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[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not really. Hollywood has propagated a lot of myths about corsets, partly because of incorrect application of them on Hollywood sets.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Call me crazy, but I feel morally justified in not watching a 15 minute video about women's underwear. But I will accept the idea that modern folks might not have understood the right way to wear corsets.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I feel morally justified in not watching a 15 minute video about women's underwear.

How does that work? What does it mean to use moral justification to avoid being informed on a topic.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

https://youtu.be/-CxX8nvLalE

Here's a video explaining my moral justification. I hope it enlightens you.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

i feel morally justified in not watching a video about your moral justifications. here are two modern philosophers who discuss and back up my moral justification. and it's shorter.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

..and yet, even though you were justified, you chose to reach beyond your grasp and illuminate your consciousness with in intricacies of the sagacity of the perturbation. Thus alienating the cognition of the profundity.

I rest my case!

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

illuminate your consciousness

see there's your problem, you think i'm arguing with a brain but when i shake the water out my ears i hear rattling

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Thus you prove my point for me!

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

I reiterate my previous exclamation and add a further redundancy