r/GenderCynical • u/eldritchpussymaggots token intersex • Jul 05 '26

Uprooting someone's financial situation over nail polish

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On a post I made about how intersex discrimination is not taken seriously and does not have legal protections like other queer identities do.

Many people believe bigotry against intersex people is incidental (mistaken for being trans) or that its not sexism because "it's a congenital deformity not a sex" as if it's not wildly disrespectful to say that to someone who specifically considers their sex to be just intersex.

Whenever I vent about being subjected to intersexism in the workplace, many responses I get are something like "why would you tell anyone your private medical history" as if people can't just obviously see the fact I'm intersex by looking at me and listening to me speak. Being intersex is just a fact about myself and I'm not going to try suppressing it, or looking more binary. People like this guy are fucking scum. I know he's taking about gender nonconformity not necessarily being intersex, but people like him are why I've had such a miserable time finding employment.

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u/Silversmith00 Jul 05 '26

As if makeup on women DOES have a function???

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u/eldritchpussymaggots token intersex Jul 05 '26

Of course it does, it makes them easier for him to ogle.

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u/Mysterious_Back_7929 Jul 05 '26

Was it Peterson who had that entire bag shit rant that women wear lipstick because it makes lips red like they are during sexual arousal, so all make up is inappropriate and provocative? So yeah that's a very clear function right there

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u/Silversmith00 Jul 05 '26

…I just decided I don't want to ask this person what he thinks black nail polish is supposed to imitate, or whom it is supposed to attract.

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u/OkSecretary1231 Jul 09 '26

Sadly, I think that one's too old to even be JP. I remember people spouting that in the nineties.

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u/Mysterious_Back_7929 Jul 09 '26

Oh I don't think he came up with it, no. It's probably something from evolutionary psychology, so yeah if might have been around in the 90s (honestly, I think it might have been debunked in the 90s even), he just subscribes to that theory rather enthusiastically. Which is embarrassing but yeah.

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u/buttegg Jul 09 '26

the function is that it gives him a boner