True, for anyone like me who sees it as a detriment there are folk like your MIL whose life was improved by it, and I’m glad she finds it useful. And if/when it does shut down and she’s still into crafts I hope she finds a decentralised alternative that won’t succumb to the whim of shareholders.
I’d argue you were correct - it seems more accurate to me to say that ‘femmes are pressured to worry about their image’ than ‘women…’ as many women unlearn the lesson that they must portray a certain version of themselves, whereas femmes generally conform to it willingly, hence why they’re ‘femme’. Therefore, the women that are excluded by the term ‘femme’ are the same women that don’t fit the criteria of using Pinterest for their self image…
But this nuance with woman/female/femme is one of the more complex aspects of modern conversation. Last decade it was there/their/they’re. FTR: Am transwoman, am femme, felt included :)
No need to lynch them :/ – the queer community, being more empathic in general, use ‘femme’ to refer to anyone with stereotypically feminine traits, and this detaches the social stigma that all women must do x and all men mustn’t do x. But with your comment you just implied that all femmes are women, which isn’t true – SJW out of the way the real problem is what the commenter was referring to: the overwhelming and ridiculous pressure on the vast majority of females, whether they end up becoming women or not, from a very young age to conform to a certain image for others to enjoy. The porcelain look of Geishas is one such example, as are the facial prosthetics a lot of women in Korea and China utilise.
Meta scandals are almost as frequent as Palestinian genocides.
Yes,
and there have been replacements. WhatsApp, Twitter, BlueSky, even Mastodon should probably die. And that waste of goddamn space Pinterest, whose only purpose is to hold someone else’s image in a lower resolution and sometimes have any information or source. It’s just a dead end for research.
What’s the point of a smart monitor? It’s connected to a PC. The PC is smart.