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Humans and Stripes (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 130 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Apparently there's no actual evidence to suggest cats can see them. Lame

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Even if cats could talk, and could definately see the stripes, I'm convinced that they wouldn't tell anyone.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago

They'd gossip about them with other cats behind your back

"Kevin's stripes make him look like a moron"

\ Kevin whistling while sweeping the kitchen oblivious to the fact that he has stripes let alone stupid looking ones and that cats can talk

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don't fucking ruin it Gary.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Their name is Steeve.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I know it's the wrong sub for this opinion, but that's a fucking annoying way to post.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's convenient for mobile users, I can see how it would be frustrating for people with landscape/horizontal monitor though.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

I am using google chrome and I found that opening the post's image in a new tab, clicking on the image once to zoom in, and then adjusting the zoom setting to 250% made the image easier to view and scroll. I hope that helps.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

As aliens describing us? Or a large screenshot?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

desktop here, was easy as hell lol

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If cats can see them, then surely we can make tech that converts those wavelengths to one's humans can see, so we can admire each other's stripes.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The only actual use for Apple's Vision Pro headset

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

And open whole new untapped method of racism

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is a wild ride

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Try it again while high... I am shook 🤯

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago (1 children)

not sure i can follow, but is this true or some collective trolling/joking/pranking or something of the sort ?

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaschko's_lines?wprov=sfti1

At least the pattern part seems true.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

This should be at the top.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I believe "bruh" is the appropriate gender neutral pronoun.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Bruh is interchangable with bro

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

How do you do, fellow striped humans?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Theeee fuck?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Anyone know whether we can see these stripes in some way? IR cameras? Ultraviolet spectrum?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My Charlotte after I asked her to tell me what kind of stripes I have:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You guys are twins!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Huh?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just a little joke that you both have similar markings

like this

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Fair enough, but that's not me lol 😁

[+] [email protected] -35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

Sort of off topic. But if you are putting a disclaimer that something is "gender neutral", just use a different word. Y'all? Fam? 😂

For those that say these are inherently gender neutral, how many bros have you slept with? Would you sleep with a man? This is all literally patriarchy. Male isn't the "default" human experience.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Bro and dude have effectively become gender neutral for referring to someone. It's not patriarchy, it's how a language evolves.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago

I agree on dude, and can see bro coming but at present in my daily life bruh is the neutral. And I do hope it wins or else it's mankind all over again

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I call some of my female friends "dude." What's that count as, Language Arbiter?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Firstly, does thinking a "(gender neutral)" at the end of sentance is really weird and awkward truly make me the language police? Come on, it's clunky at best, a weird lazy lamshapde to virtue signal at worst. Just use something else if your intent is to have something gender neutral.

But to answer your question. If your lady friends don't mind being called dude, then why should I?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I read that as lampshade.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Me two

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 years ago

Are your female friends city people who've travelled to a rural area?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Your argument doesn't really work, because 'bro' isn't a word used to describe sex partners, in the same vein, you would never say "I've slept with the boys", but you could use the sentence "I was hanging out with the boys".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sure, I'm not really trying to play a semantics game so much as call attention to the fact that these are inherently gendered terms. If you were to say "hanging out with the girls (gender neutral)" or say "hanging out with the boys (gender neutral)", you are just being awkward and should just change the word.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago

That's fair I suppose, to me, "bro" is an inherently gender neutral term, though "girls" is gender neutral to me in the same vein.

Adding on the 'gender neutral' is kinda redundant, and I can see why it would be annoying, actually, it's annoying me too now, because if the writer simply used "bros" and not "bros (gender neutral)", the expression's gender (gender/non-gendered) would not have been moved to gendered, and most people would understand it to be a gender neutral expression.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Bro.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I fuck bros all the time but I'm gay and non-binary

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Genuine question because that confused the heck out of my brain.

What does gay and non-binary together mean? Are you only attracted to other non-binary people?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

I had a straight non-binary friend once; ze was small and androgynous and ze would generally date "lumberjack witch" enbies or other people who were differently gendered from zir.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

uh, I definitely want to sleep with my bro's

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What are you on about? There's not even a male pronoun in the whole post

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Look at Tumblr post #5 in the image.