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nonbinary @lemmy.one

Hellfire103 @sopuli.xyz

2y ago

Gender isn't real: it's just an idea

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/6893359

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You should also crosspost to !nonbinary@lemmy.blahaj.zone, this one (and lemmy.one in general) isn't very active anymore.
Our obsession with gender is deeply weird to me (though not as weird as other languages that gender all nouns).
Why have we decided that the most important thing when referring to people (with pronouns) is their gender, over a million other things like their hair colour, height, political prescriptions, age...
It serves no meaningful purpose, and we as a society should get past it.
- Do you say that when someone gets upset at being called the wrong name repeatedly? A name is something we made up but getting it wrong repeatedly shows a blatant disregard for the person it represents.
- We care because everybody deserves respect and to be taken seriously
  
  I think you're responding to a troll (see comment history, they're stalking this meme and JAQing off)
so we went full circle. From gender being synonym to biological sex. Then making a load of different definitions for gender. And now figuring out we never needed a different definition of gender.
Social media activism in a nutshell.

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