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[–] IzzyScissor@lemmy.world 120 points 1 year ago (9 children)

If "your man card can be revoked" then you understand that gender is performative and conditional.

[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You would think that, wouldn't you?

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[–] Mango@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I understand that gender is made up and doesn't matter. There is nothing girly or manly.

[–] Thrashy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

For some the optionality of it is less important than the notion that if it's performative, you can be bad at it and therefore make yourself an acceptable target for abuse, and besides that the idea that some roles can be restricted to only those with a certain set of physical characteristics is deeply ingrained in many, be that in terms gender, career, or what have you.

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[–] Exusia@lemmy.world 89 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just can't win with some people. And that's ok, life isn't about impressing everyone - anyone who tries gets exhausted real fast.

[–] henfredemars 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only way to live life without pissing somebody off is by not doing anything worth doing.

[–] PizzaMane@lemm.ee 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And then you piss somebody off for not doing anything.

[–] mihnt@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

And it's the same person arguing with OP.

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Has my therapist been talking to you?

[–] TxzK@lemmy.zip 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's often time better to not just argue with these asshats. Waste of your time and energy while achieving less than a dog barking at a tree.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Ok but also you aren’t nonbinary just because you’re an effeminate man. They’re different things entirely

[–] tan00k@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can't gatekeep being nonbinary. Not unless you're prepared to define it explicitly, which will exclude many people - and not everyone will agree with your definition either.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I said just because. Not that effeminate men aren’t capable of being nonbinary, merely that it is not sufficient (or necessary for that matter). You have to like actually not identify as entirely a man.

But it’s not my place to fight I’m very much in the binary side of transness.

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[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 41 points 1 year ago

Even tho im a cishet male i can absolutely imagine how freaking annoying these people could be.

[–] ULS@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Homophobes are cute. Me and my homies only jerk off to homophobes. Just like those old WW2 vets that invented the gay leather scene. Except now the kink is to dress up as an Ultra-American instead of a German nazi. I got a 1776 shirt literally just to fuck with.

(One part humor, one part truth, one part bullshit. If my lame comedy makes anyone angry they aren't living the life they should be. Treat yo self.)

[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If nostalgia ever kicks in, German is my first language :P

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As a leather woman I do want people to know how the community actually formed. Motorcycling was a socially acceptable hobby and served two purposes: it as a hobby has just always been useful for men dealing with ptsd who aren’t comfortable with therapy (it’s worse than therapy but it’s better than nothing and it’s not like 1948 Americans were ready to hear that John can’t process that he killed someone and that he fell in love with a soldier who died in his arms), and it served as a convenient excuse to get out of town into the middle of nowhere where nobody will see gay sadomasochism unless they came to see it.

It’s never been a parody of the right, but it has had parodies of what was expected of them. The Nazi fetishists were different folks usually. Though we did have people wearing parodies of us uniforms

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[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

This has gotta be the meme that best sums up the situation lmao

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What makes a man, is it the power in his hands?

Is it his quest for glory?

[–] Zink@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

Gowron eyes intensify

[–] SuperNinjaFury@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Give it all you got, to fight to the top.

So we can know your story!

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[–] Rolder@reddthat.com 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Then you have another person calling them trans

[–] GiveMemes@jlai.lu 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

As an amab man with long hair and emotions that is frequently misgenedered (even with facial hair) yall are down voting something that is far too true

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[–] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, the "can always tell" crowd. AKA "I don't think this person is attractive enough to be cis."

[–] FJW@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

The scientist in me is sooo tempted by the idea of setting up a website where people have to classify pictures of cis and well-passing trans people by AGAB to really drive the point home that no, those fuckers CANNOT tell. They can usually only tell when the person in question is in the progress of medical transition which is an instance of “no shit Sherlock, why do you think we want to get this done as quickly as possible”. And yes, Enbys are a bit of a different story, but even a lot of them pass very well as the opposite of their AGAB, even though they often don’t even identify as that.

The big issue with this is that the vast majority of people making those kinds of statements are incapable of thinking rationally and instead just continue being bigots.

[–] GiveMemes@jlai.lu 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Idk dude I ngl I look like a long-haired Charlie Puth (to the point where different people have told me that I look like him on the same night lmao) but somehow people still get the wrong idea lol.

[–] Deadeyegai@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then as a man, I choose to act like a girly-Man©. See? Has Man© and that symbol makes it official. That means I can do anything <'ronswanson meme.jpg'> Checkmate. Easy victory

A real Girly-Man wears blue armor with white toilet seats painted on the shoulders. Rowboat.

[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's funny how it only seems to be a problem in on direction. Boyish women or 'tomboys' are applauded in a lot of circles.

[–] HumanPenguin@lemmy.cafe 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Historically less so. Even back in the 80s lots of girls i knew and thought of as tom boys. Where forced to dress and act girlie by there parents. Further back you go more limits there were.

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[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Men can behave girly.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Reactionaries have no underlying principles, they just react, violently in some cases. If you guide them through their own cobbled-together set of values and show the contradictions, they get angry and start yelling, because to them, they are their own moral arbiter and a challenge to their status quo is an enemy.

Gender is a Social construct and getting upset at people for being outside the bimodal spectrum conservative society expects them to be is utterly pointless, stupid, and harmful.

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

it's designed so that you can't win except by being and doing precisely what you're told. this is because it's designed by evil people and promoted by weak people.

[–] Safipok@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

🚫Girly ✅Childish

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