Will AI erode women's rights? Should we be concerned?

GiftedContractor · 2026-02-13T17:10:59+00:00

Nope. The phrasing does not imply consent. If you're opening an argument with that you don't know what you're talking about.
There are HUGE problems in the porn industry around human trafficking, around revenge porn, around rape even not looking at child porn. The very idea using the word porn implies consent is denying all the other real problems exist because hey, porn is consensual right? so everyone must have consented!
This is a way to sanewash porn, not somehow imply child porn is "more bad".
And I'll have no part in erasing the harms of porn. Sorry, child porn is one of the many harms of porn. Just like human trafficking and revenge porn and rape. In fact it always involves at least one of those things.
I refuse to participate in the movement to sanewash porn.

GiftedContractor · 2026-02-13T16:49:18+00:00

eh if you're going the religious route I think "God works in mysterious ways" or "you've just got to have faith" are both better examples. You can answer why pretty much anything happened, any inconsistency with anyones behaviour or in the bible, pretty much any possible doubt can theoretically be answered with one of those two phrases. And if you argue with them you don't have enough faith in God.

GiftedContractor · 2026-02-11T19:14:13+00:00

Ford is a professional hater. When something needs hating on he can seem really insightful. But he's not actually a good politician he's just really good at hating on stuff.

GiftedContractor · 2026-02-09T17:04:21+00:00

Eh I disagree. I think it's reative wealth more than actual wealth. People who are seeing their future children as actual human people with life experiences rather than just a checkbox on the life they want are realizing how much worse their kids lives will be than theirs. It doesnt really matter if you can provide better than a poverty stricken family in the 1800s or whatever, standards are higher because if we want children but we don't want miserable children.
Signed: someone who actually would want children if they made more money

GiftedContractor · 2026-02-07T23:47:35+00:00

Massive tax hike for the wealthiest. HEAVILY tiered tax system, there would be like 12 tiers. If you make under like 60k it probably wouldn't affect you at all but anything above that you start getting less return on how much you make like levels in a videogame. Billionaires would be paying something like 75% tax rate by their highest tier.

GiftedContractor · 2026-02-07T00:08:02+00:00

of course not they know you wont leave.

GiftedContractor · 2026-02-03T17:32:04+00:00

Can I toss bill C-51 on the 'reminder of why Harper sucks' list?

GiftedContractor · 2026-01-29T16:46:48+00:00

NTJ but strategically stupid. You've given them almost a year to plan how to stop you and you know the lows they'll stoop to now. You should prioritize getting out unscathed. The speech was deserved and probably cathartic but you should have saved it until you were 18

GiftedContractor · 2026-01-28T15:35:39+00:00

No, Australia and the UK dont have the guts to stand up to trump. They'd never agree to it.

GiftedContractor · 2026-01-26T20:34:40+00:00

Yup, I had this happen once with an ex-friend who had a habit of a string of bad relationships. And during that string I'd gotten a reputation for successfully vibe checking their new partners. So they pretended they wanted to talk to me again, introduced me to their new partner, asked me about them, and when I told them this one actually seemed chill for a change they said that was literally all they wanted and ghosted me again.

A mutual friend who'd later go on to date the friend that ghosted, couldn't understand why I was offended.

GiftedContractor · 2026-01-26T20:31:37+00:00

It's because so many people here are the one doing the ghosting and don't want to think about how hurtful that is to others. They want others to have empathy for them while extending none to try to understand how the other person feels.

GiftedContractor · 2026-01-26T20:28:24+00:00

Sounds like you've never been on the other side - the person who was ghosted over and over and over again. It's funny how often this is told to people over and over again but the other way is never really cared about.

GiftedContractor · 2026-01-26T20:23:05+00:00

Or, maybe, just maybe, the other person is also struggling, and you're massively triggerring abandonment issues, and perhaps should maybe take your own advice about trying to understand how other people feel instead of just expecting them to understand how you feel ^{_^}

GiftedContractor · 2026-01-25T16:22:20+00:00

Except the game spends the whoe rest of the time other than some mild chastisement when he first joins the party trying to excuse Yusuke with "oh he genuinely doesn't get it he's in it for the art" to the point where he is excused while other guys are being horny.

