you probably know about the cinematic technique of "day for night", but have you heard of the also very common "toronto for some other place"
When you skipped history class and the briefing.
just realized that as soon as tech companies made the shift from siri style "personal assistants" to "AI" that you were supposed to trust for actual answers about things, they stopped gendering them all as feminine. grok, chatgpt, claude, they're all either neutral or masculine
βGod said 'Love Your Enemy', and I obeyed him and loved myself.β
β Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings (1912)
itβs not like I donβt fully understand why someone would hate men and masculinity, i do. but idk when ur talking to a community of mostly trans and nonbinary people its just kind of reductive to make mascs out to be the oppressor in every situation, when the reality is a lot of us are still viewed and treated as women by society. doesnβt reducing things down to man=oppressor end of story reinforce the gender binary instead of meaningfully challenging it?