Nonbinary (he/him) ∞

  • 3 Posts
  • 4 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
Cake day: June 10th, 2023
  • Silvally@beehaw.orgtoSocialism@beehaw.org•Risking arrest and assault, Israelis begin protesting Gaza war
    18·
    10 months ago

    That’s the difference between the two sides.

    When generalizing millions of people like you are, the amount of differences between one group of millions of people and another group of millions of people will be negligable compared to the amount of similarities they have. One similarity will be that any group of millions of people will in itself have varied opinions. The responses to this war are varied no matter what group of people we select. Your statement is wrong, unfair, and racist.

    For just one example of how you are wrong check out this article about a gathering of Muslim and Jewish women in the UK, united by their similarity of both their holy texts teaching “love thy neighbour” and a desire for peace.

    Many people on all sides want peace. We are similar, not different.

  • Silvally@beehaw.orgtoAskBeehaw@beehaw.org•What is unnecessary gendered?
    1·
    1 year ago

    I would argue everything. But I’ll focus on two things that immediately sprung to mind which people here have not yet mentioned:

    Children’s toys. So long as the toy is safe to play with, it should not matter what toy your child plays with. This especially bothers me since it’s often people’s very first experience with being unnecessarily gendered and being othered from their peers.

    Products for pets. Something like “pink is a colour for girls” is entirely a human social construct, and animals have 0 comprehension of this. I’ve heard stories of people getting admonished by complete strangers for putting pink collars on their male dogs.

    Edit: Removing my last paragraph since it was off-topic.