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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just use a pronoun manager. That also makes it easier to use a different one for each domain

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

whats the master pronoun though?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

This post reminds me of those "attack helicopter" jokes from 2016, except this time it's actually funny and not hurtful

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (3 children)

My pronouns are "I" and "me". I should probably get that changed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

There's the sort of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Yes, I think I should.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

That's like, the most commonly used.

Brb, I'm just stealing your identity before you get round to changing that.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

still crackable with rainbow-tables

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

LGBT: brute forcing new ~~passwords~~ pronouns every day

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Where should I hide my pr0n? Dm-crypt? The safety passphrase is BSDjailMeDaddy.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Orc@ for me

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What sort of gender is *******?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

So, ~~this is~~ I have a dumb joke and need to explain far too much for it to be funny, but don't think that would stop me:

In German, we do this thing where nouns for jobs have gender, so a male teacher is a "Lehrer" and a female teacher is a "Lehrerin".

Now, if you want to refer to any teacher independent of gender, traditionally you used the male form.
This was found to bias people to more readily employ men, worsening gender inequality. So, we started writing things as "Lehrer/in" to show that both genders are meant.

Then several more genders got released, so to show that non-binaries are also included, we came up with the Gendersternchen™: Lehrer*in

It's the ~~cousin of Rumpelstilzchen~~ "gender asterisk" and very popular with the conservatives, I can assure you.

Anyways, the dumb joke is that therefore ******* is the gender that's so fluid, they had to just make it a bunch of Gendersternchen. 🙃

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Given where it is in the thread, I think it's supposed to be a reference to an ancient meme rather than that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I completely glossed over the hunter2 joke, and rather just wanted to make my own joke.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

i need a whole lemmy community of non-English language jokes highly explained to me in translation please

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Anyways, the dumb joke is that therefore ******* is the gender that’s so fluid, they had to just make it a bunch of Gendersternchen

I admire the dedication of providing all the context for this joke, and it's amazing.

But does that imply not only the gender is fluid, but also the profession? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

not only the gender is fluid, but also the profession?

Gig economy contract work

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Oh, right, I didn't even acknowledge the hunter2 joke. I just wanted to make a joke of my own.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's the ~~cousin of Rumpelstilzchen~~ "gender asterisk" and very popular with the conservatives, I can assure you.

The ability of conservatives everywhere to find something to be offended by truly inspires.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Oh yeah, you have no idea. They're crying out that their free speech is being taken away, because supposedly they're forced to use the Gendersternchen. And they do that, while they are enacting laws to prohibit government institutions (including schools and such) to use gendered language. It is so ridiculously dumb.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

one * is enough for an all gender glob

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

this would be regular expression not glob tho

i think Gendersternchen is closer to globbing than to regex

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Brilliant, I love it.

All the better for your explanation!

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