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This app has several dog-whistles for TERF hate groups, that are designed to fall just below the threshold of deniability until considered as a whole by someone
by floatingatoll 5y ago
This app has several dog-whistles for TERF hate groups, that are designed to fall just below the threshold of deniability until considered as a whole by someone familiar with TERF hate speech markers:
- Dedication to the color "pink" representing women (classical pre-birth gender roles)
- Defining the gender "women" as exclusively people who were sexed female-only at birth (assumption-by-framing discrimination vs. transgender, intersex)
- Implying that gender is permanently affixed through bone structures to each human body at birth (classical definition that gender == sex)
- Declaring that only binary genders "male" and "female" exist (inflexible binary gender roles)
So I expect that this app will end up banned for promoting hate speech as a result — not because they're attempting to create a women-only space, but because they're attempting to create a social space where TERF hate speech is welcomed and encouraged.