🏳️⚧ Charlie 🏳️⚧, @ilovelrealppl

Trans peeps…have you considered opening an: Antique store?

Consignment shop?

Scrap yard?

Or just having a garage sale?

Guaranteed success. People are very interested in our junk!

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    The weird thing is that I know that “junk” is an uncountable noun, yet “our junk” to collectively refer to the genitalia of trans people feels wrong to me? Almost like the tweet is implying that all trans people share one set of genitals as a group, rather than having one set of genitals per person.

    • 新星 [they/them/🏳️‍⚧️]OP
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      4 months ago

      Does it feel equally unnatural to you with other uncountables like “money”?

      CW: slightly violent language for lack of better examples

      I wonder how much of this is context-dependent in language — “In stupidity, we started to attack ourselves” doesn’t tend to imply each group member injuring themself, but “We will kill ourselves tonight” seems to

    • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      4 months ago

      Do you have issues with synecdoche, where a part of something is used to refer to a whole, or the inverse of that? Boots referring to soldiers, or a city’s name referring to a sports team associated with that city?

      This may be a dialect issue, rather than one of formal English grammar.