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”

    • @TopShelfVanilla
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      1510 months 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        10 months ago

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

        • @TopShelfVanilla
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          1210 months 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.

            • @TopShelfVanilla
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              1010 months ago

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

                • @TopShelfVanilla
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                  410 months ago

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

                  • Narrrz
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                    110 months 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.

        • @[email protected]
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          610 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      1210 months ago

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

    • Ready! Player 31M
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      1010 months 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.

    • @ElderWendigo
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      510 months 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?

    • tetris11
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      110 months 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

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