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[–]Spicylikegumbo[S] 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (12 children)

The left is moving swiftly. First they said sex and gender are different. Then they said there is no sex; there's just gender. Now there is no gender. Everyone needs to be gender-blind or non-binary when they shop.

[–]adungitit 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

Uh, yes, everyone should be gender blind and "nonbinary" because gender is a patriarchal load of horseshit. How about actually reading into radical feminism and GC instead of thinking you're welcome just because you don't like trans people?

[–]fuckupaddams 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

I think you're misunderstanding her. I had a whole similar argument on reddit yesterday with a woman who said I should be subscribed to r/agender and call myself nonbinary and use they/them pronouns just because I think gender is a load of horseshit. She couldn't believe that I could be female, a woman, use she/her pronouns, and still think gender is a load of horseshit (I'm a woman because of my sex, and my pronouns are sex based, nothing to do with gender.)

I think the person you're replying to is complaining about a similar thing. You don't need to come out as nonbinary and change your pronouns just because you think gender is bs, that's reinforcing the gender binary in a way.

[–]adungitit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

Oh, some rando on Reddit thinks women who aren't feminine are agender? Well, I guess that makes all the misogynistic gendering a-okay, then! Let's remove women's voting rights and make them stop wearing pants to show the transes what for, while we're at it!

Toys are not male or female and I don't give a rat's ass that some rando on Reddit says they're some multi-gender unicorn that's ascended beyond our mammalian biology. Repeat after me: Toys are not male or female. This is not about toys being labelled "nonbinary", the article literally does not mention "nonbinary" or "agender" even once, nor any of the trans ideology anywhere, so why you're performing these mental gymnastics and hallucinating that this is about anything other than anger at gender roles being removed is beyond me. You have the article linked, you have the comments, your interpretation of the comments and the article is 100% baseless, stop making things up that are completely unrelated to the text you have at hand.

[–]Spicylikegumbo[S] 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

Y'all ignore "a dung". It changed its post after I responded. Its original post was along the lines of "you're not a true feminist and you hate trans and you're not welcomed here." Now it is ranting because it got triggered by the words "the left." My post was to highlight how their rules keep changing. So to sum up, here is what a dung really wants to write, "Spicy criticized the left. It offended me because I vote down ballots for Democrats. Now I need to use the left tactic of calling our critics hateful so that everyone else can turn against her. Spicy is racist, ageist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, cisnormative P.O.S. I hope the mods ban Spicy because she said 'the left'. I won't sleep tonight until Spicy is punished for calling me out on my bull. God speed!"

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

Lol. I mean, I wasn't completely sure what your original post meant, but I always figure it's best to assume good intentions until there's reason not to. The response to you though was just batshit. I consider myself a liberal, but "the left" these days is definitely not liberal.

[–]Spicylikegumbo[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

My original post was pointing out the inconsistency as well as the government overreach of the left. Just last week they said little Joey was assigned the wrong gender since he likes dolls and dresses. This week they are telling us that gender doesn't exist in toys and clothing. They are not consistent and need to stop trying to parent the public. I played with dolls, guns, kitchen sets, and legos. But my niece is a straight up girly girl. It's hella convenient for me to filter on "girls" and get her gifts out of the way. Maybe the post would have been better on a political sub, but I just find it funny that they try to acknowledge gender and ignore gender at the same time.

[–]lefterfield 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

For sure, that's what I figured you meant. As for the gendered toys, I have mixed feelings. It is convenient to be able to filter girls vs boys if you know the sort of thing you're looking for. I just worry that the separation makes people also conclude that girls ought to play with and boys ought to play with... etc. Not all people obviously.

[–]our_team_is_winning 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Is "dung" a TRA here? I had a different user name person the other day ask me "What women's rights are transpeople taking away?" Seriously?

[–]Spicylikegumbo[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I can't tell honestly. A dung said I hated trans before replacing the post with the tirade you see now.

[–]adungitit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

lol what? I didn't change my post at all and it's still up there for all to see? What in the world are you talking about?

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

Toys are not male or female and I don't give a rat's ass that some rando on Reddit says they're some multi-gender unicorn that's ascended beyond our mammalian biology. Repeat after me: Toys are not male or female.

... I know this. You're really not understanding what any of us are saying.