• Dipbeneaththelasers@lemmy.today
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    3 months ago

    “Beryl? Even our Hurricanes are gender non-binary now.”

    That’s what he said in response to the National Hurricane Center posting the latest satellite image of the storm.

    It’s not nonsense. It’s a sustained attack on both people and science. This kind of message brings the science deniers and bigots closer together, helping to shore up that base and give it common ground.

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    3 months ago

    I kinda want to start a fake movement to rename hurricanes as “themicanes”, just to piss off dipshit goobers like this.

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    3 months ago

    A couple of things:

    1. I’ve only ever heard Beryl as a woman’s name, although I don’t see a problem with a man or a nonbinary person using it. It’s a bizarre claim though. It’s like saying Mary is a ‘nonbinary name.’ Technically true because Donald is also a nonbinary name for the same reason.

    More importantly though…

    1. Hurricanes don’t have a fucking gender.
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      3 months ago

      I would not say the most prominent LGBT+ news outlet is trolling. They report on bigotry. It’s part of their job.

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          They already have power and queer people need to know when that power is wielded against them. That nonbinary people are becoming as big a target as trans people is something that people, especially nonbinary people, need to stay informed about.

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      3 months ago

      Wouldn’t their title be Monarch Beryl then? Also it would kinda fit in Sailor Moon since we had Uranus and Neptune being roommates together.

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      Coercive human gender norms are to be consigned to the dustbin of history, either through progress or via the self-extinction of humanity. Whichever comes first.

  • FuzzyRedPanda@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    It’s always a little disturbing when clearly the headline must be from The Onion…but then it’s not.