I never went as far as to defend Gwyneth Paltrow, but after her Hot Ones appearance I created a post (which I will link in the comments) where I suggested that she’s done no more harm than male grifters and that the dislike of her as a person was primarily due to misogyny. That’s before I learned about her promotion of these unproven “vampire facials”. Now an unlicensed clinic performing this procedure has given at least three women HIV. You guys were right and I was wrong.
Letstakealook ( @Letstakealook@lemm.ee ) 24•2 months agoYour default assumption is that any criticism of a woman must be misogyny? Even when that woman’s actions primarily impact women’s health? Interesting.
ProgrammingSocks ( @ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social ) 1•2 months agoThis line of reasoning doesn’t make sense. Haters being worse to women than men specifically because of gender has nothing to do with what that person actually does.
ImADifferentBird ( @ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English16•2 months agowhere I suggested that she’s done no more harm than male grifters and that the dislike of her as a person was primarily due to misogyny.
I mean, I don’t know about you, but I dislike most, if not all, grifters as people, regardless of their gender. They are shitty people.
bionicjoey ( @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ) 16•2 months agoI don’t disagree, but this kind of post isn’t really in the spirit of TIL
I understand. I looked around for a “mea culpa” type of community but I couldn’t really find one. Mainly wanted to get it on the record that I know what a boob I’ve been. Do you have a suggestion as to a better place to post?
bionicjoey ( @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ) 6•2 months agoJust reply to the people you were talking to and apologize. Maybe edit any comments where you said something incorrect and put the mea culpa there. I often do that if I get something wrong.
Lot of commenters in the original post. Guess I was lazy. Also half of them probably blocked me.
It’d be slick if editing a post notified commenters on that post, though I suppose it could be abused.
teawrecks ( @teawrecks@sopuli.xyz ) 4•2 months agoIs this like, a penance thing? Or is this the first time you’ve found out you were wrong about something? Because I guarantee you, no one learned about this and thought, “man I bet that sgibson5150 person really feels like a boob right now!”
You’ll worry less about what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do.
You’ll find out you were wrong again. If you’re doing it right, it’ll be a daily occurrence. If you learned you caused harm in the past, it’s probably good to go back and try to make reparations. Otherwise, just be humbled and move on.
MrFunnyMoustache ( @MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml ) 12•2 months agoI wasn’t aware of her existence or that of the vampire facials, but this is some Carmilla stuff. Next they will tell you they need virgin blood.
Agreed. A bit skeevy on the face of it. I’ve often wondered if something like that is why Dick Cheney is still alive. “Bring in the next snackrifice!” Ugh.
wizardbeard ( @wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English4•2 months agoIn the show “Silicon Valley”, a satire of it’s namesake, there’s a billionaire tech ceo (like Google level) who gets weekly blood transfusions from a college student in great health.
If you’d kindly adjust your tinfoil hat, there’s a lot of conspiracy theories out there that blood transfusions from healthy young people are a regular “health service” used by the elite.
Gamma ( @GammaGames@beehaw.org ) English9•2 months agoNo need for any tinfoil, there are crazy billionaires openly doing it!
Tech tycoon who spends $2 million per year to retain youth uses teen son as ‘blood boy’
Here’s a link to the Hot Ones post as seen from my instance.