baaaaaaaaaaah

joined 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

Honestly couldn't say. I know a fair number of people who still do it but I don't want to extrapolate to wider society.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

My understanding is that even in 996 they get way longer lunches than us.

I'd be really wary of trying to soften how bad 996 is. Everyone I've known who's worked it has described it as pretty hellish and the government really does need to work harder to stamp it out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

Why? You just assume TEMU uses child labour because... vibes?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

As of at least 2023, Chinese public attitudes towards the LGBTQI community continues to become increasingly favorable.

Literally all that "article" says is that China has its issues but is making progress in the right direction.

The important thing is that LGBTQ people in China can and do currently live free, safe, and open lives, and that the state is consistently moving towards providing queer people with further right and protections.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago

How is that a different perspective?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

big if true

true if big

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

It's status-quoism, usually both in-universe and in a meta sense in that monarchism is the Tolkienist default for fantasy stories.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Chengdu has a (positive) reputation of being China's most queer-friendly city, I guess she was drawing attention to that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

but they're represent at the same level as the royalty

how so?

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 day ago (2 children)

XHS is a platform dominated by young urban liberal women and isn't going to be particularly representative of Chinese society as a whole.

Like I don't think it's showing lies or anything, queer people can and do live safely and openly in China's cities, but the app might not show realities of rural conservatism, or the fact that homophobia is still very common within family units if not in broader society. Just something to be aware of.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'm on the fence, people like Tate are attached to the Incel political movement whether or not they fit the literal meaning of the word.

Like you're correct in that they're not literally celibates, what that's not really what "incel" means anymore in common context.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Report them and they'll get banned, but that doesn't really have anything to do with this thread.

view more: next ›