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

I find it amazing how well the different fediverse platforms interact with each other.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago

That's exactly why it needs to be something you are willing to explain. It makes their stories better.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

It's very much not okay. In general, imposing labels on people is a bad thing. Doesn't matter how much better someone thinks they know, people get to explore their identities in their own way and at their own pace.

When I see someone imposing the egg or trans label I generally point them to the egg prime directive here.

When someone is just told they are trans, that opens ground for denial; it activates defense mechanisms built by internalized transphobia, and it has a high probability of pushing them further into the closet, if not making them outright transphobic. Even when it doesn’t, it leaves ground for their own subconscious to reject their dysphoria, claiming that they were just manipulated or deceived. The much more effective strategy is to talk about your own experiences with dysphoria so that they see the common grounds and come to their own conclusion about their gender. The code doesn’t forbid helping them to explore their gender; it forbids assigning a gender to them. Or, to put it more succinctly, you cannot be told what the Matrix is; you can only be shown.

As to why some people don't follow that. Either they don't know better, in which case educating them should fix it, or they are simply [epithet of your choice here]. Any community of sufficient size will have bad actors in it.

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

I have the urge to edit it to have a laser beam now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

It's a meme on the philosophy of what gender is. Being supportive of other people choices is nice but isn't really relevant to the meme.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

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

How are you tracking them to other sites? There's not really anything that links a user account to an actual person in the data that gets federated.

 
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Pronouns (i.imgur.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Image description: A list of pronouns with gender symbols next to them.

He [Mars symbol]
She [Venus symbol]
They [Trans gender symbol, combination of Mars, Venus and Androgyne symbols]
We [Hammer and sickle]

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

It's an uncountable noun. You are asking a question roughly akin to "How many airs are there?" There's not an answer because it does not have the quality of countability.

 

Image description: Quark from Star Trek: Deep Space 9 sitting at his bar looking at the viewer. Text is overlayed on the image that reads, "Yes, I memorized all the genders. Some alien cultures are impossible to do business with if you don't gender them correctly."

 

image description: Twitter post by Faith Naff @faithnaff.

I think trans people should get thrown transition showers like brides and pregnant people get. All your friends come over to celebrate this big moment in your life, gift you things to start living your true gender, and just have a big party. Can we make that a thing?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's from a meme about an IKEA stuffed shark that gained traction within the trans community. It's actually what the instance, blahaj, this community is hosted on is named after.

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Shark! (i.imgur.com)
 

Image description: The text "No-one:" followed by nothing. Then the text "Trans people:" followed by an image from the anime Azumanga Daio with a girl holding an inflatable shark. The caption in the image reads "Ta-da! Here's a shark!"

 

Image description: Two images. The top image is of a sign for a "Back to the Bible Holiness Church*" that reads "God created man & woman Satan made gays and transgender gen 5:2". The bottoms image is of a women sitting on a porch wearing sunglasses, dark clothes, and smoking. The caption reads "Praise Satan."

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

This is the oldest source I can find. Now that I'm looking it is taged #my art.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

It's has been co-opted by the far right.

Someone did a longer explanation on Reddit.

 

Image description: Kirby standing in front of a whiteboard while holding a pointer towards it. The whiteboard has the text, "You don't need to have signs from your childhood to be trans. The only requirement for being trans is to want to be a different gender."

 
 

Image description: A photo of a young boy and girl cowering in a corner scared. A rabbit and bucket is sitting on the floor in front of them. The young boy and girl are labeled "Transneutral", "Transfems", and "Transmascs". The rabbit is labeled "mirror mazes".

 
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