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Trick question, washing machines come in many different genders:
I thought pans came in many different genders
Bi only in two.
Only the first two are genders. The others are psychological illnesses
Edit: /s
found the transphobe
Sorry if my intent wasn’t clear but I wanted to make fun of the transphobic meme
I don’t think that saying there are more than two genders is transphobic… saying the others are psychological illnesses, however…
I was making fun of the concept that there are only 2 genders by applying it to the washing information but I see that this wasn’t obvious
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Die Waschmaschine die
Die Bart die
No one who speaks German could be an evil man.
Gut ausgedrückt.
Ich kenne die Szene, danke.
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Waschmaschine:*
Das ist die Kleidung der Waschmaschine
Ich stehe auf der Waschmaschine
German grammar cannot be trusted
If you get the wrong one just accuse the examiner of being transphobic.
please no baiting trans folk
What a transphobic thing to say.
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Man… This post going over lots of heads.
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Don’t bite the bait pls, reporting in this case is best course of action. Thanks
Sorry you’re being downvoted, I think you’re entirely correct. I hope the other people just don’t realize how jokes that are relativising transphobic experiences like that are downplaying the actual issues trans people are facing.
I wish we would live in a world where we could just crack jokes involving trans people like we do with everything else.
itl be definitely be nice when lgbtq doesn’t need to be a social movement, or a political opinion, just a normal thing in life.
We can, but we have to work for it. When any group is no longer being systemically discriminated and have equal rights, then they’re also valid comedy targets.
Like with racist jokes. They’re fine in very confined groups where everyone agrees that the absurdity of the premise is part of the joke and where nobody will be made to feel unsafe by it. But to a wider audience where people might misunderstand where the joke came from, in what spirit it was told in, it’s nok OK. Not only can it make people from the group being targeted feel unsafe, but it’ll also embolden actual racists who’ll mistake the joke as support of their beliefs.
It’s a trust thing I guess. As soon as trans people can see someone crack a joke about them online and rest assured in the fact that the person telling that joke isn’t voting for or otherwise enabling people who wants to take away their rights or straight up hurt them, then it’ll be fine.
This protection, however, should not apply to people who make it their business to hurt or oppress other people, which is why it’s always open season on nazis.
My thoughts exactly.
But nobody is downplaying it? Yes Trans people face a lot of issues and they really need to be supported in many ways, but I don’t think this joke insinuates any of that.
I do think that comparing a non native speaker using the wrong article with trans people having to fear for their lives sometimes is downplaying it. I don’t think that was the intent with the original comment, which is why I also don’t appreciate the other person’s snappy response. But I do believe those kinds of jokes can subconsciously make people believe things aren’t as bad as they actually are.
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First of all, pretty much anything is political.
Second, I’m not the one to pull transphobia into the context. The joke did that on its own.
Third, I’m looking to have a civil discussion, you’re the one exaggerating things and starting drama by throwing profanities around and accusing me of virtue signalling.
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that would be true in a world without bigotry.
This is my go to response when people are trying to claim that English is hard… Well at least I don’t have to remember what gender has randomly been assigned to every noun I want to use.
No, instead you have to learn to read and spell in a system that often sounds quite different to what is written. I want to read a book that’s never been read. I want to live a life alive at a live show. Anything ending in ~ough which has something like 6 or 8 different sounds. I’m a native speaker trying to work with my wife on English (we speak Japanese at home). It’s insane for any reading/spelling.
Are you through laughing at the English kneading dough in a trough, though?
As soon as I stop hiccoughing and cut this bough
*needing to laugh
Oh yeah, unlike French where 2/3 of each word is silent.
I think liason is the harder part about trying to transcribe someone’s spoken words as a new learner without a good grasp on vocabulary.
At least with French, a lot of those silent letters are a lot more predictable than English. English has French borrowings (from two different time periods), Latin borrowings (some of which were borrowed via Norman or Old French first), Greek, Germanic, etc. and we did various levels of preserving the native spelling. This is neat for etymology and maybe figuring out a word one doesn’t know, but kinda sucks for spelling. A lot of words from Normal and Old French are now spelled differently in modern Parisian, but the more recent loans are closer. It’s a hot mess.
