Kulturkampf

[Ethan]

Ree won't allow discussions so I had to turn to Reddit for a bit of a laugh


https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1mwbc07/german_radical_rightwinger_changes_gender_after/

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1mwbxi1/duolingo_apologises_after_app_calls_jk_rowling/

Europe is not quite healed yet, but it's still refreshing they're letting both sides downvoting each others instead of deleting everything like they do on US subs.  

Pretty crazy how transphobic people can be if they don‘t like a person and suddenly it‘s okay to deadname and misgender someone.

Shame on you - and I hope she rots in prison.

Refusing to call a homophobic Nazi a woman, is NOT being transphobic. Period

It literally is. You are refusing them their identity.

[HaughtyFrank]

Idk if you should call someone who "once posted a picture of a burning Pride flag and called transgender people “parasites," " a beautiful example of womanhood. A woman? Yes. But a pretty terrible one.

You don't have to respect this shit. I feel like we're in some dumb Star Trek episode where they meet an alien race that never heard of the concept of lying. Is there literally any other situation where we entertain someone's claim that is so obviously trolling?

But obviously I get why they're doing it, because if we call out the Nazi troll then we could call out other people too and one of the most important new tenets of the Transgender belief set is that when someone says they're a woman, they're a woman. No questions asked because if you ask questions the house of card falls apart.

By the way, the guy has also been suing media outlets that misgendered him, fortunately in this case the law sided with freedom of speech and the suit was dismissed.

[Alpacx]

[Potato]

Simon Jordan is a cock

[Nintex]

Russian propaganda sure is everywhere.

[Besticus Maximus]

Simon Jordan is a cock

absolute wanker, talks shite all day every day on the radio, hates the toon too the bellend

[benji]

Idk if you should call someone who "once posted a picture of a burning Pride flag and called transgender people “parasites," " a beautiful example of womanhood. A woman? Yes. But a pretty terrible one.

Wow, sounds like policing her womanhood, fash. What's next saying that just because someone's bald and has a three foot long beard they're a terrible example of womanhood? Literally genocide.

[benji]

This was in the replies of that thread:

[Besticus Maximus]

that benji post reminds me of eddington, which I also didn't understand

[Eric Cartman]

Idk if you should call someone who "once posted a picture of a burning Pride flag and called transgender people “parasites," " a beautiful example of womanhood. A woman? Yes. But a pretty terrible one.

[Alpacx]

[Potato]

Oh man, The Guardian is just a parody of itself at this stage...

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025/aug/22/labubus-bell-jar-tampons-performative-male-attracts-attention

Labubus, The Bell Jar and tampons: the ‘performative male’ attracts attention

There is a new man in town. You may have spotted him posing with an oat milk matcha pretending to read a copy of The Bell Jar. Or maybe you saw him seeming to listen to Lana Del Rey deep cuts but his earphones weren’t plugged in.

Maybe he makes a point of carrying tampons around with him for women in need. He’s called a “performative male” and is a relatively new archetype gai
ning traction – and inspiring mockery and critique – online.

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There is a menswear element, too. He’s likely to wear baggy trousers, perhaps made from Japanese selvedge denim, Vivienne Westwood chrome hearts necklaces and a tote bag, ideally emblazoned with feminist slogans. All of this posturing has one end goal: to look good in the eyes of (progressive) women.

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On TikTok, women are sharing sightings of people they deem to be performative males in public – reading highbrow literature, maybe even filming themselves as they do it, between sets at the gym.

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Eugene Healey, a brand strategy consultant, looks at the irony of the performance in performative man content. In a video he points to a quote from the philosopher Slavoj Žižek: “Even if we do not take things seriously, even if we keep an ironical distance, we are still doing them.” As Healey said: “The men making this content do have these haircuts, do listen to Clairo, they do rock a small top, big pant, tote bag combo and in an effort to get ahead of their own reputational issues they have to prove that they’re above it.”

But, he added, being conscious of the performance was not the same as transcending it: “Self-awareness doesn’t free us from performance, it just adds another layer to it.” The truly radical act, in his view, would be to drop “the performance of being above the performance”.

For others who truly like the things these performative males pretend to like, they find themselves in a tricky spot. As one social media user said: “Let me enjoy my matcha and tote bag. I’ve been doing this since 2020.”

[Nintex]

If that actually works and the women are that dumb it's way easier than 6 figures and abs.

[Uncle]

Oh man, The Guardian is just a parody of itself at this stage...

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025/aug/22/labubus-bell-jar-tampons-performative-male-attracts-attention

Or maybe you saw him seeming to listen to Lana Del Rey deep cuts but his earphones weren’t plugged in.

motherfucker those are called airpods

[Alpacx]

[benji]

Not surprised the ignorant hasabra agents yet again don't realize that this saying is one that's to be evaluated outside the context of history like from the river to the sea.

[benji]

[Potato]

Oh man, The Guardian is just a parody of itself at this stage...

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025/aug/22/labubus-bell-jar-tampons-performative-male-attracts-attention

Or maybe you saw him seeming to listen to Lana Del Rey deep cuts but his earphones weren’t plugged in.

motherfucker those are called airpods

Which labubu keychain do you have?

[Besticus Maximus]

You should absolutely read the bell jar if you want to understand women better tbf

[HardcoreRetro]

I hear the woman who wrote that book later became an oven inspector. 

She wasn't very good at her job.

[Potato]

You should absolutely read the bell jar if you want to understand women better tbf

[HaughtyFrank]

[benji]

He's fact checking the haters:

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

Don't read the rest of the page or check to make sure this is the same operation.

[benji]

[Uncle]

the new "why do all poly people look like that"

[HaughtyFrank]

He's fact checking the haters:

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

Don't read the rest of the page or check to make sure this is the same operation.

ugh, he deleted all of it. For posterity sake, it was Seth Harp, an investigative reporter, making bold claims about how the Navy seals who rescued Captain Philips mutilated the corpses of the pirates and how the pirates only attacked ships in Somali waters, both untrue. He got checked by community notes and continued to double down citing excerpts from completely different navy seal missions. The kind of stuff that really makes you question if this guy has any worth as a reporter when he misinterprets such simple situations

[HaughtyFrank]

Anyone been following that story of the Indian truck driver who killed three people by making a u-turn in the middle of a highway?

There's now a petition with almost 2 million signatures asking for lower sentence

[Uncle]

"2 million people"

I wonder which people? do they have anything in common?

I wonder what you see if you look at the names of the signers, or the featured videos?

https://www.change.org/p/free-petition-plea-for-fair-sentencing

[Uncle]

I wonder if some groups out there just didn't get the memo about how it's evil and racist to unequivocally support people of your own race over others, whether that's defending them from bad things they obviously did, or finding ways to exclusively hire them en masse once you get into a position to do so

[Besticus Maximus]

Some russian culture war bullshit kicking off in England atm, with some think tank astroturfing group putting st george flags up absolutely everywhere