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Geordie Pordy Puddin’ n’ Pie

In one of the very mainstream normy Facebook groups I'm in someone decided to post "there are two genders."

I replied "That's like saying there's two temperatures, hot, and cold. I mean it's sort of like that if you put the least conceivable amount of thought into it, but for a whole bunch of people it doesn't work and they need to go into detail, and that's fine. For most people, it's a hot day or it's a cold day, but then some people are like it's 17 degrees which exists kinda inbetween."

And this Facebook group that has never ever had gender discourse, nor will it ever again, gave me like 160 likes and a few comments like "Huh..." then the OP deleted their post lol.

8 Oct 2023 at 10:19 | Open on aus.social
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VirtualWolf
Geordie Pordy Puddin’ n’ Pie

@virtualwolf a hobby of mine is to come up with ~deeply disturbing~ ways of discussing this with people who are not usually discussing this and are dismissive of the usual ways of doing so.

8 Oct 2023 at 10:21 | Open on aus.social
Geordie Pordy Puddin’ n’ Pie

@virtualwolf I reckon you could've heard a synapse making a new connection in a few of those FB group members.

8 Oct 2023 at 10:22 | Open on aus.social
Helpdesk Stu

@geordie bravo.

I tend to do a “reeeaaally?” Kind of response.

8 Oct 2023 at 10:38 | Open on aus.social
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JP

@geordie Trans is how 17 degrees is fine in Celsius, quite chilly in Fahrenheit, and superconducting in Kelvin. This is also why so many trans people are furries that make the internet work.

8 Oct 2023 at 11:04 | Open on eigenmagic.net
Gabriel Pettier

@geordie really nice analogy, thanks for sharing!

8 Oct 2023 at 11:20 | Open on mas.to
Tor Iver Wilhelmsen

@geordie yes, it’s funny how the "binary thinking" crowd invariably end up adding criteria like hair length, voice registers, clothes etc. and basically make it a scale anyway. The moment you start talking about "real men don’t…" you have just created a new gender slightly different from "men".

8 Oct 2023 at 11:33 | Open on mas.to
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