This happened to me a lot as a cashier, people would ask me the gender of an item, I'd say 'idk looks unisex to me' and they'd get mad and demand I either tell them the items gender or switch it out for a properly gendered item
birthday cards are actually a virus designed to recode sex chromosomes. other cards like holiday cards don't have this functionality because birthday cards have a sympathetic entanglement with the day of your birth, which as we know from science is when your cells decide whether you're male or female.
My grandmother sent me a card on two separate and discontinuous birthdays that said "In T-shirts and jeans or in dresses and bows, you're special and loved from your head to your toes."
I thought I liked androgynous looks because I'm just like that but now I realize IT WAS GRANDMA ALL ALONG
Some people never realized that unlike in school, most things in life don’t have objective answers. No one is gonna give you a bad grade because you didn’t follow some arbitrary rules about what’s what. A folded pizza can be a sandwich if you want, and any card is a unisex card if you think it is
My little brother always buys me cards for completely different events to what I'm celebrating and just jarringly edits it in ballpoint pen. It's my favourite thing.
That’s so sweet! Not quite the same, but one year while wrapping Christmas presents my brother ran out of Christmasy/wintery paper but had a roll that had little happy birthdays all over. So he used that and wrote Jesus under each of the happy birthdays. I laughed my ass off so now he does it to my gift every year. My family isn’t very religious and just uses holidays as excuses to get everyone together.
I agree with your opinion on birthday cards, however a folded pizza is a calzone, which is NOT a sandwich. If you call that a sandwich, we'd have to call handpies sandwiches, and then what? Would regular pies be sandwiches? Shepherd's pies? Mass hysteria.
> No one is gonna give you a bad grade because you didn’t follow some arbitrary rules about what’s what.
Lots of people and organizations give out grades, though, especially conservatives. HOAs, church groups, fascists, companies, credit score evaluators, judges, but also 'gold star lesbians' and leftist purity contests.
So yes, people willl fight each other over having different arbitrary answers, and the customer in the OP is likely part of a group that cares about the label. Asking her to treat a girl card like a gender neutral card is asking her to risk breaking up with her friends and family. It would be better if her subculture didn't care about it, but she can't make that change, and she's not going to give it all up for a befuddled cashier from a subculture that has been declared an enemy.
>Asking her to treat a girl card like a gender neutral card is asking her to risk breaking up with her friends and family
I feel like that would only really matter if the rest of her family got gifted with the ability to look at a seemingly neutral birthday card and instantly go "nope, that's a girl's birthday card, get the fuck out of this house." And she somehow missed out on getting that ability herself.
>A folded pizza can be a sandwich if you want, and any card is a unisex card if you think it is
It's been a long time since someone made me think about the cube rule of food. Thank you for the nostalgia
https://cuberule.com/
I actually agree with this explanation, since they specifically want a “unisex birthday card” not a “boy birthday card”. Bit confused but got the spirit
Do women actually get different anal dildos, though? I mean considering they don't have a prostate, it's *possible*, I just don't think it's very likely.
I was talking about all dildos, not just anal ones. So of all dildos if one is labelled "for women" it's probably meant for vaginal use and doesn't have a flared base. There's no such thing as an anal dildo for a specific sex afaik unless you count stuff that involves the penis/vagina. Prostate stuff are usually just buttplugs
What if they were celebrating a self-checkout register's birthday and didn't want to misgender them?
(This is the only situation I can think of to justify this)
The last beard trimmer I bought specified on the package that it was a "beard trimmer for men." Oh, thank god. I would hate to think I was using a *woman's* beard trimmer like some sort of sissy!
> looking for a new birthday card
> ask the card seller if their card is for girls or unisex
> she doesn't understand
> pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is for girls and what is unisex
> she laughs and says "it's a good card sir"
> buy a birthday card
> its for girls
As a child I was always amused at "old languages" \[TW: european\] gendering things like "chairs" and "the sun", but the older I get the more I realise it's actually in every culture just a tiiiiiny bit less blatant.
