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[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

People can tell on a subconscious level. It's all in the mannerisms and cultural subtleties. "You didn't notice, but your brain did"

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Wait, can you tell the gender of the person of every post you read?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I don't talk like a man, and I don't talk like a woman. People are only used to hearing men and women talk. That's the scope of their experience talking to human beings. Which means that I don't sound human. I sound like some kind of bizarre alien intelligence. It's scary for these people.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

You're making an assertion that people can identify specific personal details over text, but somehow we still need to use a /S to identify sarcasm because text doesn't convey tone or body language. That requires some pretty heavy backup.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

You know how some people have imaginary friends? I think you have imaginary enemies.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Most people on lemmy, reddit, etc just assume you're a man until you say otherwise. It constantly happens to me, a woman.

I hate to break it to you, but you sound just like every gendered person on the planet. No difference in the way you speak on here from men or women.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You're also a fool, because you think that you can perceive all subconscious influences on your mind. That's the opposite of what subconscious means.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Following your train of tought maybe you are dismissing her opinion because you inconsciously percieve that she's a woman

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There you go again, dismissing my opinion because a nonbinary person said it. I'm nonbinary and I have opinions, so they must be wrong. You don't even bother to invent a reason to disagree, you just dismiss me out of hand. I'm not even worth your time to invent an excuse to take me unseriously.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No, I actually thought you were joking. I think people are pretty ordinary and can't telepathically tell that stuff in text. I bet you can't deduce my gender, orientation, race, hair color, and name. I assume this because I didn't tell you any of these things.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Poe's law, so hard right now. I actually assume everyone on Lemmy is a man until they say otherwise, because Lemmy is tech people and tech is sadly like that.