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[–] 23 points 1 year ago

Surprisingly wholesome for a memes community

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    🐔 <- BEHOLD! A woman!

    /S

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Some of those aren't really optional... I'd love to not menstruate, but I gotta wait for menopause for that. Not my choice to bleed for several days and get major cramps and back pain every month. It just happens.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I think it was more a commentary for trans women being women

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Also old. And women who’ve had hysterectomies. And intersex women.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I had a hysterectomy. Kept the ovaries as to not start menopause. It was the best decision I have ever made in my life.

    So technically I have my periods hormonally but don't bleed or feel pain, so there's that option if you don't plan on ever having kids.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    If you can tolerate the birth control pill, take it continuously, skipping the placebo pills. I did this for years (at my doctor's direction) and never had to have a period. It was awesome. Unfortunately I had to go off the pill to start HRT for perimenopause and now aunt flo is back >:(

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Taking the Pill has never really been something I considered since I'm not a fan of taking pills outside of medical necessity (exception for ibuprofen because pain sucks). I also kind assumed force blocking it permanently would be really bad for some health reason.

    If it's not though and I can really just deleteit like that... Very much worth looking into. Useful to know!

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Yes, fart with pride! Always compliment public farts.

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  • [+] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Fairly sure someone needs to identify as a women to be considered a women.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I don't get why you got downvoted for this. When I see a trans-looking or tomboish female-assigned-at-birth person, who in their most comfortable looks does not want to look like a girl and trying their best not to look as one, then it'd be bigoted of me to assume they identify as a woman or address them with "she".

    Similary if I saw a trans-looking male-assigned-at-birth person with makeup and girl clothes for example, it'd be bigoted of me to assume that they identify as a man or would want me to be address them with "he".

    In fact when nessecary and when it's almost obvious, I respectfully take the chance and call them "mam, and she" and they apprecaite it with a smile of approval and a happy-pitched voice in return because I repect people however they wish to identify themselves.

    I want to know the viewpoints of someone who downvoted you.

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  • [+] -6 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    This being posted on this sublemmy implies this is an ironic post. For those of you without the ability to read between the lines.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Really? Memes don't need to be ironic or funny.

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  • [+] -6 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

    Doesn't match any definition of meme. Other than Richard Dawkin's maybe.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Other than the dude who literally coined the term?

    As in like, the definition of a meme? What the hell definition are you using?

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I don't maybe the way people use the word, like every other fucking word.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    My guy, that is how everyone else uses the word.

    Again, what definition are you using, because the rest of us are entirely in the dark about what you mean

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Haha funny images that follow an established template. You think most even know who Dawkins is?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What a stupid take; I don't know who coined the term "coffee," does that mean I don't know what coffee is?

    And yeah sorry to inform you dude, but you are the only one incorrectly thinking that meme means "funny image."

    What you're describing is an image macro, a specific type of meme.

    And honestly taking it further, it is the templates used themselves that are mematic, not the individual images themselves, if we wanna get real pedantic about it.

    Meme does not, and has never, been "funny images that follow a template" any more than "music" is "down tuned guitar riffs over blast beats." That is just a singular example of the greater form.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Now you are just being willfully obtuse to protect your ego. Go look up the difference between descriptive and prescriptive.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Image doesn't show for me.

    And I'm well aware of the difference, I'm saying that you are perceiving how people have been using the term wrong. People say meme when talking about image macros the same way people say fruit when talking about apples; it applies because the thing being discussed is an example of the field but it is not the whole of the field.

    It is okay to be wrong. People will respect you more if you simply say "wow, I guess I didn't realize that."

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    me too I don't get it because it's in memes. it's the boomer-comedian execuse for just wanting to be funny not offensive when you find what they say offensive, while also opting to show they make a valid point when you don't.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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    [–] 23 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    in the more obtuse original definition:

    (originally) Any unit of (originally cultural) information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes.

    as opposed to the more common definition you'd expect to find here...

    (Internet) Media, usually humorous, which is copied and circulated online with slight adaptations, such as basic pictures, video templates, etc.

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/meme#Noun

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I'm on-board with everything else, but is not farting all the time just basic manners?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    There's a balance. I have known plenty of women who felt it was not permissible to fart around people/in public ever. One would not even fart around her husband of 10+ years. Another would only fart when they were at home, in the bathroom. Another felt it was inappropriate to ever fart, even when she was pooping (as a result of this, she once was so constipated that she had to go to the hospital).

    Whilst these are particularly extreme examples, they're just instances of a general trend where women farting is stigmatised more than men farting. I interpret the image in the OP to be resisting that excessive pressure and unrealistic standard rather than advocating for disregarding basic courtesy and farting with impunity

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It is, but the post still stands, you don't need to hold in that fart to be a women, people can still find it rude though.

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    "TIL i do women people things. lol"

    The point of "you don't have to hold your farts in to be a woman" isn't to suggest that only women fart, but that farting is a thing that people do, and that given that women are a subset of people, women fart (and that farting doesn't make someone less of a woman)

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