• bunkyprewster@startrek.website
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    1 day ago

    I’m kind of assuming that only trans people have a clear view of all our gender bullshit. I sure wish someone would explain it to (cis) me.

    • EldritchFemininity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      16 hours ago

      It’s like how anime and Metal Gear have a better grasp of American politics than Americans do. We’ve seen it from the outside and have a clearer picture of the absurdity of the whole.

      Gender can be summed up as a bunch of rules we made up to simplify the human condition into a few boxes because our brains don’t like it when stuff is complicated. And then the Christians came in and told everybody that they can’t have more choices than two boxes because anything more is wrong and ignore the fact that the man in the sky is actually non-binary and likes nonbinary people more because they’re more like him. And one box is better than the other because nature says so don’t question it.

      Tldr: gender is a performance, so you might as well set yours to Rules of Nature