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submitted 1 day ago by TRAHR@sh.itjust.works to c/world@quokk.au

The Women’s Institute will no longer accept transgender women as members from April following the UK supreme court ruling on the legal definition of a woman, the Guardian can reveal.

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[-] Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world 12 points 23 hours ago

The why the fuck do they call it women's institute?

[-] wooffersyt@lemmings.world 4 points 23 hours ago
[-] Sunshine@piefed.ca 26 points 1 day ago

What a bunch of spineless cowards.

[-] natecox@programming.dev 27 points 1 day ago

Ugh, this creates a dilemma: upvote or not? I’m never sure what to do here.

I hate the content so I want to downvote, but I like the awareness so I want to upvote.

[-] tedd_deireadh@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

I think upvotes are for the quality of the content in the post and comments are for sharing your opinion.

So, upvote when the post fits the purpose of the community, spurs discussion, and follows the rules.

Comment to tell people what you think about the content of the post.

If we downvoted every time there was horrible news we didn't agree with communities like news and politics would never receive a single upvote.

[-] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think you're spot on yeah.

Content aggregators (where Digg, Reddit, and to a certain degree StumbleUpon were the obvious choices) generally use the upvote/downvote tooling to promote content that users think are worthy to be shared or should be seen more; same with comments if they add constructively to the discussion regardless of viewpoint.

The problem with using upvote and downvote style tools to express like and dislike means that you just end up with an echo chamber of "goodthink" and a community that circlejerks itself, where dissenting or controversial but possibly accurate comments and posts never see the light of day.

[-] Jaybird@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Truly furthering the plight of women everywhere. I say, well done!

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