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Bullshit. He ate gunk from his feet on stage. I knew that about him before I knew about his views on sexuality. There's stuff you can't change and you shouldn't ever be judged for (skin colour, scar tissue, that weird smile that shows way too much gum), then there's stuff you might be somewhat responsible for but still shouldn't be judged for because the circumstances might be just so that you can't do much about it (weight, biting nails, that odd tooth that you didn't clean properly when you were 11 and that's now this odd colour) and then there's stuff that's just gross, completely under your control, something you should absolutely be told to not ever fucking do and be ridiculed for if you still just did it anyway (like being live on stage in front of a camera and removing your socks to eat gunk off your feet).
Wasn't aware he ate from his feet specifically onstage.
Still not going to agree with you, sorry, as someone who does not agree with ridiculing people unless it's necessary. Of course, I'm not a perfect human being, I have probably unfairly ridiculed people, especially when angry and when pretty sure my target is someone that nobody will argue against me ridiculing. I'm just… as a person who desperately tried to avoid being "the weirdo" and still might fail at avoiding that nowadays? I'm pretty anti-"what a weirdo lmao," and want people left the fuck alone about their weird behaviors unless they are hurting people with the weird behavior; or they literally will not stop their actual harmful behaviors and ridiculing might have a slight chance to get through or erode the power they have to perform those bad behaviors consequence-free.
I can also admit that people probably do need some level of social judgment to not gross out the people around you, so the eating that onstage probably wasn't a great move (do not know what happened in context, I'm not very up to date on the whole drama of Richard Stallman). Now I know it was onstage and not some leaked information about his personal life, this does at least make sense as something people would make fun of, especially given I think most people, even the socially inept, would figure out not to do this by 6th grade.
Still probably going to dig in my heels on my belief that in this particular discussion bringing this up after "this guy has dangerous/regressive beliefs" feels a lot more like "and look, he's weird too!!! what a loser LMAO" gossip and less like a relevant thing we should know about him that can contribute to a useful informative discussion, though. Sorry.
I mean, the video is linked above? It's also kind of anticlimactic as he just listens to the guy giving a talk, silently picking his foot, then eating whatever he got from it.
Also... It's nice to be not too judgemental. Seriously, keep that.
I'll freely admit that you know the "did not read the article and still commented" folks?
I'm a "didn't watch the video" person and had to be told by other people what happened.
Also, at least one of them someone linked me of the foot thing was age restricted so I Xed out and took them at their word.