Comment on Which is which?

smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  The only bees with stingers are the female ones, though.

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  • smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Fine, Bs represent bra size so that’s the women’s room, and a cock is a bird, so that’s the men’s room.

    Any way you slice it, these signs don’t help.

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    • Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      A tit is a bird though

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      • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        I give up I’m going to go piss in the kitchen

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      • Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        So is a Booby

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      • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        As is a cock.

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      • Signtist@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Gotta have both.

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• sjmarf@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Birds have peckers

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  • smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Wow, how did I miss that??

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• grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Wtf

  Alternate comment: I love how you need to internalize 100 years of sexism before you can relieve yourself

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Harmless old slang terms are now sexist. Got it.

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    • Maven@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I’m pretty sure it was sexist back then too. It’s just that nobody cared.

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      • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Googled it real quick and it’s from the French Burd, meaning noblewoman

        So… No?

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    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Nope

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• StrongHorseWeakNeigh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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  • smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    You’re using logic in a situation where someone has to pee badly.

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• ekky@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Thank you for the explanation.

  As someone not too familiar with American cultures, I’d probably make an assumption and go for the (to me) more masculine bird over the docile and flower loving bee, since bees have stingers that they normally would never use and birds have beaks/peckers.

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  • VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I’ve only ever heard bird used as working class slang for a woman in Britain.

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    • ekky@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Hmm, well, I have heard women being compared to singing birds (or more degrading as vultures or pen of hens if in group), but I’ve more often heard women being romantically compared to bees or flowers. Though, I don’t think I’ve ever heard men being compared to bees, but often to birds (eagles, vultures, seagulls, etc.).

      Might also be local culture, as I usually think of harmony, nature, and perhaps matriarchy when pondering bees, while birds seem much more gender neutral, like, standoff-ish, elegant, brutal, impulsive, egoistic, even presented as predatory and evil in children movies and some media.

      So, using common stereotyping, you can see where I’m coming from.

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    • smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Maybe that’s where I heard it? Dunno, it’s certainly not current by any stretch.

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• MadBob@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Odd that so many people are coming out the woodwork to say they didn’t know Britons fairly often call women birds.

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  • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I’ve heard dame used more often than bird myself. Honestly, not sure I’ve actually heard bird used… it’s like a vague sense of “I think I knew that… right?” and my brain shrugs back.

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    • VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      It’s slang you’d hear 50 years ago in the east end and Essex. You’ll only really hear it used by gangsters in movies these days or someone putting on the accent for laughs, possibly from an old geezer, you certainly won’t hear it used by respectable establishments or family friendly media. It’s not generally considered offensive but is considered uncouth.

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