• Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.worldEnglish
        47·
        3 months ago

        The original phrase is pretty lame anyway. If you can’t do a thing, how can you be expected to teach it? I’d rather have a teacher that actually knows how to do the thing they’re trying to teach me.

        • Chronographs@lemmy.zipEnglish
          42·
          3 months ago

          The saying isn’t trying to convey that people who can’t do something are well suited to teach it, it’s disparaging teachers by saying if they were any good at what they teach they would be doing it instead of teaching it.

        • rockerface🇺🇦@lemmy.cafeEnglish
          12·
          3 months ago

          Probably better phrasing would be “Those who used to do, teach”. As in, teachers/coaches might be people who due to any number of circumstances can’t participate in doing the thing directly, but have experience in it.

  • thanksforallthefish@literature.cafeEnglish
    26·
    3 months ago

    Am I the only one who read that headline and thought “an art teacher told a student to dial down the feminism ? An art teacher ? Bullshit they did”

    Nice art but the backstory is utterly fake

    • gwl [he/him]English
      50·
      3 months ago

      You do know that some art teachers are pricks, right?

      • SCmSTREnglish
        13·
        3 months ago

        That’s impossible. Nuance is obviously DEI bullshit.

    • hitmyspot@aussie.zoneEnglish
      44·
      3 months ago

      It can also be that the art teacher is perfectly fine with feminism but feels it is overpowering other themes. Dialling it down can be a valid criticism. You catch more flies with honey and all that.

      The response with this artwork is excellent though. It’s a piece specifically about feminism, so no need to dial anything down. It makes a point and is beautiful to look at. I’m not a big fan of art that uses text to make a point but I think here it serves a useful purpose and it wouldn’t have the same effect without text.

    • Gerudo@lemmy.zipEnglish
      15·
      3 months ago

      Your be shocked what art teachers say, especially at the college level.

    • Wren@lemmy.todayEnglish
      9·
      3 months ago

      I knew a highschool art teacher who woulds give any female student more then 80% because “women already get everything they want.”

      Your lack of real world experience is showing.

    • SleeplessCityLights@programming.devEnglish
      17·
      3 months ago

      Look up the first year they used an anatomically correct crash test dummy for a women to make cars safer. The world is bad for men too, in a heirchial system only those at the top “win”, for lack of a better word. Most men are just tagging along pretending to be on the winner team. Even though they failed to make the team in tryouts and are fans just be part of everything.

  • Vegafjord oakframer@lemmy.mlEnglish
    12·
    3 months ago

    The thing is that if we challenge the machine, it gets noted immidiately as being aggressive. The reason for this is because language is normalizing machine thinking. What will push workers in line, what will cool the bloom of the masses, what will paint the mighty as delightful, what will alienate us from our peers and nature.

    By taking guardianship for our languages, challenging our everyday words, we normalize the meaningful, normalize humanity.

  • nile_istic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    3 months ago

    My dumb optimistic ass scrolling to the comments under this post thinking “maybe this time iT wOn’T bE sO bAd” lmao

  • FaceDeer@fedia.io
    5·
    3 months ago

    Well, exactly. Put it somewhere between those extremes. Dials like these are important for avoiding the hyper-polarization the world is afflicted with these days.

          • backalleycoyote@lemmy.todayEnglish
            4·
            3 months ago

            Yeah. I often wonder how many people who attempt to hijack a movement actually believe their singular view of what it should be should be the universal, how much of it is just ignorant ego and an attempt to remain relevant (looking at you JK), and how often it’s a deliberate attempt to both discredit one cause while tearing down another.

              • hakase@lemmy.zipEnglish
                3·
                3 months ago

                You could have listened to me, sympathized, and told me my misandrist experience is valid, but, then again, that’s a privilege reserved for women experiencing misogyny, isn’t it? Wouldn’t be very feminist of you to acknowledge just how widespread misandry is among feminists, eh?

        • SectoidLexiEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          Oh no! Hating men for beating, raping, and exploiting us! How awful!

          • hakase@lemmy.zipEnglish
            3·
            3 months ago

            I knew someone from one of the misandry instances would chime in to prove my point, so thanks! ^_^

            • SectoidLexiEnglish
              3·
              3 months ago

              You haven’t really proven anything. You say misandry is the problem with being a raging feminist. All I said was hating people who oppress you is not a bad thing. Also one of the “misandry instances”? So are all queer or women oriented instances just misandrist to you?

              • hakase@lemmy.zipEnglish
                2·
                3 months ago

                They’re not “just” misandrist; that is to say, they definitely have good reasons for existing outside of misandry, and I’m glad that they can provide that space for the people who need it. It’s also certainly not inherently misandrist to be queer or woman oriented.

                In the case of Lemmy, though, yes, all of the queer and women oriented instances are very clearly also misandrist. Openly and proudly so, in fact. Your comments here are an excellent, though comparatively mild, example of that.

  • tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    Why even show it to this guy? You need to change his mind? Instead of the million people out there who arent total douches?