Your third paragraph confuses me. Why would conservatives be alright with this solution?
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hansolo@lemmy.today 2 days ago
We don’t. There entirely immaterial to a modern world.
The instant 2 atheists got married, it opened the door to people of any gender pairing to get married. Marriage is just a social contact between 2 commenting adults ahemwith tax invectives. Only religion dictated which genders are allowed to do what.
Conservative hand wringing over public restroom use is mitigated by making all bathrooms gender neutral. Easy fix.
What else? Pink is for whoever the fuck likes it, you salmon short wearing closeted frat bros. You do you. Blue is for people doing Frozen cosplay. I dunno, gendered colors are so stupid.
john_save_america@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
hansolo@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Because conservative rich kids wear pink “ironically” as a flex that they’re rich, and therefore “manly enough” that they de-gender pink as a color.
john_save_america@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
What does that have to do with gender-neutral bathrooms?
hansolo@lemmy.today 18 hours ago
That conservatives use gender as a weapon at their discretion.
monotremata@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
I know it’s just a typo/autocorrect, but I seriously chuckled at “tax invectives.”
hansolo@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Thanks for the catch. I didn’t have my glasses so the blur of text looked like the right blur.
monotremata@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
It’s extremely apt. I’m definitely going to remember it next tax season.
hansolo@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Hey, a constant point John Hodgeman makes on his judgement podcast is that long term cohabitation without the tax breaks is foolish. There no reason to give the state more money just to stick it to convention.
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Those are good points. Genders amd gendered colors always were inconvenient to me. I hate how women’s gym shoes are always shitty colors and I have to worry about people offended because of traditional gender roles. It’s annoying af.
Pink is not considered feminine in many countries. Also, marriage is not Christian. Hindus, muslims, Buddhists, pagans, and all kind of folks get married and have before Christians existed. It’s not one man and one woman. Massai warriors and Mormons have lots of wives.
AA5B@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Some amount of gendered colors is a useful social shortcut. When our children were babies, we painted the nursery green because that’s my favorite color, and otherwise didn’t bother much with color. However when we went out we tended to have some obvious blue to make it simpler to talk about our baby. It’s easier for someone to say “he’s cute” because he has a blue blanket, than to have the “boy or girl?” Discussion.
Similarly our dog has a pink collar because it’s easier for someone to say “she’s cute” rather than “boy or girl?” And have some random person checking her genitals. It’s only here on Lemmy where people get pornographic about mention of a dog where they don’t know the gender
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
Good point.
hansolo@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Well and even in the West, pink and blue didn’t used to be gendered like they are. 100+ years ago yellow was boys, light blue for girls. So the gendering isn’t even static, it’s as fluid as gender itself.
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
Oh wow. I had no idea. That’s fun to imagine. I guess it’s easy to adapt the mind to the idea.