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[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 55 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

gender reveal parties, but a pendant shows up and explains it's meant to be a sex reveal party, but due to the more risque use of the word sex, and the ambigious uses of the word gender, communication about the motive of such things are difficult, and a feeding ground for pendants, people who have been marginalised, and oppressors.

I also don't know where I'm going with this. I'm not sure what my next task should be and I'm letting my mind percolate.

[-] Blahaj_Blast@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 21 hours ago
[-] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 20 hours ago

It really is a genital reveal party... Never thought about it that way. Thanks!

[-] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 21 hours ago

Was it an opal pendant, or perhaps a cameo?

Also, I prefer French press over percolate.

The time of the French press has passed. It's time for the percolator ( 16 years ago anyway).

[-] zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 20 hours ago

Pedant here, use an Oxford comma.

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 14 points 20 hours ago

oxford deez nuts.

fixed it anyway.

[-] sleen@lemmy.zip 11 points 21 hours ago

Ambiguous usage of the word is one of the reasons oppressors have such outdated and undereducated views. The less ambiguity the easier it can be explained to the common folk.

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 8 points 20 hours ago

The fun bit is that the word gender was pulled from linguistics into sociology exactly to try to make a less ambiguous situation.

It literally went "what if we talked about people having gender like the French talk about objects?” Much like people, a table is feminine in French regardless of if it has a penis or not.

Later, people decided to use gender as a synonym for sex and complain about using the word gender in a way that's ambiguous with sex.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 hours ago

a table is feminine in French regardless of if it has a penis or not.

Which most tables in France do, of course.

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Gender has been conflated with human sex from the fifteenth century, but I like your explanation of the sociological application.

[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 6 points 21 hours ago

Who invited the streaker to the gender reveal party?

[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 8 points 20 hours ago

Me. The last one was boring. And the one before that started a huge fire. Figured nudity was safer.

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