• Dipbeneaththelasers@lemmy.today
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    “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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    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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    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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    But is it weird? Beryl is a decidedly androgynous name.

    What’s weird is that his saying this turned into a news story.

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      There is a judge - Beryl Howell - who has given some (correctly) unfavorable rulings in Trump cases. Can’t help but think he’s talking about the name because of her.

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      What’s weird is that he’s complaining about androgynous names. Was he born yesterday?

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    Why do we care about what that human-mouthed pile of shit has to say?

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      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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        And this guy saying he thinks Beryl is a non-binary name isn’t bigotry. Perhaps they’re targeting him for something else that he did that was bigoted? Did he do something else like that?

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      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.

  • Squirrel@thelemmy.club
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    Beryl is a mineral. There are definitely women with the name, and there are likely some men, too (though A Boy Named Beryl doesn’t have the same ring to it).

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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.

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        Fucking amen. We must do away with all coercive approaches to cultural norms.