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Gender at the table (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago by PugJesus to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

"He's"

So Gender is male? Interesting.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Judith Butler has entered the chat

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Well associating pronouns with a certain gender is also a social construct, so it still tracks.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

At least right now

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

No, he's a robot.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Gender is no one's slave (other than for kinky reasons)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What does being a robot have to do with anything? He still has male pronouns.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago
  1. Robots presumably don't have a need to be gendered, at least in most portrayal of robots I've seen.
  2. The creator refered to it with a male pronouns, probably because their vision of the character have masculine features. That doesn't necessarily mean the character itself is male gendered.
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Could be the generic he too

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

But it's a specific he. It's referring to a specific person.

And why is a generic pronoun male?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The answer to your second question is that 'he' was historically used as generic pronouns, though it's not as acceptable nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

It still is in Spanish, language is weird

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, gender being a social construct doesn't mean everyone everywhere just suddenly becomes genderless androgynous blobs, we still express our gender in the ways we want to express them.

For example High heels, sheer leggings, long curly hair, and a flowy skirt and poofy blouse adorned with shiny bits. Am I describing the style dress of women today or the style of dress of 17th century French kings?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

spoilerTrick question, the answer is yes