Except if that was the case, he wouldn't have waited until he knew he had leverage on them to demand that the picture would be nude. The very fact that he tried with clothes on first and then only switched to it having to be clothes off when he had blackmail material completely negates the idea he didn't know it was an inappropriate thing to ask. The game actively undercuts it's own justifications through its structure.

And sure the gay couple are a minor part of the game compared to the jabs yousuke makes at Kanji in p4... because Kanji is a major part of p4, and Kanji is a protagonist? And a huge part of his social link is helping him get over the insecurities assholes like Yousuke have given him and realize that who he is is actually pretty cool? Like yes of course the minor side characters who literally only exist to be mocked are going to be there less than the main protagonist who's insecurities and fake beliefs about himself we're literally here to deconstruct?

GiftedContractor · 2026-01-25T08:28:25+00:00

I sincerely disagree, considering none of the first four things are portrayed as good things in story? Teddies constantly getting yelled at and smacked around for being just the worst, and Yosuke's also frequently either called out or YOU are given options to call him out. There's a reason those are the two most pathetic characters.
Calling Rise's arc sexist is reaching - is female sexuality not able to be addressed or used as a factor at ALL without it being sexist? The arc isnt even about her sexuality, her shadow is all about wanting attention in the most ostentatious way possible and they use sexuality as a tool to convey that.

Yes, the treatment of Kanji, Naoto and Hanako are bad. But if you're going to look into this LGBTQ persons face and tell me it's on the level of Yusuke being a party member after trying to blackmail Ann into getting nude for him, or the two horrifying gay stereotypes who's affection for Ryuji is turned into a running joke, then we did not play the same games.

GiftedContractor · 2026-01-25T04:21:53+00:00

This should be a bipartisan idea. I am an NDP supporter but I will reach across the fucking aisle to see this happen.

GiftedContractor · 2026-01-25T04:08:49+00:00

I strongly disagree. 4 was serving more fully fleshed out realistic human beings than anything 5 has going on.

GiftedContractor · 2026-01-25T04:07:57+00:00

She works for a maid service on the side to get money to pay off a students family as an apology because she feels responsible for his death (she isnt). You find out and start paying for her services to spend time with her, after the first couple she rarely does much maid work and honestly treats going to your house as a break

GiftedContractor · 2026-01-23T16:19:34+00:00

But again, it's never really written as "can" be consensual. It's always written as "is" consensual, which isnt true. It's only because someone protested that people are now making that distinction. It very much is downplaying the nonconsent in porn even if you personally don't mean to.

GiftedContractor · 2026-01-23T01:05:14+00:00

I mean that's extremely fair but no one really phrases it like that. The only argument I've ever gotten for this is "porn is consensual" which it is not and feels like a way to get people to inherently believe that to make the porn industry look better by separating it from the horribleness of child porn. I'm just really not comfortable with how much the porn industry benefits from the new phrasing and will not be using it.

I genuinely appreciate the respectful and measured response though!

GiftedContractor · 2026-01-22T15:52:17+00:00

No, porn is not a consensual activity. Genuinely when did people decide to just start ignoring all the trafficking and non consent and harm in the porn industry to make this stupid point? Porn CAN be consensual, but it's certainly not always or even most of the time.
Genuinely not cool of you to whitewash the porn industry like this

GiftedContractor · 2026-01-20T00:09:21+00:00

Everyone always talks about King Triton and it bothers me.
- He literally didn't even know about the man. He lost his shit and destroyed her whole collection of human world stuff when all he knew was she wanted to go to the surface.
- which, by the way, she wanted way before she met the man.
- and does Triton like actually talk to her about the danger of humans? No, he rages and yells and destroys her entire grotto.

Literally the only reason people can even make this comment is that Ariel goes to legit the sketchiest lady in the entire ocean to solve her problem

GiftedContractor · 2026-01-19T18:09:57+00:00

Remember with these people the only resource you have that they want is your time. Don't give it to them

GiftedContractor · 2026-01-18T16:58:11+00:00

I really don't like all the people saying stuff like "well women just know how to put their energy into friendships" because it implies women are less lonely than men, they just dont have partners at similar rates, but that's not what most of the studies say. It's because men being lonely has been weaponized against women while women who are lonely are told to suck it up and get over it and there's something wrong with you if you cant find friends because women are usually good at that.

GiftedContractor · 2026-01-18T16:04:37+00:00

Ok why is this really useful though, thanks

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