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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • My girlfriend can’t screw them back on properly so right now she only uses each drinks bottle once

    I hate the things so much because they hurt to use, can’t really be used one-handed and also make it difficult to drink from the bottle because of the weird angles they implicate.

    So I’ve been cutting the caps off and cutting the little limbs off and making what was previously one piece of plastic into three, which I obviously also hate doing.

    In the past I would always screw the lid back on before binning it, either to trap the air out or for the sake of completeness, so in my particular case this policy is very much the worst of all worlds, I hope the data shows that I’m an edge case though if they’re passing it into law.






  • Pyrozo007@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoMemes@lemmy.mlgrammarphobia
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    1 year ago

    I would argue it does make a difference. Like I said, many people don’t fit gender norms, but most people do. So knowing it’s a woman shopping can suggest a array of things.

    • She will likely be buying some degree more female-oriented or marketed products, a strong example being tampons or a weaker example being beauty products

    • Her experience shopping will be that of a woman’s, i.e. she might get patronised in the hardware section or sales-bullied in the technology section, both of which are quite common for women even now

    I really can’t think of an example where you interact with other people where a woman’s experience won’t be affected by her being a woman.



  • Pyrozo007@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoMemes@lemmy.mlgrammarphobia
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    1 year ago

    I couldn’t disagree more, many people may not fit into genders, but most people do and simply knowing whether someone is a man or a woman is very useful. Gendered nouns though, like in French, Spanish, Italian etc. serve no purpose but do encode redundancy into the language which can be very valuable for speaking in loud places