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So, ~~this is~~ I have a dumb joke and need to explain far too much for it to be funny, but don't think that would stop me:
In German, we do this thing where nouns for jobs have gender, so a male teacher is a "Lehrer" and a female teacher is a "Lehrerin".
Now, if you want to refer to any teacher independent of gender, traditionally you used the male form.
This was found to bias people to more readily employ men, worsening gender inequality. So, we started writing things as "Lehrer/in" to show that both genders are meant.
Then several more genders got released, so to show that non-binaries are also included, we came up with the Gendersternchen™: Lehrer*in
It's the ~~cousin of Rumpelstilzchen~~ "gender asterisk" and very popular with the conservatives, I can assure you.
Anyways, the dumb joke is that therefore ******* is the gender that's so fluid, they had to just make it a bunch of Gendersternchen. 🙃
I admire the dedication of providing all the context for this joke, and it's amazing.
But does that imply not only the gender is fluid, but also the profession? 🤔
Gig economy contract work
i need a whole lemmy community of non-English language jokes highly explained to me in translation please
The ability of conservatives everywhere to find something to be offended by truly inspires.
Oh yeah, you have no idea. They're crying out that their free speech is being taken away, because supposedly they're forced to use the Gendersternchen. And they do that, while they are enacting laws to prohibit government institutions (including schools and such) to use gendered language. It is so ridiculously dumb.
Given where it is in the thread, I think it's supposed to be a reference to an ancient meme rather than that.
Yeah, I completely glossed over the hunter2 joke, and rather just wanted to make my own joke.
one * is enough for an all gender glob
lehrer.*in
this would be regular expression not glob tho
i think Gendersternchen is closer to globbing than to regex
Brilliant, I love it.
All the better for your explanation!
I would have guessed https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hunter2
Oh, right, I didn't even acknowledge the hunter2 joke. I just wanted to make a joke of my own.