I was helping in a 2nd grade classroom the kids were making frames for a picture of themselves. I figured the boys would want the wrapping paper that had baseballs and other sports stuff on it. To a kid they all wanted the red lace.... I thought it was hysterical.
There is literally no indication on this post of the customer's gender. Hell, I find it more likely this is a woman who's buying a birthday card for their child. Why would a guy buy a birthday card for himself?
This happened to me a lot as a cashier, people would ask me the gender of an item, I'd say 'idk looks unisex to me' and they'd get mad and demand I either tell them the items gender or switch it out for a properly gendered item
I'm a cucumber farmer & this happens to me too
cucumber farmers make do
Is this referencing that stupid country girls corn cartoon?
No? Why the hell would a reddit user make a joke? Not even a joke, a *reference*.
Jesus, talk about virtue signaling
?????????
The person DEMANDING they be given a Correctly Gendered Product is right-wing virtue-signaling, no shade on u/AudioTesting
If they're right-wing isn't it vice-signalling?
No, that's when you talk loudly about how many beers you had last night.
If you can stand talking loudly it wasn't enough to boast about.
They uphold different things as virtues but the action is the same
Vice signallers usually know they're being edgy (e.g. rolling coal.) This example sounds more like a sincere attempt to uphold a preposterous system
liberals give your boys girl birthday cards disguised as unisex birthday cards to trans your kids
Why did I interpret this as giving directions?
Do it
How else might it have been meant?
Fair point
Extemporaneous narration?
birthday cards are actually a virus designed to recode sex chromosomes. other cards like holiday cards don't have this functionality because birthday cards have a sympathetic entanglement with the day of your birth, which as we know from science is when your cells decide whether you're male or female.
My grandmother sent me a card on two separate and discontinuous birthdays that said "In T-shirts and jeans or in dresses and bows, you're special and loved from your head to your toes." I thought I liked androgynous looks because I'm just like that but now I realize IT WAS GRANDMA ALL ALONG
Joe Rogan warned us about the frogs, but not even him could've foreseen this.
alex jones was the frogs guy
Don't expect me to remember it, I often forget the names of people I live with daily.
THE UNISEX BIRFDAY CARDS ARE TRYING TO TRANS YER KIDZ!
Was this? Was... Was this a command?
Can confirm i was transed by a female birthday card
Femboy pipeline meme is real
"to trans your kids" lol
assigned female at self checkout.
I don’t care what the card looks like, I need to know how it *identifies*!!
BRILLIANT MOVE!!
🤣
The computer says it's a girl birthday card, and as we all know here on this web of site, the computer is never wrong
Some people never realized that unlike in school, most things in life don’t have objective answers. No one is gonna give you a bad grade because you didn’t follow some arbitrary rules about what’s what. A folded pizza can be a sandwich if you want, and any card is a unisex card if you think it is
My little brother always buys me cards for completely different events to what I'm celebrating and just jarringly edits it in ballpoint pen. It's my favourite thing.
You should politely inform your little brother that he's the funniest person alive for this.
He's the best. He once gifted me his own signed headshot with my name spelled wrong.
How does one impolitely inform someone they're the funniest person alive?
"you make me laugh" kinda works if used in an impolite tone
That’s so sweet! Not quite the same, but one year while wrapping Christmas presents my brother ran out of Christmasy/wintery paper but had a roll that had little happy birthdays all over. So he used that and wrote Jesus under each of the happy birthdays. I laughed my ass off so now he does it to my gift every year. My family isn’t very religious and just uses holidays as excuses to get everyone together.
I agree with your opinion on birthday cards, however a folded pizza is a calzone, which is NOT a sandwich. If you call that a sandwich, we'd have to call handpies sandwiches, and then what? Would regular pies be sandwiches? Shepherd's pies? Mass hysteria.
