Re: Now LEGO BLOCKS Can Discriminate Over Their Parts?!

On 2025-02-09 20:37:01 +0000, moviePig said:

On 2/9/2025 2:45 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Feb 9, 2025 at 10:37:20 AM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

 This is an example of applying heteronormative language to topics
unrelated to gender, sex and reproduction. It illustrates how
heteronormativity (the idea that heterosexuality and the male/female
gender binary are the norm and everything that falls outside is unusual)

 That's literally true. Heterosexuality *is* the norm. They're arguing here
that something that's true shouldn't be true.

 It's the "norm" in the sense of "usual, typical, or standard" -- and, afaics, what's being demonstrated here is how pervasive that 'norm' is. What *isn't* explicitly addressed is how 'norm' often becomes "normal".

It doesn't really matter what is said or what is meant, there will always be some fool who takes offence, largely because they have nothing better to do.
For example, the sentence
    "the idea that heterosexuality and the male/female
     gender binary are the norm and everything that
     falls outside is unusual"
will get complaints because it says that being non-male and non-female is "unsual", which some people will read as a synonym for "weird".
The reality is that people simply need to grow up and ignore all this Politically Correct garbage.