• UninterestingVoid@reddthat.com
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          Tbh I just don’t like genders from how many problems and discrimination people create around the for no reason.

          they are also lies from toilet companies to sell more toilets

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          I find the core concept of selecting a predefined “gender” from the vast spectrum of experience extremely limiting, emotional association with a particular pidgeonhole disregulating, and the constructs themselves clearly in service of an oppressive society rather than the individuals trying to navigate it. Big ups to the trans homies who subverted the gender binary enough to get us here. We’re living in dystopia, if you aren’t a little dysphoric you’re part of the problem. Big-titty lumberjacks and barbies with balls are all welcome at my not at all creepy undisclosed location. Switching sides and defining smaller and smaller facets to identify with were at one point revolutionary acts, but imo the work’s not done until parents have a hard time explaining to their kids what a gender was

          fake e: the blurred lines and ironically recursive definitions in the meme we’re conversing under are exactly the subversive deconstruction I’m into

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    I get it, but seriously, why is it tomboy for girls and femboy for guys?

    Shouldn’t it be like, tomboy for girls and Janegirl for guys?

    It’s not that I care an awful lot, it’s that the thought crossed my mind and I had to share it or I would explode.

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      Sallygirl is the original counterpart before it fell out of use in favor of a slur (s***y) because tomboy was ok but sallygirl was discouraged. Tomgirl is more like futch or girly tomboy. Femboy is a more recent coining that doesn’t have a counterpart because we still have tomboy

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        I’m a bit of an outsider, so sorry if this is not appropriate. But I feel like “tomboy” is the wrong one to map to the opposite gender, as femboy is more descriptive: easier to understand Before knowing the word. So rather than suggesting to change femboy to sallygirl (or similar), would changing tomboy to “mascgirl” be more appropriate? Feel free to change my mind

        • JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          We’re not even talking about changing anything. Just let people use the labels they feel fit them. I’m sharing the history I experienced pre-internet.

          Tomboy and Sallygirl were coined together first and I read them in a yellowed readers digest type magazine in the upstairs bathroom at my grandparents house while I was small.

          How dare you say I piss on the poor.

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        Wikipedia gives Janegirl rather than Sallygirl, but they may be wrong. Yet I haven’t met any of this words in real life. I find both cuter than s***y which come with so much other meanings…

        • JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          Janegirl was still coined later using Tomgirl as a reference point. It’s also a bit regional but all referencing Fun with Dick and Jane.