Joke or Not?

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Clarissa

July 17, 2017

People, you’ve got to help me out because I’m utterly lost. Is the following written as a joke? It sounds like a parody but the header on the website makes me wonder.

You may think it is of no importance whether you gender your pets but why would you do such a thing to such an important member of your life? Pets cannot speak for themselves. They cannot tell you that they are being misgendered. It’s important not to make assumptions about what gender your animal is based off of its sex.

I’ll try to stop posting for today but I can’t promise anything because the world is full of wonders.

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35 responses to “Joke or Not?”

Alex

July 17, 2017

I’m pretty sure that the person writing it is completely serious.

That doesn’t make it any less of a joke.

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1. Clarissa
  
  July 17, 2017
  
  I’m deeply scared of such people. Deeply.
  
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  1. David Gendron
    
    July 18, 2017
    
    https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/06/24/medusa-magazine-website-is-probably-a-hoax/
    
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xykademiqz

July 17, 2017

This hit Poe’s law:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

I wish it were satire and it could definitely be satire, but the author seems earnest.

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David Gendron

July 17, 2017

I identify myself as spider. Respect my spiderrific identity!

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1. Alex the Physicist
  
  July 17, 2017
  
  Are you dating a girl named Mary Jane?
  
  https://polldaddy.com/js/rating/rating.js
  
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2. cliff arroyo
  
  July 18, 2017
  
  “I identify myself as spider”
  
  Spider David Gendron, Spider David Gendron
  Does whatever a Spider wants to get done
  Spins a web, any size, Catches thieves just like flies
  Look Out! Here comes Spider David Gendron.
  
  Is he strong? Listen bud, He’s got radioactive blood.
  Can he swing from a thread Take a look overhead
  Hey, there There goes Spider David Gendron.
  
  In the chill of night At the scene of a crime
  Like a streak of light He arrives just in time.
  
  Spider David Gendron, Spider David Gendron
  Friendly neighborhood Spider David Gendron
  Wealth and fame, He’s ignored
  Action is his reward.
  
  To him, life is a great big bang up
  Wherever there’s a hang up
  You’ll find Spider David Gendron.
  
  I stand in proud solidarith trans-speciest Spider David Gendron and promise to never deadname him by omitting his Spider honorific. And if the occassion presents itself, I’ll throw him some dead flies to munch on.
  
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  1. Clarissa
    
    July 18, 2017
    
    Superfunny. 😁😁😁
    
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Anonymous

July 17, 2017

To me it looks to be a parody site, a social justice version of sites like Landover Baptist. https://medusamagazine.com/beyond-pro-choice-the-solution-to-white-supremacy-is-white-abortion

https://polldaddy.com/js/rating/rating.js

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Dreidel

July 17, 2017

Don’t you know by now that feminists never do satire?

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1. xykademiqz
  
  July 17, 2017
  
  eyeroll
  
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Shakti

July 17, 2017

Pets: for when you don’t have children to project all of your weird unresolved developmental stages upon!

Honestly, is this any weirder than neuticles?

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1. Clarissa
  
  July 17, 2017
  
  The best. 💖💖💖💖💖
  
  What’s neuticles?
  
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  1. Shakti
    
    July 17, 2017
    
    Neuticles are testicular implants for pets. It’s for pet owners who neuter their pets but are disturbed by the subsequent lack of balls.
    
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    1. Clarissa
      
      July 17, 2017
      
      No, this is not possible. I need to know this can’t be true. 😁😁😁
      
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DWeird

July 17, 2017

This is amazing. 😀

It’s a joke, though a very elaborate one, with great deadpan.

Here’s a quote from an article about how canker sores oppress women.

“I will admit I was not woke enough to know this was a problem until it was introduced to me by a friend of mine, Mager. He showed me an article saying that canker sores were more prevalent in females than males. While this itself does not seem to be a problem, upon further research, I realized that this is literally oppression. ”

Or a quote from an article about “fighting the patriarchy.”

“Your man won’t put the seat down? Time to fix that. Go to your local hardware store and pick up a big ol’ thing of superglue. Have some fun gluing the toilet seat down so that Mr. Jerkoff doesn’t have the opportunity to be inconsiderate. Check. Another one down.”

What clinches it most for me, though, is the… advertisements shown on their webpage. As image-conscious as the writers and hosts are portrayed to be, they would not let stuff like “The cameraman captured more than he expected” or “These pictures are just for the guys” fly.

Thanks for linking to this, really brightened my day.

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1. Clarissa
  
  July 17, 2017
  
  I’m already low on the sense of humor, and this sort of thing does me in completely.
  
