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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 54 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Isn't this meme the wrong way round?

Joseph Gordon Levitt's character is the charlatan in the film

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 49 points 1 day ago

Can't be. Man good, woman bad.

[–] blinfabian@feddit.nl 20 points 1 day ago

idk the characters nor the movie. i just used a common template :3

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 40 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I'm probably just not cultivated enough in the refined world of internet memes, but this comes across as "girls are noobs hurr durr"

[–] blinfabian@feddit.nl 39 points 1 day ago (2 children)

idk, its just a meme template to me...

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You did nothing wrong, people are just trying hard to find sexism where there is none. That template has always been 2 people thinking they have the same opinion but actually being very different. Could reverse those two and suddenly there would be no issues for them

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 hours ago

It was always the opposite in this template tho, with the girl being well versed in something and the guy being a newbie or whatever

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

seems to support their criticism

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

It's just a meme template, nothing deep. It's a template used to say "we are similiar yet not the same" or "we look the same but we are the opposite" or things like that

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I'd argue that if your first thought was that, after looking at the template then...yeah something is clearly wrong with you

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 16 points 1 day ago (19 children)

Except society often already relegates the opinion of women as wrong by default. The template leans into that. I'd argue that them questioning the meme template is a good thing because they're aware of biases pushed by society.

Just because it's a meme template doesn't mean it's not deep

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[–] xartle@reddthat.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I like this version more that the privacy one. I vote we restart the thread with it.

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 11 points 1 day ago

That's because it does. The template pretty much always pushes the man is right the woman is wrong which plays into several biases pushes by society.

[–] Redacted@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Comes across as the girl enjoys porn to me.

[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 3 points 1 day ago

It would work just as well if the icons were flipped. Would that come across better?

I can see the implicit sexism of implying the girl is the less informed. But I've also got a problem with gate keeping in the community. Someone might say they are focusing on privacy and use incognito chrome, but they're ideologically still on your "team"....they're just a bit behind in their journey and need to find out more about working their way up to making the real meaningful changes. Help em out.

[–] halvar@lemy.lol 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] blinfabian@feddit.nl 6 points 1 day ago

thanks clippy :3

[–] Vespair@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So wait, not only did you add your additional privacy picks, you also added non-sequiturs for the topic like ChatGPT to the female character to make her appear not just under-informed but outright ignorant? Okay I guess

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 points 1 day ago

Lock yourself in a cave with no access to the internet for the ultimate privacy.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

What's wrong with nord? Is it specifically bad or just not as good as other options?

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Even privacy advocates tend to rate Nord relatively highly. Maybe it’s just, like, the Yankees of VPN services and they advertise hard, so people knee-jerk hate them? (But I don’t know, someone can correct me if I’m wrong.)

I’m disappointed in them dropping Meshnet, that was an awesome free perk.

[–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

It's proprietary, and therefore most of us don't trust it.

[–] blinfabian@feddit.nl 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

its just mainstream. thats why its in the meme. idk if its actually bad tho

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago

Makes sense, I was just curious as I don't know a whole lot about them.

[–] MotoAsh@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's bad because it's bloated trash whos main purpose is to upsell their other services.

It doesn't even work right after you hop a few servers.

[–] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

On the right side you forgot the apple.

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 4 points 17 hours ago

"I'm very privacy focused which is why I use Apple products"

Is such an annoying and real thing

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] blinfabian@feddit.nl 6 points 1 day ago

thanks for the 1st comment on here thats not just complaining about the meme template :D

[–] urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 10 hours ago

Male = tech

Female = dumb uninformed prude

Right?

[–] TheJnx@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago
[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

would have been better to use the breaking bad "Jesse Pinkman and Jane" template, no?

[–] ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What's the light switch thing above Proton Mail?

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago
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