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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • I am struggling to understand why approaching any topic with calm and critical thinking instead of potentially rash action based on potentially temporary feelings is toxic?

    If you’re internally dating to be queer for a long time, that clearly is not a temporary situation. If you then talk to someone and they throw that statement, of course, they can go f themselves.

    My critique is that this phrase is very general and not healthy to just put out there in a general context. Words mean things, in general. This is not a phrase like arbeit macht frei or something that is obviously used in bad faith. The phrase is, in my opinion, reasonable.

    I am sharing that, in my experience, if I had used this approach on everything my friends or family have said, I would not be where I am today, and I definitely regret a LOT of decisions that I thankfully avoided because people told me to go slow and think critically before acting. or “Not acting on a potentially temporary feeling”.

    If my experience is unhealthy to you, so be it, but it’s not toxic to tell you what or how I have made positive experiences hearing this phrase. To me, especially how it’s drawn here the character with the stamp is being toxic. Dismissing without asking someone who is calmly saying something. Depict the saying character in a dismissive or hostile way? Fair point.

    I used to be in the queer community more, but was trying to get away from the internet in general after experiencing just … general hostility to any challenge to any kind of established thought or trend.



  • What exactly does this phrasing not apply to? It is phrased as a blanket statement, and that’s what I don’t think is healthy. If this said “your gender is for sure just a temporary phase,” and someone stamped that as wrong, I would agree with the stamping.

    You might be right that I am just splitting hairs, but I find the phrasing generalistic and toxic. I think a blanket statement, like the one shown here, without any other context, should not be taken as gospel. That is a critique of me personally.

    I also absolutely agree with what you are saying, but only in that context that you are describing.

    … Now that I am reading this back I might be overinterpreting internet culture, I am not into memes as I used to so maybe the context is more obvious than I am used to…



  • Edit: I misinterpreted this! It’s someone saying ‘you’re being dumb’ and the character telling them, 10 years later, to suck it.

    I originally thought that the meme meant to say:
    10 years ago, you wouldn’t have been able to dismiss people saying this because of the lack of progress in the field/community. And that now, 10 years later, you can dismiss these statements outright.

    Thx @princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone for the explanation. But I am not a troll just because I didn’t understand it the same way you did instantly :)

    Original comment:

    This is a really bad approach as a blanket statement :/ Yes, a phase can be permanent (I got out of my ‘its temporary’ mindset as well and now know its permanent), but this is not a general rule.

    Relationship not going perfectly? That may be permanent or just a phase, but you should definitely not assume just because you suddenly have a drop that it is permanent! Most of life goes through highs and lows, especially in social contexts.

    This is, IMO, a seriously toxic approach. “I’ve had a disagreement with something with my lifelong best friend, now I am angry with him so I will immediately end the entire relationship because of this temporary issue without putting any work into resolving misunderstandings.” This sounds so entitled I can’t even. Put effort into issues, see if you can resolve temporary feelings or problems. Find out, calmly, if they are temporary or permanent for yourself.

    Don’t make rash decisions under uncertainty. Don’t make permanent decision based on temporary situations. Think first.

    This applies just the same with your own secuality. Calmly think for yourself. OFC others should stfu.


  • So, whether this is a good or a bad thing hinges on the question of whether they are willing to maintain the code/features they have produced? As it stands, their course of action, even if they are only contributing code for features they want to have, is “better than nothing,” I think? Would it be significantly better if they didn’t contribute anything from the get-go? As it stands, I would stand on the side of “careful optimism” that they will maintain whatever they are building, but only time will tell…

    As an Austrian, the fact that they are doing anything sensible at all within the digital world is astonishing to me.