pride coloured chameleons, the rainbow one saying: "someone has a gender you don't understand? that's how stuff works sometimes. i dont understand french but the language still exists"
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[+] 37 points 7 months ago* (14 children)
  • [–] 29 points 7 months ago

    Reminds me of a quote from Nevada by Imogen Binnie:

    "Yes, gender is a social construct, but so are traffic lights, and if you ignore those, you get run over by a car. Which is also a social construct."

    (Recited from memory, probably not word-for-word accurate.)

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago

    To some extent, I agree. However, making up new words and terms can be the beginning of the "social" part of the social construct. For instance, part of why I'm so attached to "bisexual" as a label rather than terms like pansexual is that learning of bisexuality was the first time I realised that it was possible to be attracted to more than one gender; previously, I had thought that because I had experienced attraction to boys, that I must be straight. This led me to not even notice the attraction I felt towards other girls until I learned that bisexuality was a thing

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    How does this not have any downvotes except mine

    this is blahaj zone how did transphobia (which the mods then removed) end up with 38 upvotes and 0 downvotes

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    lbz doesn't do downvotes, which means communities hosted on lbz don't do downvotes, and any downvotes received are ignored, without federating them out.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    bad idea

    downvotes can show that people see something wrong with a comment and will make less people see it

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Too many people see trans people making any comment at all as something that needs to be downvoted.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Transphobes are not welcome on Lemmy. Those who hate me or my LGBTQ+ homies for not conforming with their pointless and archaic expectations should fuck off. We have freedom. Even if I were to conform with their expectations I'd still want freedom and rights for all. These hateful morons should be banned from this network. Paradox of tolerance.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Expressing transphobia is not welcome on lemmy. You only have to look at the amount of upvotes "subtle" transphobia and "just asking questions" transphobia still gets to realise that there are still lots of transphobes around that have just learned to keep it close to their chest. They still express it through votes though

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