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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Be nice. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements to private messages.
  7. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Hunter, huntress, huntsman

Waiter, waitress, waitsman

Actor, actress, actsman

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nobody says waitman or actsman. I had to fight my phone’s autocorrect just to type those.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No one uses Wifman and Werman anymore either. Doesn't make them any less some of the last gendered nouns for humans, in English, since if one goes back that far man is neutral gendered, and while woman exists, it's for a woman that is a spinster.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 10 points 1 year ago

Consider that German and French gender basically everything. Your desk has a gender in those languages. English is almost genderless on comparison.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Interestingly, as the language has evolved, words like "actress" are falling out of favor. So there are times when non-gendered is preferred for the sake of equality.

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz -4 points 1 year ago

Drag agrees. Drag is spreading knowledge of male gendered words in order to counteract the myth that the normal versions of the words are gendered. If someone tells drag that "actor" is for men, drag points out the existence of "actsman". Actor is a gender neutral term and we need to use linguistics to make people realise it sooner.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Aviator, aviatrix, aviatman.

Director, directrix, directman.

Executor, executrix, executman.

Chairman, chairwoman, chair.