Worst of Social Justice

[Even Then]

Until we somehow get our act together and figure out proper finely-grained vocabulary for the relevant variations in biological sex, "male" and "female" really is the best we've got.

Sad, but true.

[Canadian Mojo]

I work with bells and spigots. I guess that makes non-threaded pipe connections more progressive. 

[niam2023]

I do not care if I'm being transphobic, I am not letting my male and female pipes and connectors transition and become Trans Pipes!

Gawd does not make mistakes, Pipe! You were created a male pipe and I am not letting you go through surgery and become a connector!

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WHAT!? NO! MY PIPE JUST ATTEMPTED SUICIDE!! THAT IS A MORTAL SIN YOU PIECE OF METAL!

[rookie]

I do not care if I'm being transphobic, I am not letting my male and female pipes and connectors transition and become Trans Pipes!

Gawd does not make mistakes, Pipe! You were created a male pipe and I am not letting you go through surgery and become a

What about the real life homeowner fix of bang it with a large block of wood til it fits? Pipe rape?

[Random Gal]

I do not care if I'm being transphobic, I am not letting my male and female pipes and connectors transition and become Trans Pipes!

Gawd does not make mistakes, Pipe! You were created a male pipe and I am not letting you go through surgery and become a

What about the real life homeowner fix of bang it with a large block of wood til it fits? Pipe rape?

Unlicensed back-alley surgery.

[Askold]

Finnish has male- and female-adapters in technical language. And yes, there are teachers who use it as "proof" for why homosexuality is "wrong and won't work" but mainly it is just a simple way of naming adapters and such. Male thingy goes into the female thingy, that is simple and back when someone thought of they probably didn't think that using the names of biological genders would cause distress to people.

...Besides, we also have things like these:
male-male adapter:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/images/images2500x2500/Neutrik_NA3MM_XLR_Male_to_XLR_491523.jpg
female-female adapter:
http://www.lindy.co.uk/images/vga-female-to-female-adapter-p2553-3176_zoom.jpg

So all you need is some tools and you can have "same-sex" unions with your cables, pipes whatnot.

[niam2023]

^ HHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!

[Even Then]

Finnish has male- and female-adapters in technical language. And yes, there are teachers who use it as "proof" for why homosexuality is "wrong and won't work"

what the fuck the fuck, they're pieces of metal, why

Also, did we ever get that same-sex marriage legislation through? As far as I'm aware, it's still stuck in development hell.

(Also, obligatory "Suomi mainittu, torilla tavataan XD )

[Askold]

Finnish has male- and female-adapters in technical language. And yes, there are teachers who use it as "proof" for why homosexuality is "wrong and won't work"

what the fuck the fuck, they're pieces of metal, why

Also, did we ever get that same-sex marriage legislation through? As far as I'm aware, it's still stuck in development hell.

(Also, obligatory "Suomi mainittu, torilla tavataan XD )

Urosliitin and Naarasliitin. Like I said, few decades ago it probably seemed like a funny but logical way of naming them because everyone will naturally remember what they mean rather than if they had made up completely new terms for them.

Samesex marriage law change in Finland were passed but the changes won't go into action until 1.3.2017 because... I don't know, we don't make changes that would activate immediately? There are a few other laws that also have to be changed and they gave some time to prepare for those? Anyway, even if some parties *cough* Truefinns *cough* manage to stall and prevent changes to the other laws that would contradict the marriage law the new law will go into effect in 2017 even if there are still contradictions. There is no way to prevent that because the parliament accepted it, but things will be less messy if some assholes won't prevent changing those other laws to suit this one.

[Even Then]

No no, the "what the fuck" was directed at the teachers. I understand the principle behind naming the connectors that.

[guizonde]

Well, personally I just don't see the need to refer to pieces of metal as having a gender when there are other, probably simpler methods of identification that could be used. Then again, Finnish has no gendered grammatic structures so maybe my perspective on the matter is tainted.

it's a penis metaphor. it's the only reason it caught on.

brb, going to trigger misandrists with a guitar lead.

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[Dakota Bob]

I find all that fatlogic very triggering.

[niam2023]

Don't thinsplain me shitkings!!!

[Cerim Treascair]

Don't thinsplain me shitkings!!!

That's shitLORDS, get it right!

[TheL]

I can only imagine what would happen if one of these morons tried to learn a gendered language.

In German, a young lady has no sex, while a turnip has. Think what overwrought reverence that shows for the turnip, and what callous disrespect for the girl. See how it looks in print -- I translate this from a conversation in one of the best of the German Sunday-school books:

"Gretchen.
    Wilhelm, where is the turnip?
Wilhelm.
    She has gone to the kitchen.
Gretchen.
    Where is the accomplished and beautiful English maiden?
Wilhelm.
    It has gone to the opera."

To continue with the German genders: a tree is male, its buds are female, its leaves are neuter; horses are sexless, dogs are male, cats are female -- tomcats included, of course; a person's mouth, neck, bosom, elbows, fingers, nails, feet, and body are of the male sex, and his head is male or neuter according to the word selected to signify it, and not according to the sex of the individual who wears it -- for in Germany all the women either male heads or sexless ones; a person's nose, lips, shoulders, breast, hands, and toes are of the female sex; and his hair, ears, eyes, chin, legs, knees, heart, and conscience haven't any sex at all. The inventor of the language probably got what he knew about a conscience from hearsay.

Sigmaleph: And let's not forget that Spanish also has a weird exception to its usual gender rules: "el mapa."  Everything else follows the "-o is male, -a is female" pattern.  But MAPS.  Why are fucking maps so special?