• Allero@lemmy.today
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      2 months ago

      Any generalization of this kind, positive or negative, struggles to capture individuality.

      It’s stupid to argue “men are deeply emotional as a group, because some poet was male”

      It’s equally stupid to argue “men are dangerous as a group, because some rapist was male”

      Men, and women, are all different, and there is so much more variability within each gender than between them.

      • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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        1 month ago

        Yeah, I understand that gender goes beyond this pink and blue “men are like this, women are like this” bullshit.

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        1 month ago

        Sort of hard to reconcile how similar humans are to each other while exclaiming we are all snowflakes too.

    • shalafi@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      In 1989 I translated Sweet Child of Mine into French for my girlfriend. Poetry! So stick that in your pipe and smoke it.

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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      Yep. And no one cared. Why any of the many women who asked me out, I’ve no clue. I can tame hummingbirds, crows, and coyotes accidentally. No one cares.