• LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Is this homophobic? I get this is some kind of absurd joke about linux making someone gay. Or about the absurdity that anything could make you gay. But it still works on both levels and perpetuates the idea of it being a choice, or infection or symptom, and also that femboys are somehow ridiculous.

    Or maybe I just don’t get the joke?

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      5 months ago

      Being a femboy doesn’t mean you have to be gay. Being a femboy means that you like to express yourself as a feminine. This means that you may wear clothes associated with females, use makeup or wear jewellery.

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      5 months ago

      I don’t think it’s meant to be like that. In fact I don’t think it’s that deep.

      I think for the cases where the meme actually holds true it’s a mixture between “hey I like this thing I didn’t know before (linux), what else may I like?”, being more likely to inform themselves about topics and probably also a community that is becoming more welcoming with the memes that eventually people try to explore themselves and figure out that they were something they didn’t know they were.

      If that makes any sense. They could also be unrelated and it simply happens to be that a lot of needs are also queer