I really fucking hate articles and shit that are like, "Democrats, urban dwellers, and gays, I live in a red state, let me tell you what it's like for the folks out here. Let me explain to you how they feel, and how they came to their opinions."

Motherfucker, those people represent the dominant culture. They're the narrow minority every media company and politician caters to. We are all already all-too aware of what they think and feel and we're tired of them being centered.

**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 17, 2019, 15:22

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**Mads "Out of Service" Viande** @byttyrs@radical.town · Dec 17, 2019, 15:22

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Mads "Out of Service" Viande @byttyrs@radical.town

so, likewise, an adult trans woman gas been taught all her life how a woman is to act. her cishet brother learned this as well, or else he could not be correctly sexist to his partners and to the other women in his life.

and if can be 'clocked' by others and is either not perfectly-accustomed to a feminine role, or is merely gender non-conforming (remember how it's cool when women are GNC? trans women too! no bullshit!), is NOT treated by her peers as a man. Instead, she is subject to female socialization in the most brutal form, and inflected by other axes of oppression she experiences — ableism, saneism, misogynoir, lesbophobia — and her experience of the world gets *less* harsh the harder she is to 'clock' and the more she acts 'like a woman'.

to act like this process is overridden by her childhood, in which it is asserted without evidence that she must have been treated 'like a boy,' is to abdicate one's responsibility to be intelllectually honest and stand with the oppressed

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**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 17, 2019, 10:44

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 17, 2019, 10:44

Dec 17, 2019, 10:44

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Ben Gibbard always and forever has big "23 years old going through a divorce guy" energy

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 17, 2019, 10:26

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 17, 2019, 10:26

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The article goes on to point out Snoopy's ambiguity in particular, but I do not feel it comes to a satisfactory conclusion.

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**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 17, 2019, 10:20

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 17, 2019, 10:20

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...in fantasizing about living as a human, he displays human-level intelligence and emotions.

Also, many comic strips make it unclear how much of Snoopy's human-like behavior is in his mind. Sometimes the other characters are aware of his fantasies, or, especially, watch him go about his business on two legs.

Yet he still lives in a dog house in Charlie Brown's yard.

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**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 17, 2019, 10:16

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 17, 2019, 10:16

Dec 17, 2019, 10:16

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

From Wikipedia: "A funny animal is an anthropomorphic animal character who lives like a human. They are typically bipedal, wear clothes, live in houses, drive and ride vehicles, and have jobs or may even be recognized citizens of countries, which distinguish them from other animal characters who may nonetheless display anthropomorphic characteristics such as speaking or showing facial expressions."

Snoopy is often portrayed doing these things, but they are all fantasies. However...

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**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 17, 2019, 10:09

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 17, 2019, 10:09

Dec 17, 2019, 10:09

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Is Snoopy a funny animal character?

Points for:
1. Funny
2. Animal
3. Often bipedal
4. Can communicate to the audience

Against:
1. Not that funny in later comic strips
2. Very aberrant lifestyle, somewhere between beast and man
3. Bipedalism may simply be a projection of his rich fantasy life
4. Can't talk, merely telepathic

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 17, 2019, 10:01

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 17, 2019, 10:01

Dec 17, 2019, 10:01

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

Back in the day, if you wanted furry content, you were limited to literally every cartoon available on television, and a large proportion of the comic books and comic strips as well as the majority of products marketed toward children.