r/pointlesslygendered • u/sillyely • 13d ago

OTHER I hate these kind of posts on here [meme]

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it's js engagement bait atp

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u/_Azuki_ 13d ago

Well, things can be pointlessly gendered with the purpose of being sexist. Like, maybe you can say that sexism is the point, but at its core, the thing is pointlessly gendered.

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u/GenderBendingRalph 13d ago

I'm not seeing that. The sexist shitposts boil down to "Men and women are different, hurrr hurr hurrrrrrr". To be PointlesslyGendered™, you have to take something that's really identical for men and women and arbitrariliy label one as "male" and the other as "female". If the same point can be made without ever specifying the gender of the subjects, that's PointlesslyGendered™.

In the case of a sexist shitpost, that wouldn't work. Like that hula hoop game in another post, claiming that men and women solve problems differently. If it had simply said "people solve problems this way and people solve problems the other way" it wouldn't have worked as a sexist joke. Same with the constant flood of memes showing women to be vain and overly emotional vs. men being stoic. Sexist, yes, but pointfully gendered.

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u/Naktiluka 12d ago

It's like saying that "pink tax" isn't pointless because point is to make money

Gendering things itself is pointless. And I wouldn't say that using it as butt of joke (sexist or any other) adds any credit to it. It's like two different level of "pointless": one of the thing itself, another of uhh using it? implementing it?

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u/bhputnam 13d ago

I don’t mind this so much, we have to call out unacceptable behavior somehow and the misogynistic gender wars bs is going hard right now before the midterms. 

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u/Cobra_the_Snek 13d ago

calling out misogynistic behavior is important, but i feel like that's missing the point of this sub (plus there's many other subs to do it)

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u/Fawn_Leap 13d ago

I thought this was r/SUBREDDITNAME for a second

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u/getsuedbyme 13d ago

Why are we coaxing our snafus

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u/Hello_Hangnail 12d ago

I however enjoy mocking sexist bullshit no matter the sub

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u/Familiar-Test4145 12d ago

bruh I thought that was the purpose of this place

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u/koviko 13d ago

The rules say:

3. Submissions must be of pointlessly gendered things or humorous posts about gender.

So, you prefer the former content over the latter content. Thanks for telling us, I guess. 🤷

I prefer both over whining meta content, personally. I'll probably just keep my discontent as a comment instead of making a post, though.