gender reveal parties, but a pendant shows up and explains it's meant to be a sex reveal party, but due to the more risque use of the word sex, and the ambigious uses of the word gender, communication about the motive of such things are difficult, and a feeding ground for pendants, people who have been marginalised, and oppressors.

I also don't know where I'm going with this. I'm not sure what my next task should be and I'm letting my mind percolate.

[–] Blahaj_Blast@lemmy.blahaj.zone 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Genital reveal party

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 day ago

It really is a genital reveal party... Never thought about it that way. Thanks!

[–] zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pedant here, use an Oxford comma.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

oxford deez nuts.

fixed it anyway.

[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Was it an opal pendant, or perhaps a cameo?

Also, I prefer French press over percolate.

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago

The time of the French press has passed. It's time for the percolator ( 16 years ago anyway).

[–] sleen@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ambiguous usage of the word is one of the reasons oppressors have such outdated and undereducated views. The less ambiguity the easier it can be explained to the common folk.

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The fun bit is that the word gender was pulled from linguistics into sociology exactly to try to make a less ambiguous situation.

It literally went "what if we talked about people having gender like the French talk about objects?” Much like people, a table is feminine in French regardless of if it has a penis or not.

Later, people decided to use gender as a synonym for sex and complain about using the word gender in a way that's ambiguous with sex.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 13 hours ago

a table is feminine in French regardless of if it has a penis or not.

Which most tables in France do, of course.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Gender has been conflated with human sex from the fifteenth century, but I like your explanation of the sociological application.

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Who invited the streaker to the gender reveal party?

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 day ago

Me. The last one was boring. And the one before that started a huge fire. Figured nudity was safer.