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[–]Rasalom72 5 points6 points7 points 9 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link
DID YOU JUST ASSUME MY GENDER?!?!
[+]khal_09 points 9 years ago [recovered] (1 child) | Copy Link
I am sorry if you feel offended but those were not my intentions. Best, khal_09!
[–]Anonymous--Rex 2 points3 points4 points 9 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link
I know you're just figuratively nodding politely, but I'm pretty sure that was a joke.
[–]fengpi 1 point2 points3 points 9 years ago* (0 children) | Copy Link
I don't identify as MALE today, bigot. How dare you. On Mondays, I'm a coal-fired steamboat! Toot! Toot! All aboard for Halifax!
Also, your link don't work.
[–]fengpi 1 point2 points3 points 9 years ago (3 children) | Copy Link
Also, you know that everyone is going to assume that a character with an androgynous name diagnosed with anorexia is going to be female. Are you trying to see if everyone assumes that?
[–][deleted] 2 points3 points4 points 9 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link
Dwight Schrute: Okay. A man and a son get into a car accident, they're rushed to the hospital. Doctor says, 'there's no way I can operate on this boy-- Ryan: Because he's my son. The doctor is the boy's mother. Dwight Schrute: A man is found hanging from the ceiling- Ryan: He stepped on a block of ice, hung himself and the ice melted. Dwight Schrute: A hunter- Ryan: It's a polar bear because you're at the North Pole. Dwight Schrute: DAMMIT!
Dwight Schrute: Okay. A man and a son get into a car accident, they're rushed to the hospital. Doctor says, 'there's no way I can operate on this boy--
Ryan: Because he's my son. The doctor is the boy's mother.
Dwight Schrute: A man is found hanging from the ceiling-
Ryan: He stepped on a block of ice, hung himself and the ice melted.
Dwight Schrute: A hunter-
Ryan: It's a polar bear because you're at the North Pole.
Dwight Schrute: DAMMIT!
[–]Meyright 0 points1 point2 points 9 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link
I didn't
[–]fengpi 0 points1 point2 points 9 years ago* (0 children) | Copy Link
Well, look, rightly or wrongly, there are certain conditions that get associated more with one sex than the other and its an understandable kind of assumption to make. Men can get breast cancer, but when I say "Pat was screened for breast cancer" people tend not to assume that it's Patrick who was screened or if I were to say "Yeong-su is going bald" people tend to not assume that Yeong-su is female even though she might be. The creative avoidance of resolving this kind of ambiguity is the source of the humor with Julia Sweeny's SNL character "Pat."
When applied to things rather than to people, this is considered a kind of rational Bayesian reasoning but when you apply it to people, now your calculated guess is suddenly "ZOMG STEREOTYPING!1! GOTCHA!" and when a car-bomb goes-off in Madrid nowadays, it's Islamophobic if you don't instantly assume that it's Basque separatists doing stuff they haven't done in 35 years.
It reminds me of one episode of "The Young Ones" where Neil was writing a letter to his banker prefacing it with "Dear Sir," angering his proto-SJW roommate Rik.
Rik: Hah! And what makes you think your bank manager's a man?!
Neil: His beard.
[–][deleted] 0 points1 point2 points 9 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link
Quite obviously, Terry is a woman.
[–]bobisanmra 0 points1 point2 points 9 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link
There's no choice for not assuming a gender for terry. The gender of a person doesn't matter to me when I decide to help them or not. This survey is forcing me to decide on a gender where I would not. Very misleading results will come from this I think.
[–]tritisan 0 points1 point2 points 9 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link
Are we hugging server to death?
[–]TheExplodingKitten 0 points1 point2 points 9 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link
I think the link is broken.
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[–]Rasalom72 5 points6 points7 points (2 children) | Copy Link
[+]khal_09 points [recovered] (1 child) | Copy Link
I am sorry if you feel offended but those were not my intentions. Best, khal_09!
[–]Anonymous--Rex 2 points3 points4 points (0 children) | Copy Link
[–]fengpi 1 point2 points3 points (0 children) | Copy Link
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[–]Meyright 0 points1 point2 points (1 child) | Copy Link
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