Comment on I never realized this

hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yeah… it can be interpreted that way. But even as a feminist myself, it is a dumb performative sort of protest. Paternal surnames are the least important fixtures of our patriarchal society, and, unless it was created wholecloth, there are no surnames that aren’t patriarchal historical lyrics, as the meme points out.

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  • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah, I wasn’t trying to call you a misogynist, just point out how the meme might look at first glance.

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    • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Wasn’t my post, just advocating for OP

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      • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        oh, right

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  • zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    If they think their actions are having much effect, sure, but otherwise I think you’re making assumptions and overreacting. Not everything is for show, people can do things like that just because they personally want to.

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    • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The context of the meme implied she was doing it because she’s a feminist and that taking her mother’s name was somehow an expression of that. Of course she can do that, but it isn’t achieving anything if that was the goal

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      • spujb@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        she is achieving and asserting herself, a right that is denied to her on most every other level.

        names are symbols. taking ownership of your name may not be material, but it is meaningful. if names were meaningless, trans people wouldn’t change their names, African-American communities wouldn’t change their names, et cetera. but they do, and feminists do, because achieving oneself, having domain over oneself even to the extent of identity, is meaningful especially against a history where that right is restricted against you in favor of the dominant class.

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      • zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Okay, and? Why is your immediate thought to mock that?

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• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That’s the point, but satirically. The fact that homelander is the second frame immediately means the take is bad.

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  • Railcar8095@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Sweet child… The amount of people who don’t see homelander is scary

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    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Good point! But I also never saw it. Just know it from the comics and the news.

      Also, the amount of people who don’t GET homeowner is scary…

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      • Railcar8095@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Yeah, those homeowners and their… *checks notes Homes!

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    • jdeath@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      on reddit, sure. on lemmy?

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      • MBM@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Lemmy is no better than Reddit in terms of sexism and media literacy

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  • MBM@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    OP’s comments don’t seem very satyrical :')

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    • spujb@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      this lol. i would not be in this comment section if OP wasn’t obviously taking the side of homelader here. if there was ever satire in the post it was lost as soon as OP got their hands on it.

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  • tomi000@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Not so sure. It may just as well be that OP thinks Homelander is the cool guy and the meme is meant unironically. Their comments here suggest that and their posts are mostly comprised of golf and borderline sexism / boomer jokes

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  • Faresh@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I don’t think that’s obvious to anyone who hasn’t watched that movie/series/whatever. At least it wasn’t obvious to me, because I don’t know that guy.

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  • frostysauce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Homelander is acting in character in this meme but Firecracker certainly is not.

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I think that’s the intention, but in an ironic/satirical fashion.

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• SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s one of those posts that IS funny, but makes OP’s viewpoint ambiguous. And if this was reddit and then incels come out of the woodwork to support the meme.

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