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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Sort of off topic. But if you are putting a disclaimer that something is "gender neutral", just use a different word. Y'all? Fam? ๐Ÿ˜‚

For those that say these are inherently gender neutral, how many bros have you slept with? Would you sleep with a man? This is all literally patriarchy. Male isn't the "default" human experience.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Bro and dude have effectively become gender neutral for referring to someone. It's not patriarchy, it's how a language evolves.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I fuck bros all the time but I'm gay and non-binary

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Genuine question because that confused the heck out of my brain.

What does gay and non-binary together mean? Are you only attracted to other non-binary people?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I had a straight non-binary friend once; ze was small and androgynous and ze would generally date "lumberjack witch" enbies or other people who were differently gendered from zir.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

uh, I definitely want to sleep with my bro's

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Your argument doesn't really work, because 'bro' isn't a word used to describe sex partners, in the same vein, you would never say "I've slept with the boys", but you could use the sentence "I was hanging out with the boys".

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Sure, I'm not really trying to play a semantics game so much as call attention to the fact that these are inherently gendered terms. If you were to say "hanging out with the girls (gender neutral)" or say "hanging out with the boys (gender neutral)", you are just being awkward and should just change the word.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What are you on about? There's not even a male pronoun in the whole post

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Look at Tumblr post #5 in the image.