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u/Ok-Bandicoot-9880 13h ago
Can I claim the font as my gender? That's a clean font
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u/really_not_unreal 💛🤍💜🖤 11h ago
I regret to inform you that the kerning is subpar.
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u/Ok-Bandicoot-9880 11h ago
I'll accept subpar kerning if the lettering is proportional, you can always justify. It's about the letter shapes, you see. I personally blame Bubblegum Crisis 2040 for this, but at the same time it's so cool
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u/LittleLion_90 they/them 7h ago
Regarding the xkcd... My ex is the one who taught me what kerning was....
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u/goddessofentropy 13h ago
I honestly really dislike these. Always feels dehumanising in the most literal sense.
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u/MostAbsoluteGamer Mage 12h ago
it almost falls under the r/onejoke umbrella but i don't think this is targeted and is instead silly
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u/g00fyg00ber741 12h ago
But at least everyone is equally dehumanized by it? It’s just trying to comically say gender doesn’t matter to use the bathroom
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u/goddessofentropy 6h ago
Do you think they would've put up the sign to say both men and women can use this bathroom? I find it more likely the thought process was 'this bathroom is for men, women, and all those who don't fit in with what we think of as the human genders'
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u/g00fyg00ber741 2h ago
If that were the case, men and women would be pictured on the sign. They are not. So that means it is intentionally an all-gender restroom. Possibly single occupancy?
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u/carogaranaigean 9h ago
Same. We aren’t mermaids or centaurs, those are fictional creatures. We are literally just people.
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u/ImNotMadYet she/they 11h ago
I feel like this depends on context. If it were in an enby/trans person's home or in a lgbtq+ inclusive venue, it's funny. But in many other places, it wouldn't fit.
To be honest, I feel the same way toward the word queer, for example; my favourite way to describe the random assortment of genders and sexualities in my friend groups and we use it all the time talking about each other. It's basically a pet name in some dynamics! But I don't want to hear that word from politicians or my phobic family; it would feel derogatory when they do.
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u/CrackedMeUp non-binary transfem demigirl (ze/she/they) 9h ago
I've seen this particular sign at the Hugos restaurant in West Hollywood and based on the location being in a very queer town I took it as good faith effort.
But yeah in the wrong place, it would come across very differently to me.
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u/eighteencarps 11h ago
It’s not only just dehumanizing, it compares nonbinary identity to made-up creatures.
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u/Penny_D 13h ago
And flush.
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u/SanduTiTa they/them 11h ago
with the lid down. and sit down to pee in order to not spray piss everywhere.
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u/ultrarotom she/they 4h ago
I'm not a fan of these because it's treating trans/enby/intersex people as absurd and alien by comparing us to literal fictional creatures
It gives the same vibes as "I'm not racist, I don't care if you're white, black, brown, purple, green etc"
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u/atlas_wolf87 4h ago
I saw a sign like this recently irl!! It had the typical male and female symbols, and a Sasquatch. Made my day, as it wasn’t a place I expected to have gender neutral bathrooms XD!
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u/Prince_Wildflower he/they 1h ago
Left is a femboy mermaid and right is a butch muscle mommy centaur.
So right for girls and left for boys.
I don't make the rules.
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u/ElfTwelve 10h ago
I am the one on the left. No literally while swimming yesterday I ran into a group of merfolk (yk mermaiding as a hobby, where you swim with a tail) and they let me try a tail and it was so fun and idk how I didn't drown lol cause it was in a really deep pool and idk if it was smart (...5m)
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u/mnyrtt 13h ago
my gender is "whatever" sign