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[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 109 points 1 year ago

Relevant and accurate. I'm none of these things.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 84 points 1 year ago
[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] Zorque@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago
[-] binomialchicken 32 points 1 year ago

What sort of gender is *******?

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So, ~~this is~~ I have a dumb joke and need to explain far too much for it to be funny, but don't think that would stop me:

In German, we do this thing where nouns for jobs have gender, so a male teacher is a "Lehrer" and a female teacher is a "Lehrerin".

Now, if you want to refer to any teacher independent of gender, traditionally you used the male form.
This was found to bias people to more readily employ men, worsening gender inequality. So, we started writing things as "Lehrer/in" to show that both genders are meant.

Then several more genders got released, so to show that non-binaries are also included, we came up with the Gendersternchen™: Lehrer*in

It's the ~~cousin of Rumpelstilzchen~~ "gender asterisk" and very popular with the conservatives, I can assure you.

Anyways, the dumb joke is that therefore ******* is the gender that's so fluid, they had to just make it a bunch of Gendersternchen. 🙃

[-] athalean 18 points 1 year ago

Anyways, the dumb joke is that therefore ******* is the gender that’s so fluid, they had to just make it a bunch of Gendersternchen

I admire the dedication of providing all the context for this joke, and it's amazing.

But does that imply not only the gender is fluid, but also the profession? 🤔

[-] match@pawb.social 18 points 1 year ago

i need a whole lemmy community of non-English language jokes highly explained to me in translation please

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago

It's the ~~cousin of Rumpelstilzchen~~ "gender asterisk" and very popular with the conservatives, I can assure you.

The ability of conservatives everywhere to find something to be offended by truly inspires.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah, you have no idea. They're crying out that their free speech is being taken away, because supposedly they're forced to use the Gendersternchen. And they do that, while they are enacting laws to prohibit government institutions (including schools and such) to use gendered language. It is so ridiculously dumb.

[-] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

Given where it is in the thread, I think it's supposed to be a reference to an ancient meme rather than that.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I completely glossed over the hunter2 joke, and rather just wanted to make my own joke.

[-] quantenzitrone@lemmings.world 3 points 1 year ago

one * is enough for an all gender glob

[-] match@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago
[-] quantenzitrone@lemmings.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

this would be regular expression not glob tho

i think Gendersternchen is closer to globbing than to regex

[-] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Brilliant, I love it.

All the better for your explanation!

[-] zxqwas@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Oh, right, I didn't even acknowledge the hunter2 joke. I just wanted to make a joke of my own.

[-] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Orc@ for me

[-] cosmicrose@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago

I keep all my genders and related information in KeePronounXC, which stores my pronouns in an encrypted format locally. It also lets me generate new, complex genders so I can use a unique one per relationship.

[-] Huschke@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

As long as you're following the 3-2-1 rule, I see no problem with storing your genders locally.

[-] match@pawb.social 6 points 1 year ago

my pronouns have a public key to allow others to recognize me consistently but also a private key that reflects a deep understanding of the factors that generate that public key

[-] quantenzitrone@lemmings.world 3 points 1 year ago

For extra security you should also be Genderfluid for every relationship that supports it. Either by using Time-based One Time Pronouns or even more secure with a Hardware Token using the WebGendn Protocol to authenticate via Public-Private-Gender-Encryption.

[-] deuleb_biezelbob@programming.dev 37 points 1 year ago

still crackable with rainbow-tables

[-] lolola 34 points 1 year ago

I prefer a gender-phrase, a complex sequence of words that's easier to remember and more secure than a single gender-word.

For example, contrast "female" with "do all the guys you know wear dresses and makeup like this?"

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"do all the guys you know wear dresses and makeup like this"

Femboy erasure :(

[-] dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago

My pronouns are "I" and "me". I should probably get that changed.

[-] watersnipje 15 points 1 year ago

Yes, I think I should.

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

There's the sort of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!

[-] finn_der_mensch@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 year ago

Just use a pronoun manager. That also makes it easier to use a different one for each domain

whats the master pronoun though?

[-] renzev@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

This post reminds me of those "attack helicopter" jokes from 2016, except this time it's actually funny and not hurtful

[-] lugal@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

I'm not a cis man but a "c!s m4n"

[-] crawancon@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago
[-] WiseWoodchuck@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Where should I hide my pr0n? Dm-crypt? The safety passphrase is BSDjailMeDaddy.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago
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