@[email protected] responded to a meme about swarmgenders to call me a troll for being nonbinary. Out of curiosity, I tried an experiment, and asked if there are any xenogenders they respect. They responded by saying it’s “over the line” of made up specialist [sic] snowflake shit.

Make no mistake: This is the average view of people who yell about how xenogender people are “trolls”.

          • DroneRights [it/its]@lemm.eeOPM
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            1 year ago

            Well, you read the webpage. You know swarms are natural, inspiring, nonbinary, and real. What’s hard to swallow about that? Seems it has a great deal of similarity with binary human gender roles, in terms of the social structure of what it means to be a gender.

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              1 year ago

              I don’t think anyone is doubting swarms existing in nature. As a human gender though…

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                Okay but you haven’t actually explained what’s hard to believe. You’ve just vaguely gestured at the whole thing and expressed incredulity. Can you explain what specifically is hard to buy?

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                  It’s hard to believe it as a real human gender. Why? It just sounds ridiculous. Doesn’t go much deeper than that.

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                    Do you just find the idea of all genders other than male and female hard to believe? And if not, what’s a nonbinary gender you do believe in? (Note that identities like genderfluid or bigender aren’t genders themselves, they’re combinations of actual genders. And agender isn’t a gender either)