imo opinion this meme template works better when you use it ironically (greedy wokers stealing all the work time from poor starving employers)

i wish i understood this meme

the more i learn about humans the more one thing becomes clear to me: humans are incredibly good at adapting to new environments and accepting them as their new normal.

we are so incredibly shaped by our environments, i doubt there is much essential about people other than maybe a few inherent tendencies. that doesnt mean tho that people dont aquire attributes during their lives that become basically impossible to change. what has been unleashed once might be impossible to lock away ever again.

but whether inherent or not doesnt matter, because imo we should always let people be the way they wanna be and support them, unless they are being harmful (by a libertairian understnading), which is when we should try to help them or at least protect ourselves from them.

gender in german is a mess and german is either unequipped to communicate gender neutrally in an inclusive way or the extensions that would enable it are heavily being pushed against. this is a very obvious reality and it deserves anger by those negatively affected by it. my outrage is not manufactured by rightwing actors, it comes from my lived experience as someone affected. on that note, please do not dude me.

gramatical gender being random and meaningless is an annoyance, making german a lot harder to learn. you are right, this is distinct from gender justice but it is an annoyance with the german language and it contributes to gender in german being a mess.

and it just feels like a cruel joke, when your language does actually have a neutral form but that form is considered dehumanizing when used for people.

this is what bothers me so much aboit the “born this way” narrative. living is changing and experimenting. trying to galvanise people into one specific identity for life is just another face of cis-heteronormativity. we need to be free to be our authentic selves in every moment, as we feel in that moment.

the reason they wouldnt know, is because they wouldnt allow themselves to consider it.

when queer people are seen as an icky out-group, or not even truely discussed, it pushes people to ignore and supress their feelings. “i cant possibly be one of them! im normal!” “i might feel like i dont want to be my birth assigned gender, but there is nothing to be done about that :<”

it often takes time, positive awareness of queerness and an accepting environment or the ability to emancipate oneself from toxic environments to be able to overcome this conditioning.

so the illusiont that children cant know they are queer, is completely created by the heteronormative system opressing them

owww i thought it meant the english word mute ;w;

gender in german is absolute ass. i know other languages are worse but still >>:c

objects are gendered between masculine, feminine, and neutral, without any apparent pattern.
humans (and basically all nouns for them) are ofc also gendered but only as masculine and feminine (except some few exceptions like baby and girl) because ofc the neutral form is only for objects and animals and would be obectifying on humans… so oficially german has no gender neutral 3rd person pronouns (neither singular nor plural) and when it does need them, it just defaults to the masculine pronouns, because men are ofc the default.

now there are language reforms happening, trying to create new gender neutra noun suffixes, by merging the existing suffixes but ofc even this small addition has ben turned into a manufactured outrage for conservatives, reactionaries, and really anyone who doesnt belive there is a patriarchy.

no one outside of queer or radical leftist communities is even aware of the existance or capable of the usage of gender neutral neo pronouns (the only kind there is, other than the reclaimed neutral form).

this shit makes me so pissed whenever i think about it.

whats c/mute? i cant find it

i honestly believe the biggest part to this is steam having been around for a long time, and being a kind of the default video game store. people dont like being forced to get another launcher for a game, so whenever a game isnt on steam, they get mad at the whichever launcher its on.

i dont think there is very much critical thinking about drm, expoitative store platforms and capitalism going on.

thanks for posting! id love to see more sharing of interesting theory and questions lile this <3

i found it on duck duck go, looking for art by “your friendly neighbourhood schizophrenic”. this picture seems to come from facebook (cringe) and i dont know if its by the above mentioned artist.

@[email protected] probably relevant to your question as well

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science is often biased by cultural ideas. biology, medicine, and psychology, have been used to pathologise or naturalise things along social lines. this is also reflected in the language they created.

i think it is important for this language to be reevaluated, as culture and the scientific view on the world changes.

with the distinction between gender and sex becomming more popular, having compleletly destinct words might for example be positive…

feels like some weird boomer worker bashing idk

sorry im sure u just meant to spread funny xmas shitposts