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  1. DWeird
    
    July 17, 2017
    
    Most of the articles are just genuinely poorly constructed arguments, and the winks to the audience are very minimal. You really need the full experience of having been a sarcastic, passive aggressive child, teen, young adult and future octogenarian to cotton on as quickly as I did.
    
    But you should really read through some of the articles armed with this new knowledge. 😀 It’s really quite brilliant!
    
    “On the one hand, being a sex worker is an empowering and noble career but men enjoying porn is problematic.”
    
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Stringer bell

July 17, 2017

“Don’t you know by now that feminists never do satire?”

This is another thing misogynists do. A decade ago this motherfucker would’ve been yukking it up with his equally disgusting friends about how women aren’t funny. He’s evolved to where he’s substituted the word ‘women’ with ‘feminists’ because thats apparently more acceptable.

The intention is the same, the target is the same, the jokes are the same. They think they’ve gotten slicker about it. And how wrong they are. Like anyone would have trouble identifying these jackasses.

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1. Dreidel
  
  July 17, 2017
  
  “A decade ago this motherfucker would’ve been yukking it up with his equally disgusting friends about how women aren’t funny. ”
  
  Ah, String Boy, you’re such a ridiculous little child, so easy to provoke into impotent tantrums.
  
  🙂 Go sit back in the corner now and take a “time out.”
  
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  1. Stringer bell
    
    July 17, 2017
    
    You’re the one who hasnt evolved beyond the ‘girls have cooties’ child development stage lol.
    
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David Gendron

July 18, 2017

Don’t gender anyone.

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David Gendron

July 18, 2017

It’s again the human vs animals respective value of life, I’m very confident that this pseudo-feminist cunt has no problem about gendering the kids.

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1. David Gendron
  
  July 18, 2017
  
  Oops sorry, I retract my statement because of this, which is not bad:
  
  https://medusamagazine.com/we-need-to-stop-gendering-newborn-babies
  
  So her position about pets makes more sense.
  
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  1. David Gendron
    
    July 18, 2017
    
    Okay, she confounds sex and gender, but at least she recognizes that gender is a social construct.
    
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  2. el
    
    July 18, 2017
    
    \ Oops sorry, I retract my statement because of this, which is not bad
    
    She is joking, isn’t she?
    
    ” The child can change their gender through out life if they need to, or maybe they will be gender fluid and change their gender through out the day.”
    AND
    “We would be creating the most woke generation the world has ever seen.”
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    ” If you already have children, it’s not too late. … If you’re like me and don’t want to have children, you can still help this world by … always asking a person their pronouns, and educating those you come in contact. ”
    
    The entire article is pure comedy. 🙂 She is obviously joking, David. It has already been mentioned on this thread.
    
    “The most woke generation” reminded me of the concept of religious awakening and of the satirical camp-meeting in Huckleberry Finn where people also wake up:
    
    \ the preacher was lining out a hymn. … The people woke up more and more, and sung louder and louder; and towards the end some begun to groan, and some begun to shout. Then the preacher begun to preach … come, black with sin! (Amen!) … come with a contrite heart! come in your rags and sin and dirt! the waters that cleanse is free, the door of heaven stands open—oh, enter in and be at rest!” (A-A-Men! Glory, Glory Hallelujah!)
    
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    1. David Gendron
      
      July 18, 2017
      
      It’s not so bad because she at least recognizes that gender is a social construct, so that her position on pets makes more sense.
      
      But of course, there are some insane statements in her post like you said.
      
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    2. David Gendron
      
      July 18, 2017
      
      But my main point is this: don’t gender anyone. Genderism is invalid from a feminist perspective, but the third-wavers are unable to understand this very basic thing.
      
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      1. David Gendron
        
        July 18, 2017
        
        Although I identify myself as a spider, I would not try to enforce “sphe” instead of “he”. Simply use “David” as 3rd person singular pronoun, that’s it!
        
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        David Gendron
        
        July 18, 2017
        
        And if you want to use “he” because my sex is male, go for it. You don’t have to know that I’m a spider.
        
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      2. David Gendron
        
        July 18, 2017
        
        …as a…
        
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    3. David Gendron
      
      July 18, 2017
      
      https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/06/24/medusa-magazine-website-is-probably-a-hoax/
      
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    4. Clarissa
      
      July 18, 2017
      
      The tragedy is that there are too many people who do say a version of this in earnest and, what’s worse, want to enforce it legally.
      
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      1. Clarissa
        
        July 18, 2017
        
        It’s especially hard for those of us who are academics to figure it out because we hear this shit verbatim way too often
        
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2. David Gendron
  
  July 18, 2017
  
  …not so bad…
  
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