• kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml
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    24 hours ago

    could just refer to himself as a person to make the meme not exclude people that are not men

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      24 hours ago

      Ask yourself: Would this meme have seemed sexist if it had said “between a girl and the ps2 game she grew up with”?

      Still specific. Somehow not “exclusive”. In my view, it’s just the noir trend of including pointed details to generate a firmer visual in people’s minds. He’s not drinking “a shot of liquor”, he’s drinking “a 4-year-old cognac that the bartender lied and said was 12 years”

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        24 hours ago

        Would this meme have seemed sexist if it had said “between a girl and the ps2 game she grew up with”?

        no, not sexist, but pointlessly gendered and excluding non-female people

        Still specific. Somehow not “exclusive”.

        yes it is

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      23 hours ago

      Why? Your misgendering him. He ID as a man therefore you refer to him as his preferred gender. Again this is authoritarian thinking.