Re:Be a Thermostat, Not a Thermometer
by detourdog on Thursday September 12, 2024 @04:22AM
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Your comment makes me question my masculinity. I would say the desire to communicate and the feelings expressed were feminine. Noee of the phrases you mentioned did I see as clues to gender.
Re:Be a Thermostat, Not a Thermometer
by jdthedisciple on Thursday September 12, 2024 @04:47AM
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To be clear I didn't say men never use any of these words individually (except for "spidey senses" I suppose).
Just that their frequent and combined usage in this particular article made me almost hear her voice in my head, including the female cadence and intonation...
"Weird vibes" is what finally made me check the author name ... I don't even know what "spidey sense" should mean.
I too noticed pretty quickly that this must be female POV.
You can generally tell even just by the word choices ("spidey senses" American women seem to love that phrase for some reason, "super <adjective>", "awry", "weird vibes", ...)
Another instant give-away was "now we've got a compounding situation" - quite a feminine phrasing. Not judging, I mean it sounds almost cute even.
Finally, her idea of "facing each other squarely": a total no-no for men (way too much potenial energy, like two massive electron beams opposing each other), but OK for women.