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a powerful ally (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by tasho to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

alt text: a tweet by Zack Budryk (@BudrykZack) at 2:28 PM, 11/18/20. "The single most important thing a man can do to be an ally is give his woman friends permission to give dudes at the bar his number so when they call he can angrily say that's not funny because she died 15 years ago that very night"

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[-] Jorgelino328@kbin.social 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here's how that would go:

"Hey, Alice, what's up, it's Mike from the party!"

"Alice? What do you mean alice, she di..."

[Thinking] "shit, that's a man's voice. Must be her boyfriend."
hangs up

[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I mean it still results in someone the girl didn't want to talk to not getting her number so I'd do it

[-] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

A powerful ally

Another dark Jedi.

[-] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago
[-] CryptidBestiary@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Cause we got Death Star

[-] freamon@endlesstalk.org 8 points 1 year ago

Not sure why there's so much confusion over the use of woman vs. female. To my mind it's

"Alice is a woman, she is a female friend", not "Alice is a female, she is a woman friend".

(But even if you want to say 'woman friend', you'd then have to 'women friends' for the plural)

[-] Gyrolemmy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

What the fuck did I just read?

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago
[-] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

They say it don't be like it is, but it do.

[-] Gyrolemmy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I get it now but it should have said "when they call and mention her name".

The reason is that if any man were to call a number received by a female they were interested in and hear a mans voice they would hang up immediately unless they didn't respect themselves.

[-] weariedfae@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[-] hottari@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Ridiculous.

Also, are straight people misappropriating the term "ally" now?

[-] TopShelfVanilla@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's not what misappropriation means. No one club gets to own a word in as common of use as ally. People have allys. Nations have allys. Various groups allys. You need to settle down and stop trying to own something nobody can own.

[-] hottari@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You do realize that no one is talking about the English use of the word here...

[-] TopShelfVanilla@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

Again, I don't care what team/community/orientation/gender/race or even species you align with, you don't get to own the word. That's not how things work in any language.

[-] hottari@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago
[-] TopShelfVanilla@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

Yes you are. You've picked a really stupid hill to die on here.

[-] Narrrz@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

but hurry up and die already, would you?

[-] TopShelfVanilla@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Needed to get your alt downvoted some? Jesus, man, go back to reddit till you grow up a little.

[-] Narrrz@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

what? we were talking about him dying on a hill. if he's going to do so, it would be nice if he'd hurry up with it.

[-] dragonflyteaparty@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Then why are you acting like one group of people is the only ones who get to use the term "ally"?

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, the super edgy fake leftist. It's been a while since I've seen one in the wild.

[-] ReadyUser31@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I thought ally was an intersectional term? That is, it applies to support for any people with any characteristics that might be discriminated against.

[-] Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

Geopolitics stole it, too!

[-] hottari@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago
[-] Narrrz@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

those damn fake allies, secretly helping the nazis

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago
[-] hottari@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago
[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Hmm, I have a magnifying glass around here somewhere.

[-] ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Are you not aware that the word ally has been in use far longer than the contemporary connotation to which you refer has been around?

[-] tasho 3 points 1 year ago

hahahahaha! thanks for the laugh.

[-] tetris11@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

The purist, non-conformist, jaded subhuman terrorist
From flesh to steel and blood to blade I fight to exist
A rival of justice, extreme rush of hatred
Survival in a twisted world where nothing is sacred

Fear Factory - Edgecrusher

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