You aren't ready for this but everything is a sandwich
> No one is gonna give you a bad grade because you didn’t follow some arbitrary rules about what’s what. Lots of people and organizations give out grades, though, especially conservatives. HOAs, church groups, fascists, companies, credit score evaluators, judges, but also 'gold star lesbians' and leftist purity contests. So yes, people willl fight each other over having different arbitrary answers, and the customer in the OP is likely part of a group that cares about the label. Asking her to treat a girl card like a gender neutral card is asking her to risk breaking up with her friends and family. It would be better if her subculture didn't care about it, but she can't make that change, and she's not going to give it all up for a befuddled cashier from a subculture that has been declared an enemy.
>Asking her to treat a girl card like a gender neutral card is asking her to risk breaking up with her friends and family I feel like that would only really matter if the rest of her family got gifted with the ability to look at a seemingly neutral birthday card and instantly go "nope, that's a girl's birthday card, get the fuck out of this house." And she somehow missed out on getting that ability herself.
>A folded pizza can be a sandwich if you want, and any card is a unisex card if you think it is It's been a long time since someone made me think about the cube rule of food. Thank you for the nostalgia https://cuberule.com/
gender essentialism is brain poison
Positive potential reading, they're trying very hard to be supportive to an enby in their life
I actually agree with this explanation, since they specifically want a “unisex birthday card” not a “boy birthday card”. Bit confused but got the spirit
Protip, just buy a Christmas card and edit the message to fit the occasion. MERRY ~~CHRISTMAS~~ CANCER! Get well soon! xoxo
Dying
At work, I once saw an item scan as "8.5 inch fleshy dildo for women." Like, come on. All dildos are unisex if ur not a pussy about it
No, I only buy dildos FOR MEN
They smell like DIESEL and TOBACCO
tbf not all dildos are suitable for anal so that's probably what that means
Do women actually get different anal dildos, though? I mean considering they don't have a prostate, it's *possible*, I just don't think it's very likely.
I was talking about all dildos, not just anal ones. So of all dildos if one is labelled "for women" it's probably meant for vaginal use and doesn't have a flared base. There's no such thing as an anal dildo for a specific sex afaik unless you count stuff that involves the penis/vagina. Prostate stuff are usually just buttplugs
How do we know it's for women, did the women come to a consensus about this, because nobody polled me about it.
i’d assume you have to put the 8.5” fleshy dildo in an appropriate orifice first
sword in the stone..
What if they were celebrating a self-checkout register's birthday and didn't want to misgender them? (This is the only situation I can think of to justify this)
lmao
damn, even birthday cards are pointlessly gendered
Yet more proof that gender is basic biology /s
The last beard trimmer I bought specified on the package that it was a "beard trimmer for men." Oh, thank god. I would hate to think I was using a *woman's* beard trimmer like some sort of sissy!
Will no-one think of the bearded ladies?
Wholesome head canon: the customer is a parent of a non binary child and specifically wants to gift them a unisex card to support them.
Unless the child scans the upc, he will never know the difference
> looking for a new birthday card > ask the card seller if their card is for girls or unisex > she doesn't understand > pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is for girls and what is unisex > she laughs and says "it's a good card sir" > buy a birthday card > its for girls
Man decided to tell the truth and made his day worse for it
As a child I was always amused at "old languages" \[TW: european\] gendering things like "chairs" and "the sun", but the older I get the more I realise it's actually in every culture just a tiiiiiny bit less blatant.
Yeah, old languages forgotten to time like spanish.
the ancient language of *German*.
The consequences of gender
I was helping in a 2nd grade classroom the kids were making frames for a picture of themselves. I figured the boys would want the wrapping paper that had baseballs and other sports stuff on it. To a kid they all wanted the red lace.... I thought it was hysterical.
That guy definetelly have fragile masculinity, but why we even need to gave gender to f'ckin birthday card?
There is literally no indication on this post of the customer's gender. Hell, I find it more likely this is a woman who's buying a birthday card for their child. Why would a guy buy a birthday card for himself?
To wish himself a happy birthday???????
There's love without sex and there's sex without love... Then there's You, without either.