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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Does anyone else find "Giggle" to be a sexist and infantalising name for a woman's only app?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago

I feel that bad vibe from it, too.

It's a bit like when I see "fren" said in the internet wild: some people just say it without thinking about it and not even knowing where it started, but it's fucking sus to me.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

didn't their founder post about us on twitter?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes she got upset that we were calling her Eve Fartlow

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

lol

but seriously i'm still so sad that Sall managed to bite her tongue and didn't follow through on her threats to name us on a National TV morning show interview at the time

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (2 children)

for real Hexbear mentioned on aus TV would've been extremely funny

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Maybe we should just harass random rich people until one name drops us lmao

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

musk would be the easiest to crack

you know it, I know it, he knows it

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

:whats-the-worst-that-could-happen:

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not really a rich person, but it would be funny to do to Drew Pavlou, who's just the most pathetic Australian gremlin on the internet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

we basically already have, i'm sure a number of us have been QT'd and he seethes at Slammer weekly

Cubehead's use to mainstream media has already fizzled out completely, we need to aim higher

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

What happened to Pete Evans, does he tweet

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I am about to commence a protracted people's harassment campaign against Tim Gurner

e: actually nah, 5head will probably stay out of the media limelight after he got eviscerated last year. I'll have to pick another mouthy property developer

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Hearing hexbear said with an Australian TV anchor accent would send me

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Almost the funniest thing that's happened on this site

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

"laugh more darling"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It's a pretty fitting name for a social media app

Feel like the issue is giggling being seen as feminine and thus childish and infantalising is the attitude that's sexist rather than the actual connotation of giggling with women being sexist

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I don’t see giggling as feminine and thus childish, I see giggling as childish full stop, no connection to femininity, which is why I think it’s weird that they conflate women and giggling

Like I even feel weird reading your comment because it basically reads to me as: Feel like the issue is dinosaur chicken nuggets being seen as feminine and thus childish and infantalising is the attitude that's sexist rather than the actual connotation of dinosaur chicken nuggets with women being sexist.

Like nah the part I’m questioning is definitely the connection of dinosaur chicken nuggets to women.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Why is laughing childish. Maybe I don't fully understand what "giggling" is exactly

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The founder was working in hollywood and moved back to au after years of sexual discrimination and harrassment, only to project all those big feelings onto transpeople.

oh and the app determined feeeeemaleness with an ai that basically would only identify whities as women lol

would you believe it

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

Also i'd never thought to check linkedIn for anti trans people, but shockingly terfs are all professional as

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

did it even stay up? I thought it got taken down after a security breach or one of her cis twitter warrior friends got denied by their AI or something

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

yeah it got taken down i think but i got on it when it first launched, the posts were awful

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

pog

also "Tickle sued Giggle" is such a funny phrase

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

This is one of the choice bits of HB lore it really felt like the old r/cth days of harassment

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The Federal Court found that Roxanne Tickle had not been directly discriminated against but had been the victim of indirect discrimination

The "indirect" discrimination:

Justice Robert Bromwich noted that Giggle’s founder, Sall Grover, removed Tickle when she saw her photo and “considered her to be male”. Giggle had argued that the discrimination was permitted because, in its view, Tickle was of the male sex, and that was unchangeable.

aus-delenda-est

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Massive win for Roxanne. Reading the unadalteraded biaoqing-copium from the lawyer and unimelb phd is cherry on the cake

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

I’m sorry Giggle vs Tickle?