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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The opposite of a man.

What is a man? A miserable pile of secrets.

Which makes a woman a joyous iota of public.

[–] DonGirses@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

But enough talk, have at you!

[–] GrymEdm@lemmy.world 119 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I remember an old 4chan joke from, I think, over a decade ago. It's an old memory so I hope I don't butcher it:

A 4chan user found a genie. He was tired of getting no action, so he told the genie his 1st wish was the ability to turn on sight that would let him see everyone willing to sleep with him. "Your wish is granted", replied the genie. "You can now close your eyes."

In the modern version I'd make it one of these misogynist assholes.

[–] cactus_head@programming.dev 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

A decade ago is 2014 so you(probably) mean two decades ago

[–] GrymEdm@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It's possible, I left 4chan a long time ago. I won't pretend it was ever a great place, but at least there were moments of entertaining randomness. Damn I'm old.

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[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 54 points 3 days ago (8 children)

"What's a woman?"

What's a man?

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 37 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] mckean@programming.dev 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] pro3757@programming.dev 19 points 3 days ago
[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 40 points 3 days ago (1 children)

A miserable pile of secrets.

[–] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

But enough talk, have at you!

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think the best response that's always worked for me is:

"Who cares!" Person riled up about this inclined to agree with me because they think I'm on the two genders "side of the debate". "Just try your best to call people what they want to be called and move on. If someone's name is x, try call them x, if they say 'I am a y', try calling them a y. If you get it wrong accidentally, oh well, just say sorry and try again. Why are we even still talking about this? It's such a non-issue"

Highly effective on those who aren't super conservative and just been swept up in the (in my opinion) astroturfed outrage.

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[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 50 points 4 days ago (4 children)

A miserable pile of secrets and lies. But enough talk, have at you!

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[–] vordalack@lemm.ee 25 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Sees woman in public

"Quick! Cover your mouth! That's how they get inside you to lay their eggs!"

[–] Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (3 children)

A woman is sugar and spice and everything nice. Until she is scorned. Then hell hath no fury.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I thought the first part only applied to little girls.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

an old cake still has the same ingredients in it.

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[–] whithom@discuss.online 31 points 4 days ago
[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 days ago (14 children)

Idk who is that, and probably is a moron.

But it is a genuinely good question: "what's a woman?" "what's a man?" "what's gender?"

Not an easy question, with not universally accepted answer.

[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 3 days ago

Honestly I think, as a cis man, cis people are probably very bad at answering the question.

humans tend ignore "harmony". When you walk through the field, do you look each blade of grass or at the cow? Do you feel "non-pain"? How could you possibly explain someone pain that doesn't know pain? Do you remember the last time, you sat next to your friend watching a show on tv, in the same detail, you remember the conflict/discussion that you had with them?

Generally we will remember and pay attention to the things that are "wrong".

If your gender is right for you, why would you pay attention? What would you even pay attention to?

If it is wrong for you, you feel the "pain", see the cow and remember the conflict.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago (60 children)

Outside of a philosophy discussion, it's not a genuinely good question because it is irrelevant to our daily lives. In any way that matters to society, a woman is a person who says they are a woman. It's that complicated.

[–] Mesa@programming.dev 11 points 3 days ago (13 children)

"Is irrelevant" and "should be irrelevant" are two different things. Fighting by saying the issues are not there—regardless of your actual opinion—has rarely, if ever, worked. It's the same as the "I don't see color" argument.

Also, why would we exclude philosophical discussion? The point is to make you think. I also don't know who this particular person is in the OP, but the question itself has no bias. Maybe this highlights our philosophical differences, but I firmly believe that understanding a system is the most crucial step to revolutionizing it.

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[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (5 children)

If the question is so irrelevant, why do you even try to answer it in the same comment? Not only answering it, but also making it a fact. As if your opinion is the only one that matters and suddenly it's irrelevant when there's a different opinion.

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[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It's interesting that this question seems to be some sort of gotcha that almost always a posted response is a snarky joke. Just makes me wonder how do those people define a woman.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The actual answer is that a woman is a person who identifies as a woman. What bugs me is that conservatives disagree vehemently, but they don't seem to have a consistent answer themselves

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago

Most of them appeal to "basic biology" but biology is anything but basic. Just because you learned about chromosomes in your high school biology course doesn't mean you're actually knowledgeable on the subject. It's much more complex than that. The best argument against this idea, in my opinion, is to bring up intersex people, which there's a huge variety of different conditions and always one that will contradict whatever they believe.

This is all ignoring the fact that none of this matters, so maybe it's best to not be baited into it at all. Gender is not something that needs some precise thing to point at. It's whatever we want it to be.

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