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[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Some people just have to be the specialist snowflake around. Attention seeking at its finest.

[–]MarkTwainiac 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Not necessarily. I saw this as a young woman rejecting being repeatedly labelled by others as a "girl" and a "lady" in sexually objectifying and belittling ways. She never once denied she was a woman or female.

Lots of self-respecting women over age 18 would respond - and have responded - in the same way. Coz we're women, not girls, and "lady" has sexist, regressive, limiting connotations.

When I was that age (nearly half a century ago) and people called me "girl" or "lady," I also corrected them by saying, "no, I'm not a girl - not a lady" just as this young woman did. Trust me, it wasn't coz of internalized misogyny.

[–][deleted] 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

This video is about her identity as a non binary person

[–]MarkTwainiac 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Oh, okay. Thanks and sorry. I focused exclusively on what was actually said in the video, and didn't pay any heed to the hashtags & captioned slogans as that sort of stuff always strikes me as just childish scribbles and meaningless visual clutter that make my eyes glaze over. Which I now see caused me to miss the point entirely. Duh.

I think I'd best refrain from commenting on anything from TikTok ever again.

[–]ColoredTwice 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

To understand how weird calling us as "ladies" is - one can imagine that men being called lords.