-sequitor whataboutism.
  
  Ive seen this community making fun of people for their weight or claiming people have small dicks when they do something they dont like so not really. Point proven though, yall don't care about body shaming.
- There's nothing awkward about it at all, nobody deserves to be bodyshamed, period. Yes, being overweight is unhealthy. The vast, vast majority of overweight people know this. The only thing you accomplish by expressing your concerns and "acknowledging it's bad" unprompted is making the person feel worse, they're not gonna go "Wow, li10 is concerned about my weight, this was the moment I was waiting for to start being healthier". This isn't a hallmark movie, it rarely works like that.
  If an overweight person expresses a desire to lose weight and be healthier, absolutely encourage and support that... but support looks like things like offering to be a gym buddy,sharing healthy recipes, words of encouragement as they progress, maybe even joining them on their diet, etc... and even then only if they've expressed a desire for that support. Telling them unprompted "I'm concerned about your health due to your weight" is NOT support, it's nothing but an empty platitude.
  
  No. I don’t think it’s awkward. At all.
  The only person whose weight and body is your business is your own. My body isn’t your business. Your neighbor’s body isn’t your business. Your coworkers body isn’t your business. It’s not your business and your opinion doesn’t matter about any body but your own.
  So how about this… let’s just not talk about each other’s bodies and let people be who and what they are. Fat people have enough shit to deal with already and they don’t need shit from you too, whether it’s ’support in losing weight’ or criticism.