• Victor
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    71 year ago

    What the fuck is this meme, honestly? What’s with all the femboy stuff? There’s so many ordinary people using Linux. I don’t get it. And there seems to be something against Arch Linux users in particular? I use Arch and have a wife and two kids. Am I not normal? Should I become a femboy, fellas?

    • UnfortunateShort
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      51 year ago

      First came programmer socks, then Rust was invented, and now (fe)men are taking matters into their own hands, correcting the gender gap in IT themselves. What’s not to understand here?

      Seriously tho, I don’t think it’s against anyone. It’s just a meme, probably originating from a high share of queer people in the IT domain and the rising popularity of anime and manga culture, where femboys are sometimes idealised.

      • @azertyfun@sh.itjust.works
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        It’s just a generational difference.

        The Gen Xers get really confused because to them a stereotypical “computer nerd” is (was) a greasy 35 year old in his mom’s basement which is covered in RMS posters who would unironically 741k l1k3 7h15.

        South Park WoW guy

        To us zoomers a stereotypical “computer nerd” is a proudly neuroatypical GNC queer with a body pillow of their waifu.

        Programming socks

    • @CAVOK@lemmy.world
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      Very weird. Started with Slackware back in 97 or so. Still not a femboy and no desire to be one.

      Maybe if I switched to arch?

      • Victor
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        21 year ago

        I take it that’s why Linux users become femboys, because they “can’t get laid/are incels”. Maybe I’m misunderstanding the premise of the meme.

        • @reddithalation@sopuli.xyz
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          Nah it’s more about pointing out how groups of people that are into tech like linux, programming etc, seem to have a lot of lgbtq people. Anecdotally, I have seen a lot programming communities with an oddly large number of lgbtq people in them.

      • @Steak@lemmy.ca
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        Most real woman don’t wanna marry a guy who fantasizes about being a weird little catboy.

      • Victor
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        21 year ago

        Because I don’t want to. And I don’t want to be made like I want to, nor should.

        • TurboWafflz
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          11 year ago

          Do you like genuinely think people are trying to turn you into a femboy? No one is doing that, it is just a joke. Be whatever you want, that’s kind of the point.

          • Victor
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            11 year ago

            I do not, no, I know they can’t. I just don’t like the attitude. If it’s a joke, it’s definitely weird considering the LGBTQ community is under constant pressure to conform to binary gender roles from the rest of society. But then here they’re doing the same thing? Even as a joke? Especially if OP is not part of said community, but I assume they are.

            I just don’t think it’s funny, because I know they don’t enjoy it either. It’s distasteful in my opinion, because the respect needs to be both ways.

    • @kttnpunk@lemmy.world
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      01 year ago

      Yes, yes yes! The world needs more femboy dads. That said this happened the other way around for me. Just goes to show how much overlap there is among fringe internet cultures- I really wish we could all play nice more often.