Sekoia

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Sekoia ,

But there's no "biological" reason for that. In the same way, skirts/dresses being for women and suits/ties being for men, leg hair, haircuts, voice, mannerisms, emotional availability, all get tied one gender or another.

We, in our society, have associated some properties to one of two genders. Some of these properties tend to be associated to one sex (sex being a more "biological" thing (but still not binary or unchangeable!)), but many of them are just expectations we put upon people. This is what "gender is a social construct" means; that the general understanding and intuition about gender is constructed by the society in which we live. Different societies may have more than 2 genders or completely different sets of associations.

Unfortunately these categorizations are bad for a significant portion of the population, including trans people, gender non-confirming people, but even cishet people; how many times have you heard of some act making you "not a real man" (eg crying for a movie)?

Sekoia ,

I'm assuming this is referring to JSO.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Stop_Oil

Beginning on 1 April, they carried out England-wide blockades of ten critical oil facilities, intending to cut off the supply of petrol to South East England.[33][34][35]

On 26 August, the group blocked seven petrol stations in Central London and vandalised fuel pumps. Forty-three people around London were arrested on suspicion of criminal damage.

On 20 June, the protestors spray painted private jets at a private airfield at Stansted Airport. The group had been targeting a jet belonging to singer Taylor Swift, but could not locate it.[140]

Yes, a lot of their protests are "awareness" stuff (basically none of which do actual damage. Unlike oil, actually!). No, it's not just that. The UK isn't an active warzone so bombing stuff is slightly more difficult to justify.

Sekoia ,

.... The root of the thread you're replying's main body is stuff JSO has actually achieved.

Sekoia ,

"Well and truly over two decades" is definitely true...

https://xkcd.com/2889/

Exxon had a report in the 80s talking about a 1°C rise in "40 years" ie literally right now

Sekoia ,

Yeah fair enough, I didn't mean to contradict you, more add on to your comment

Sekoia ,

Last one is the only one I actually got (and MHA actually). It's animal crossing.
Edit: Oh! Second to last is Artemis Fowl

Sekoia ,

I checked out Nostr relatively recently and it seemed to me it was full of cryptobros and extremely right-wing people (libertarians, Trump fanatics. A ton of racism and queerphobia, also a bunch of conspiracy thinking). Has anything changed?

Sekoia ,

Who's the swiss prof?

Sekoia ,

I love that this sub is still small enough that I can see the exact chain of events that made this post happen in real time lol

Sekoia ,

As far as I know Switzerland only had one and we call it the Sonderbund war

Sekoia ,

Yes and no. Pi is assumed to be normal, which means that any non-infinite sequence happens in pi. However, the digits of 0.1011011101111011111... are infinite and non-repeating, and yet you'll never see a 00 or a 2.

Sekoia ,

Nah a boyfriend is fine, a good chunk of kpop is shipping the guys in a band together. It's a girlfriend you really have to watch out for.

Sekoia ,

There's a few (much smaller-scale) walls like that around where I live and I always find them so pretty <3

Sekoia ,

None of those groups are ever mentioned. Why is that your first reaction, honestly? There's nothing... there?

This is a purely fun post, playing on specific stereotypes of specific subgroups of those groups. There are other stereotypes for these groups: figurine painting, grilling, etc for dads, and for lesbians... well actually most of those are either only known in some communities or are mildly homophobic so.

I agree that gender stereotypes are bad, and you could easily argue that "can use mechanical tools" being a masculine stereotype is bad (it is. Also the fact that lesbians get lumped in with masculinity buut I'm getting off track), but this isn't the post to do that on.

Sekoia ,

I'm legitimately not trying to be (also, rude). There's an initial stereotype used to make a joke, a second similar one to play on it, and the rest is just development. There is literally no implication for any other groups anywhere, you made that jump on your own. There are other groups who have "being handy" as a stereotype, like old people rebuilding their decks or whatever, so it's not even like this post means all other groups suck at it.

And what part of your comment wasn't serious? It's literally just a sarcastic complaint

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