alt text: a tweet by Zack Budryk (@BudrykZack) at 2:28 PM, 11/18/20. “The single most important thing a man can do to be an ally is give his woman friends permission to give dudes at the bar his number so when they call he can angrily say that’s not funny because she died 15 years ago that very night”

  • hottari
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    1 year ago

    Ridiculous.

    Also, are straight people misappropriating the term “ally” now?

    • TopShelfVanilla@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, that’s not what misappropriation means. No one club gets to own a word in as common of use as ally. People have allys. Nations have allys. Various groups allys. You need to settle down and stop trying to own something nobody can own.

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        1 year ago

        You do realize that no one is talking about the English use of the word here…

    • Ready! Player 31@lemmy.worldM
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      1 year ago

      I thought ally was an intersectional term? That is, it applies to support for any people with any characteristics that might be discriminated against.

      • hottari
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        1 year ago

        First time I’ve ever heard it used in that context was by gay communities.

    • ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Are you not aware that the word ally has been in use far longer than the contemporary connotation to which you refer has been around?

        • Anticorp
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          1 year ago

          Hmm, I have a magnifying glass around here somewhere.

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      1 year ago

      The purist, non-conformist, jaded subhuman terrorist
      From flesh to steel and blood to blade I fight to exist
      A rival of justice, extreme rush of hatred
      Survival in a twisted world where nothing is sacred

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