In the background is a store with a window display, slowly revealed as the comic progresses. From right to left: Close-ups of enormous fruit (berries, a banana, a kiwi) sitting or floating over a bed of ice, with water and juice splashing dynamically upwards.

A closely-cropped image of a woman’s face, so we just see one eye and the corner of her mouth. One hand is on her cheek. Her lips and nails are icy pink. The transom above the door has an exotic flower decal.

On the front door, in an artsy font treatment, it says: “Are we a smoothie shoppe? A NAIL salon? A DISPENSARY? YOU DON’T KNOW!”

    • FoxyFerengi@startrek.website
      11·
      2 days ago

      When I was going through evaluation to start hormonal transition my primary care doc’s nurse asked me to explain what non-binary is, and when I figured it out. I explained the things I told the doctor who evaluated me, thinking that if it was good enough for her, it should be good enough for this nurse.

      My nurse told me I just hate the patriarchy and that’s why I hate myself. Lol

    • kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Dysphoria, and therefore trans people, would exist without gender. Gender definitely doesn’t help, though, and we should stop it.

    • Soup@lemmy.world
      91·
      2 days ago

      Makes it easier to put people into boxes, especially when you want to subjugate one of those boxes because a lame, immature personality isn’t doing it anymore. If it was just a biological thing then people wouldn’t care as much and if you could do a thing then you could the thing, but that doesn’t give men the ability to gaslight and manipulate women into being easy fuck-toys and house servants.

      I’m a man, and while I’m ashamed of men in general I’m damn fucking proud of the fact that whatever I’m doing is a step in the right direction, far away from what too many of us are still doing.

    • ryannathans@aussie.zone
      91·
      2 days ago

      Definitions of sex and gender diverged in the 60s and 70s in academia and in the 80s and 90s third wave feminist Judith Butler popularised the concept of gender

    • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
      52·
      2 days ago

      To be fair, it’s easy: a baby is born with a penis (male) or without (female). That’s not terribly complicated, so naturally we categorize them as such. We do love categorizing things. But the problem only comes in when we refuse to admit that maybe, just maybe, we were wrong and not willing to admit it and fix it.

      Science, religion, and politics: these are all things we think we know everything about, but really we don’t know shit.

      And somewhere along the way we’ve convinced ourselves that acknowledging we don’t know everything is somehow a weakness, and weakness is the ultimate sin.

      Yet, the truly brave are the ones who can readily admit they were wrong and are willing to do the work to adjust their way of thinking based on new information.

      They stay may get it wrong, and that’s okay. At least they’re trying.