Olgratin_Magmatoe

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[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

My understanding (and it could be incorrect) is that this is more of a definitional/philosophical thing.

Though you are more than welcome to read directly from the source Judith Butler who (to my understanding) first started this theory on gender:

https://www.amherst.edu/system/files/media/1650/butler_performative_acts.pdf

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 22 points 7 hours ago (6 children)

Stealing the answer because I'm nowhere near as articulate on this matter:

The basic (and simplified) idea is that gender--what we think of as masculine and/or feminine--is performed in the ways we act, speak, dress, move, etc. and doesn't really exist outside of that performance. We learn how to perform this way from dominant culture and conventions--what someone might (incorrectly) call "normal male" or "normal female" behavior. But these "normal" qualities (and genders themselves) don't actually exist--rather, we are all repeatedly mimicking them and are rewarded for doing so (or punished for not doing so). We merely impersonate the qualities we've been taught match the gender we've been told we possess (like females being demure or males being aggressive) until those impersonations (and gender itself) become belief and seen as something natural and assumed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/4dddcq/eli5butlers_gender_performativity/

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 46 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

It doesn't even stop any other abortions though. It actually increases the number of abortions.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 19 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

If only this could have been predicted. Oh wait, it was.

https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/this-is-not-about-covid19-but-another

It's never about protecting the unborn, its about punishing and controlling women.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 3 points 12 hours ago

Propaganda and use of lies

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

an image, a video, a piece of text, etc. that is passed very quickly from one internet user to another

This still fits even with the context.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 4 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

It is actually:

Meme - noun

  1. an idea that is passed from one member of society to another, not in the genes but often by people copying it
  • Other cultures have similar versions of this meme.
  • the political and cultural memes of the 21st century
  1. an image, a video, a piece of text, etc. that is passed very quickly from one internet user to another, often with slight changes that make it humorous
  • an internet meme/a blog meme

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/meme

It's a meme in the same sense that some SCPs are described as memetic. Being humorous is not a requirement, though it is often the intention.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 57 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Daily reminder slavery is still legal in the U.S.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Between that, the discrepancy of the eyebrows, and the discrepancy of the backpack thing, so much of this doesn't add up. Not guilty.

They can't stop us from loving him.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 16 points 2 days ago

Luigi did it, and he really was that stupid.

Given that he was valedictorian at his school, I find that unlikely to be the option.

I think you're missing a 4th option:

  • He did it, and believed it not worth the anxiety/suffering of living the rest of his life as a wanted man, so did what he could to get away from the immediate scene but ultimately turn himself in so to speak.

And there are almost certainly more nuanced options out there.

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