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- unions@lemmy.ml
- iwwunion@lemmy.ml
Why the bunny girl outfit. Bunny girls are liars?
For-profit media sells what people will buy. Hollywood movies tend to put women in revealing outfits (men too really). A guy wearing a drab, comfortable t-shirt draws much less attention. Though Don’t Look Up was a fantastic exception:-). Still, all else being equal, the barriers are higher for the right booth than the left bc the inherent interest factor is lesser.
Ooh, nice take. Still don’t get why the bunny girl specifically. I guess for artistic style.
Meh, it’s a Japanese thing, and therefore Japanophiles enjoy using that iconic imagry around the world. Japan only more recently started leaving behind their extremely heavy prudishness, similar to the 1960s hippy movement in most Western nations, and so this is their version of a “scantily-clad female”, dressed up specifically with the intent of causing excitement. I doubt many people ever physically wore such an outfit, although the way it looks here makes it look more like something you’d see in a Vegas-style casino (irl image, mostly SFW but still out of sensitivity I am merely linking rather than auto-displaying it here), which is an exact analogy to the more anime & video-game style.
Also btw there is a male version - e.g. the chip & dale style. Example irl image. Notice how both the above for woman and this here uses fishnets, either as tights or in lieu of a shirt.
The point though is that they are “dressed to impress”, and like not in a business suit kinda way, but rather to titillate and excite the audience, even if just shy of the NSFW line. Joss Whedon’s (and so many others) “lens flares” in movies or is a non-person example - something that adds little to nothing in the way of substance, and in fact somewhat even if only slightly distracts from such - and instead is purely for style. Another example would be those wing / wind-spoilery things on cars, which if you are doing city driving you will literally never get any functional benefit from whatsoever, yet they help them sell b/c it pushes an “image” to the potential purchaser.
TLDR: one way to think about it is that comforting lies are style over substance, while unpleasant truths are substance over style. Though really that’s kind of a distracting dimension, since no matter how you package the latter people don’t tend to enjoy it, and vice versa for the former… - but still, those thoughts do often travel together.
If that is a girl, I mean
Wait, why the downvotes? The picture isn’t exactly high-res.
Because even if it’s low res it’s enough to clearly see that she has tits
Lemmy has an enormous down-vote problem, far worse even than Reddit somehow imho. Somehow the old chat forum way of “this response is relevant to the subject and adds to the conversation”, as yours did, is mostly ignored in favor of “I enjoy seeing this, so I am going to click the LIKE button”. (Implicitly, the hidden third option, of simply leaving it be, is likewise passed over, in favor of what I can only presume is due to lonely people desperately seeking to have some kind of interaction with the world.)
For me personally, I try go by the adage “don’t be a jerk”, but there are MANY people who apparently disagree with that:-D. One enormously crucial component of that is that the apparent anonymity of downvotes is an inherently unequal one - without being an administrator of an instance, I cannot easily find out who downvoted something, so they can make those kinds of hidden comments about me (or in this case you) that I can do nothing to block (short of moving to an instance that does not show downvotes of any kind whatsoever). This is why, whenever I do want to downvote someone, I always take the time to explain it in a comment, or upvote an existing explanation that does the same, so that the recipient is made aware of why people are saying that it is less relevant or should not exist. (major exception: unless it is an obvious troll - they already know, they simply don’t care, and those I most often don’t even bother to downvote, and rather simply block and move on with living my best life, free from that noise)
This downvoting issue has several problems, one being that different people like different things (e.g., gosh if you can believe it, even non-Linux operating systems, gasp!:-P), and how we NEED diversity of cultures (and ages, genders, walks of life, etc.), but yet downvoting creates echo chambers and discourages participation. I dare say that the top criticism of the Fediverse is the overall lack of content, and therefore the downvoting issue is the top reason why more people do not share content, and therefore our stupidity is the top reason why if it dies, this is what will be that killed it. i.e., if I am going to be spit upon, perhaps I will show up the place that did that less frequently? Other people can do whatever they choose… yet so too can I.
So my advice is: (1) read the cargo cult of the ennui engine, then (2) feel pity for all the people who can only accept precise clones of themselves and cannot enjoy or even simply leave alone someone else saying something that they do not 100% agree with, but feel compelled to respond, almost like it is themselves that they are arguing with inside their own heads rather than you.
TLDR: Karens are going to Karen, and until alternatives to Lemmy are developed (Sublinks and Piefed are both coming!!), there’s nothing anyone seems willing do about it.
