Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/gender-2

  • jpreston2005@lemmy.world
    151·
    1 day ago

    My little brother, I’m fairly certain, pioneered this technique in dealing with our racist parents.

    My parents would say something casually awful, about LGBTQ, Black, Latino, or Muslim people and my lil bro would sarcastically, and enthusiastically agree, stringing their point along to the logical conclusion of their hate-centered universe, and watch them get more and more uncomfortable.

    example:

    parents: “Black people are just genetically more violent”

    lil Bro: “Oh yeah, they’re genetically inferior all right, and genes can be altered before birth, so we should treat melanin as a genetic anomaly and edit it entirely out. we should put the rest in cages and make them perform like in a zoo. Everyone who isn’t perfectly milky alabaster white should be shot out of a cannon and into the sun. My freckles are a sin to god and we should cut them out of our bodies ritualistically. My friend Gary is black, let’s go fucking shoot him for it.”

    Parents: 😶

    I had been away for a minute and watched it happen for the first time, and I laughed, applauded, and clapped my bro on the back… So proud of him.

  • Laser@feddit.org
    122·
    1 day ago

    I still love Biden’s answer to the question how many genders there are

    He probably didn’t come up with it but it’s still so funny to me

  • radio@sh.itjust.works
    21·
    2 days ago

    Even if they want to believe that there are only two genders that doesn’t mean that someone can’t transition from one to the other. Even under the rules they are so desperate to establish trans people still exist.

    • Grail@multiverse.soulism.netEnglish
      18·
      2 days ago

      The point is to carve away at our community piece by piece. They mostly lost the fight against binary trans people in public perception, so they’ve retreated to attacking nonbinary people. If they successfully turn public perception against us, they’ll come for the binaries next.

  • atopi@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    132·
    2 days ago

    gender is binary. Your gender is either 0 or 1

    since people have yet to associate numbers with gender expression , you can define the 2 genders however you want

    • gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com
      9·
      2 days ago

      Perhaps gender is a quantum state and no one knows what or where it is until you measure it and its quantum state collapses

      • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
        10·
        2 days ago

        That’s unironically a good way of thinking about it.

        One of my proudest achievements in life is having used particle-wave duality to explain non-binary gender to a bunch of cis-het physics-bros, and also using non-binary gender to explain quantum physics to queer folk. I’m disproportionately pleased with having been able to use this explanation successfully both ways.

        (I also think it says a lot about me that I have found myself in situations where it isn’t uncommon that I get an opportunity to attempt this. Explaining gender to passively bigoted cis-hets feels like it’s part of my ethical duty to the world, but menacing my friends with quantum physics monologues is just for fun)

        • brsrklf@jlai.lu
          1·
          2 days ago

          “A gender press is a gender press you can’t say it’s only a half”

          TJ “Henry” Yoshi, before being taught better

          • humorlessrepost@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 day ago

            Since half an a-press is starting the level with it already pressed, I think staying your gender assigned at birth would be half a gender press.

  • TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
    63·
    2 days ago

    Seems to me the number of genders depends on the culture. If your culture says there are only two genders, then there are two, in that culture. If your culture says there are more than two, then there are more than two, in that culture.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      1 day ago

      The problem with this argument is that the anti-trans people will just say “our culture only has two” and that will be the end of their argument.

      • TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 day ago

        anti-trans people will just say “our culture only has two” and that will be the end of their argument.

        It’s just a statement of fact. Some cultures only identify two genders. If you live in such a culture, and you disagree with that aspect of the culture, you have a few choices: try to change that aspect of the culture through advocacy, try to force change somehow, like by using state authority, or leave and join another culture that more closely aligns with your beliefs. I would probably at least try advocacy at first, but it can be a challenge. Some cultures are very resistant to change, especially on matters such as gender.

  • rockerface🇺🇦@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    I can’t decide whether this is an intentional Jujutsu Kaisen reference or an accidental Jujutsu Kaisen reference because both are funny.