They definitely do similar things though. I was out at dinner with some of my Japanese coworkers and one of them was having steak (suteeki in Japanese). I asked him if it was suteki (“great, wonderful, attractive”) and they all groaned and said I was telling “oyaji gyagu” (old man/dad jokes).

This is the correct answer. There’s even a slight plastic indentation to let the user know that both of the buttons in question are “start” buttons.

I think the design is fine.

There isn’t “feminist dogma”

I think we’re done here.

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Lots of good comments here pointing out problems with feminism, but one that I think hasn’t been mentioned enough in this thread that’s also directly relevant to the OP is the harmful idea that “if you believe in gender equality, then you’re a feminist by definition”.

While the term “feminist” does signify a person who, at least ostensibly, is in favor of equal rights among genders, using that term also, necessarily, implies belief in the core dogma that is inseparable from the term itself (patriarchy theory, etc.). This creates a false dichotomy in which people feel that in order to support equal rights they must also buy into feminist dogma, and that’s not at all the case.

Luckily, though, feminism doesn’t have a monopoly on gender equality, and it’s important to let people know that fact, both because of how incredibly misleading “feminism just means gender equality” is and because there are more useful, more egalitarian frameworks through which to view the push for equality.

it just signifies you are in favor of equal rights among genders

It doesn’t “just signify that” though, as much as feminists act like it does. The term “feminist” does signify a person who, at least ostensibly, is in favor of equal rights among genders, but using that term also, necessarily, implies belief in the harmful dogma that is inseparable from the term itself (patriarchy theory, etc.). This creates a false dichotomy that makes people feel that in order to support equal rights they must also buy into feminist dogma, and that’s not at all the case.

Luckily, though, feminism doesn’t have a monopoly on gender equality, and it’s important to let people know that fact, both because of how incredibly misleading “feminism just means gender equality” is and because there are plenty of other more useful, more egalitarian frameworks through which to view the push for equality.

I tried out a couple of other Reddit replacements a few years ago before Lemmy took off, and I really enjoyed the few that had separate votes for “funny” and “insightful/contributes to discussion/whatev”.

Yeah it made voting a bit clunkier, but it did a good job of differentiating between two very different ways of positively contributing to a discussion.