You wrote a novel for a comment when the reality is that their comment was just really dumb.
I mean… femboys wearing specifically bunny outfits kinda is a thing…
Except femboys don’t have tits. And the lady in picture pretty clearly has them.
If you’re going to keep talking can you at least stop using fallacious arguments?
Temporarily embarrassed millionaire syndrome. “I can’t vote against what the rich people want, because what if I become rich some day?” Completely missing that they, in the course of their entire lives, will not make as much as what most of the rich assholes of the world make in a day/hour/minute/second.
EAT THE RICH.
You forgot the part where rich make sure that poor remain poor.
Basic services should all be free to any human.
No. Time to privatize water, you commie!!! /s
Water were already privated in parts of the world. The s tag doesn’t work here.
Maybe oxygen, for now.
Yeah, the spirit of your comment i agree with, but not the letter.
Nothing should be completely free, because nothing is free. Water needs processing, electricity needs a grid, sewage needs treatment, etc.
Basic things should be affordable for all: housing, water, electricity, internet, food etc.
But “free” creates incentives to be careless with resources. Which is counterproductive to making sure they are available for all at affordable prices.
Hard to believe people work sixty hours. Got a decent living over here in Europe and am currently reducing from 40 to 35, just because.
When I was a security guard I used to work 48 hours a week. Never known anyone works 60 hours a week.
You don’t know many factory workers then. Even unionized factories have mandatory overtime.
Maybe you forgot to type ‘/s’?
No, why would you work 60 hours a week?
Because rent is going up 30% a year while pay is going up 3%.
Because you paid out the wazoo for it
Lol
It seems you are the only one who is laughing about that :)
Everyone doesn’t live in 1st world countries.
I’m in one of those places where people barely make a living even after pretty much working to death. I am still a student and I have been lucky enough to be born into a more fortunate family. I don’t have firsthand experience, so I will give an example.
A good example is my teachers. They have a 6 to 5 job 6 days of the week, and their monthy salary is equivalent to 865USD.
The fact that I can use the internet and tech as much as I want is a blessing
the amount of equivalent USD is mostly meaningless in regular life. What matters is what you can buy in that place for how much they make. And also what you have to buy and what goes besides your paycheck (socialised healthcare in scandinavia vs higher wages in usa for example).
For example within Europe: yes, wages are way lower in eastern EU countries than in some western EU countries, but so is the price of coffee, the rent etc. That only becomes tangible when you travel.
It’s an underdeveloped country, everything is imported so prices are much higher than what you’d expect. The government is corrupt, there is no free public healthcare or education.
You simply can not sustain a family without having one of your family members in a foreign country as the breadwinner. If you can’t go abroad, it’s grueling poverty for you, good luck caring for your sick parents or sending your kids to school. Even our nation’s leaders send their children abroad for studies/job.
Yeah, the USD equivalent doesn’t mean much if your nation actually has something to offer in exchange for your low wages, but that is definetly not the case everywhere.
That’s why “Why would anyone ever work over 60 hours?” first seemed like a sarcastic comment to me.
Everywhere isn’t europe or america guys
Without (real or artificial) scarcity profits would go down, and if profits
go downstop growing the-best-possible-system© just collapses.Because old people aren’t looking at tweets like this.
It’s just our generation that has this as a standard view, and now we’re reaching the point where our generation will take over.
And there’s going to be some changes, let me tell you.
It’s not a generational thing. It’s an economic class thing.
Rad name btw!
The future is already here. It’s just unevenly distributed.- William Gibson
Many great reasons raised to explain why the current system persists so its clear to me that there isn’t just a single roadblock. One reason, in my mind, is the challenge of reaching consensus. Even in small groups this can be problematic and more so for an entire population. It frustrates me no end that often small disagreements in the details of an idea is enough to prevent any positive change, even though at a macro scale the idea is good and universally supported.
Because capitalism demands infinite growth, forever, which means even when we’re post-scarcity we need to keep working forever to continue growing beyond what is necessary.
There ought to have been a more definitive goal to work towards…
at this point in time… All hunger, all deprivation, all poverty
Is because SOMEONE wants it so. Not because circumstances make it so
1984
Clearly it’s because of all those immigrants stealing your share of the crumbs.
Propaganda
Because every man-hour freed by automation is a man-hour of opportunity to exploit and profit elsewhere.
Do you know how long it takes for crops to grow?
What are you implying with that comment?
That long work days are still necessary, technology isnt fully there to automate everything
But the farmer is not eating all the crops them self. And it doesn’t have to be one farmer doing all the work.