Today's Gender of the Day is: tuned percussion instrument #genderoftheday
All #genderoftheday entries are somewhere between 30% and 95% serious.
In all seriousness though, if a transphobe can read a Gender of the Day post and think I'm on their team, is this... really a good thing for me to be doing?
It's an easy joke to misread without context.
@starkatt Most things can be misread without context to mean pretty much whatever the reader thinks it ought to. Don't let that stop you! 😸
@ElectricKeet I think it's important to keep in mind that the target audience and the total audience can be different, though. A post being read in a way other than what was intended doesn't mean I'm absolved from consequences of that reading.
@starkatt @ElectricKeet No, but you're also not obligated to own every reading of your text, either. There's a pretty big gap between "it's easy to read that into this" and "you had to bring a ton of your own context with you to get that interpretation."
@literorrery @ElectricKeet Sure. But for the Genderoftheday posts, it *is* pretty easy to arrive at an unintended reading from outside of the intended audience/context.
@starkatt @ElectricKeet Maybe so. At the same time, it's hard for me to not think somebody who makes that reading is doing so deliberately. That may be because I'm an insider looking at it. All I can really suggest is asking cis and straight allies what they think.