• MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I like the idea of pirating my gender. Sounds like I pilfered someone’s penis. Which is just an objectively fun sentence to say.

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      No, you misunderstand how pirating works.

      You find yourself someone with a working set of genitalia that may or may not have been slightly tampered with, you click and in an unspecified amount of time you have those genitalia working on your system (may require some fiddling with the settings).

      After all this you can redistribute your genitalia to whoever requests this for as long as you are willing to provide them, or even stop your own distribution without losing acces to operate it and fiddle with it at will.

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    Government issued and it was bloat AND it was proprietary gender. I don’t want any gender without access to the source, and the freedom to use, copy, modify, and redistribute (even charging a price) said gender as I wish.

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        If it doesn’t respect the Four Essential Freedoms of Free Gender it is not Free and Open Source Gender.

        -The freedom to use the gender as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).

        -The freedom to study how the gender works, and change it so it does behave as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

        -The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others (freedom 2).

        -The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

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          3 months ago

          This is brilliant, I love it. It’s a joke, but it actually captures my experience of my assigned gender at birth perfectly.

  • Luna@lemdro.id
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    3 months ago

    I replaced my old proprietary gender with a free and open source one

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    It was freeware, but a nightmare to install. I learned several new languages that weren’t even necessary in the end. There was no wiki, just disparate posts on decade old forums, most of which were misinformation. Definitely a learning experience.

  • TriflingToad@lemmy.world
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    hmm. I was assigned m but I think I prefer she/her but being female isn’t actually something I want to be. Tbh my online friends calling me Toad makes me happier than either gender. So in short my gender is me.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I derived mine through scientific observation the way we detect black holes through the behaviors of nearby bodies (or through gravitational lensing and accretion discs).

    Gender is very important to some people. We see this with trans folk who will suffer social stigmatization, take hormones and undergo medical procedures to identify as a gender they weren’t assigned at birth. We see this with alpha males who do not feel masculine enough, no matter how big the bumper nuts on their wide-bed SUV.

    I don’t feel this at all. I have an [M] on my state ID. My body has the boy bits, but meh. As a young adult, I thought I just was confident in my masculinity, only I didn’t do anything that was particularly masculine.

    As a kid, to man up was to take care of business. These days, it seems it might have been related to pony up which is to pay the ante, since it often is about paying bills. But I was taught this was expected of everyone who was an adult, and is in fact called adulting to make sure bills are paid and household chores are managed enough to keep the larder full, the dishes clean and the elements and pests out. (Sometimes adulting was calling the utility company and asking them to please wait since I don’t have the money yet. It still counts.)

    Also in my youth, we had Cold War notions of manhood, which was the capacity to have unthinkable levels of violent power that you never use in any untoward fashion. Nukes were the ur-example, and guns were the obvious domestic example, but the gun was one of a dozen power tools that were only to be used with full safety precautions for their intended purpose.

    But now, these days, gun owners believe the second amendment to the Constitution of the United States gives them the right to shoot people they don’t like, and our elected officials act like children on the floor of their respective parliamentary halls and Dick Cheney shot judge Harry Whittington, and Whittington apologized to Cheney because WTF?

    So I’m enby: don’t care. There are no characteristics or traits I can imagine one sex should have that the other sex shouldn’t. I am the black hole that no-one would notice except for all the stars.

  • (⬤ᴥ⬤)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    one night i was pondering gender stuff because my internet circle became queer enough that out became common to see chosen genders around and i thought that i didn’t want to be a girl, being a guy was fine, but i would like to be a creature.
    and now i’m he/they :3

    so, uh. software update ig

  • squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Incompatibilities between hardware and software caused data corruption. This resulted in hangups and increasingly frequent crashes. It was necessary to download a new gender, which is currently being installed.