Lizzo accused of sexual harassment and fat-shaming (www.bbc.com)

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Three former dancers allege the singer contributed to creating a hostile work environment.

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[-] livus@kbin.social 40 points 1 year ago

I'm keeping an open mind on this one because some of these allegations is a bit constructive/interpretive:

Ms Davis alleges the two questioned whether she was "struggling with something as she seemed less committed to her role on the dance cast", the case details.

"In professional dance, a dancer's weight gain is often seen as that dancer getting lazy or worse off as a performer. Lizzo's and Ms. Scott's questions about Ms. Davis's commitment to the tour were thinly veiled concerns about Ms Davis's weight gain," the documents allege.

So what actually happened is she was asked if something was wrong because they thought she was less committed.

Her argument here is that reading between the lines they really meant "you are too fat".

But what if reading between the lines they actually meant "you keep phoning it in during rehearsals"?

[-] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I'm keeping an open mind

HOW DARE YOU, BIGOT!

[-] Lionir@beehaw.org 22 points 1 year ago

This isn't the first time we see you posting in bad faith. You were previously temporarily banned as well. This has been escalated to a perma ban. Good bye.

[-] suburBeebiTcH@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Hey, I want to start out saying that I thank you and deeply respect you for your work on this platform. I have taken several minutes to explore this persons account on lemmy.ml and they replied that this response was supposed to be sarcastic. That was also my initial interpretation as this reply would not make very much sense literally as bigoted/bad faith people don't generally (in my limited experience, admins/mods have much more) call open minded people bigoted in direct response to others directly saying they are "keeping an open mind". I did not go back far enough in their history or didn't notice what could have caused the temp ban before. I find the person argumentative sure, but not acting in bad faith per-say nor are their stated views in many comments indicative of this. Could you, if you have the time/energy reconsider this ban and/or reply with evidence of this past bad faith that resulted in temp-ban? Thank you

[-] Lionir@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Looking at the modlog:

21 days ago in response to a question thread:

Who cares? source

Gaywallet called it out:

Please help me to understand how this can be interpreted as anything but rude and dismissive source

They never responded. No action was taken.

11 days ago :

Right. Us stupid white people didn’t realize bad words existed! source

I called this out:

Your comment is in bad faith. Take a step back to consider how you interact with people. source

They responded with:

Your comment is racist and makes no fucking sense. Take a moment to construct an actual argument instead of just throwing around some bullshit terminology you read on the Internet. Or don't reply to me again

Source: modlog (because it was deleted)

This resulted in a 4 day site-wide ban.

Today, well, whatever this is - I see it as rage bait and just generally not a good way to start a conversation. It's also worth mentioning that the username does not inspire good faith to begin with but that's fairly minor. Do you still think that this should be reconsidered?

[-] suburBeebiTcH@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

No, thank you. I very much appreciate this transparency and expertise. I just wasn't sure, based on what I had seen in some 10 minutes of skimming. Thanks again for your noble volunteering!