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kzhe, in Why do you think so many people misuse asklemmy?

I heard someone compare Lemmy to the early days of reddit with less communities that each did more

Scotty_Trees, in What is a niche interest or hobby you'd personally like to see represented more on Lemmy
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Disc Golf

sag, in What free things online should everyone take advantage of?

Internet is beautiful communities and subreddit mirror on lemmy.

RagingRobot, in What is a niche interest or hobby you'd personally like to see represented more on Lemmy

Pinball

VelveteenUnderground, in What is a niche interest or hobby you'd personally like to see represented more on Lemmy

Not niche at all but women’s fashion and beauty

Blaze,
VelveteenUnderground,

I follow it but there’s like 2 posts a month in there lol…

Blaze,
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I guess people there have to promote it around

DirigibleProtein, in What is a niche interest or hobby you'd personally like to see represented more on Lemmy

Chain mail as both armour and a craft.

SelfHigh5, in Is there a word for the feeling of nostalgia for or missing of another lifetime one only lived in a dream?

Roy.

skybreaker, (edited ) in A time traveller comes back from 50 years in the future. You have 3 hours with them. What do you do?
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First, determine the state of the planet 50 years from now. This will largely dictate my next set of questions.

Is the earth on fire? Is there rampant suffering? What was the biggest catastrophe to mankind in that time?

Did humanity actually do something to help the earth? Once I learn this, I can invest in that thing to simultaneously push that technology forward and benefit from it myself.

Is any single person held responsible for bad things that have happened? Unlikely, but if so, I would work on assassinating that person.

ani, in Xenophobia is to racism what homophobia is to ... ?

Pretty sure the word you’re seeking is homophism

Lafari,

I couldn’t find any record of this, could you possibly provide some reference?

ani,

I actually think the word should be sexualism www.wordnik.com/words/sexualism

NeoNachtwaechter, in Why do you think so many people misuse asklemmy?

Because too many rules there, obviously.

aelwero, (edited ) in Xenophobia is to racism what homophobia is to ... ?

You’re absolutely correct that “(anything)phobic” is not an appropriate term for bigotry. Being phobic is as much a choice people make as being gay is, and of all the various groups, classes, etc. the gay community ought to understand.

The issue you’ll run into is common sense, and it’s lack of being common ;). Good luck trying to get people to understand, accept, acknowledge, etc.

MadBob, (edited ) in Which carbonated soft drink is the best?

Irn Bru or dandelion & burdock.

COASTER1921, (edited ) in What salary do you think would make you happy?

Anything over $100k is plenty to live, travel, and invest with if you don’t plan on having kids. There’s a point where it’s time and experiences that are more valuable than the money, so I’d prefer fewer working hours or more engaging work than simply just salary increases. I’m certainly happy to receive bonuses and raises, but as an engineer who has never made under $100k/yr the money doesn’t change anything about the way I live and enjoy life (note that I don’t have expensive tastes and carefully watch for lifestyle creep).

intensely_human,

There’s a point where it’s time and experiences that are more valuable than the money

I think what you mean is there’s a point where free time and experiences are more valuable than food and shelter.

Money isn’t balancing against these things. Money is the thing the brings you things of value. It’s not Money vs Y. It’s money spent on X vs money spent on Y.

Thcdenton, in Xenophobia is to racism what homophobia is to ... ?
tigeruppercut,

gaycism

fubo, (edited ) in Xenophobia is to racism what homophobia is to ... ?

fuckerism — prejudice against people on the basis of who they fuck (or would like to fuck).


In general, morphology doesn’t dictate meaning; the fact that “homophobia” and “arachnophobia” are similarly constructed words doesn’t mean they have to have analogous meanings.

Pornography is not played on a pornograph turntable.

Racism is not the same sort of thing as communism, cubism, masochism, autism, or Buddhism. The fact that those words all end in “-ism” doesn’t mean they are close analogies to one another. The words “sexism”, “ageism” and “ableism”, though, were coined as deliberate analogies to “racism”.

Lafari,

After researching your great word fuckerism (which I’m guessing you coined since I can’t easily find mentions of it online), I found this: Sexual orientation discrimination (also known as sexualism) is discrimination based on a person’s sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or pregnancy.. This isn’t entirely clear and could be interpreted as relating to “sexualising”, which means to make something sexual, and “homosexism” might be more specific to discrimination against homosexual people.

We also have a related concept of gender binarism (or in some uses, genderism (such as here, here) (though genderism can also apparently mean the opposite thing, to negatively describe gender-non-binarism(?), or what is referred to as “gender ideology” by people with “anti-gender” prejudice)) to describe specifically discrimination of “gender nonconfirming” (or non-binary-gendered) individuals (rather than transphobia or LGBTphobia for the same lexical confusion theoretically). Anti-genderism also makes sense as a term for this, I suppose. Anti-LGBTism ([Anti-LGBT rhetoric](Anti-LGBTism [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-LGBT_rhetoric)) could also work as a term for discrimination against LGBT people in general (horrific paper).

I also found a term, HOCD, which can mean excessive fear of becoming or being homosexual, though it can also literally means a form of OCD relating to homosexuality, but it’s the closest thing to “fear of homosexuality” (“FOHO”?) that I found, albeit a form that only applies to a fear around one’s own possible homosexuality rather than a fear of homosexuality in general regardless of one’s own sexuality.

fubo, (edited )

which I’m guessing you coined since I can’t easily find mentions of it online

Yes, that was an attempt at humor. My point was that we don’t need a word fitting a specific morphology in order to talk about a topic. And when we need to be so specific as to refer to “prejudice on the basis of sexual or romantic orientation” or “violent hostility towards people perceived as gender nonconformists” we can spell those things out.

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