• yermaw@sh.itjust.works
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        4 days ago

        I always wondered what the answer was but never got round to looking it up. I thought there’s no way it can be such a famous sentence and have the answer be that fucking stupid.

        Maybe in the 60s or sometime when gender norms were more strictly enforced it would have been good?

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          It’s not about enforced gender norms but expectations, associations. And they still persist. The song “Draw me a person” by Kate Couriel discusses this quite good.

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          3 days ago

          So you thought it must be his mom but then said nah that can’t be it that’s too stupid?

          If so, that’s a good sign that the world has progressed. I was thinking recently how 99% of the time you hear the word “progress” it’s satiric and about knocking down your grandma’s house to build a data center or whatever. But actual progress can happen.

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      You mean in contrast to the doctor who fertilize women with “anonymous sperm donations” all anonymously donated by himself. True story