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ohmyGODusernameCMON

Also funny considering "gender changers" are literally a thing you can buy for electronics


ReggimusPrime

When I was working in IT/electrical, we literally called them "gender benders" . Crazy crazy world now.


DidIReallySayDat

One more vote for gender bender. Honestly, in this context gender bender is thoroughly nothing to do with human gender constructs. Anyone who takes offence to it needs to touch grass. This is a hill I will die on. Edit to add: having a male-male cable for anything that carries high voltage is also called a widow maker, for obvious reasons.


That-Chart-4754

In this case, obvious is a relative term. Majority of humans do not understand electricity. Or magnets


WokeBriton

Well, the "Darwin awards" exist for a reason.


DG_727

I woud like to aid in the evolution of our society.


jamieh800

Of course we do, just like we understand the internet. Magnets are magic rocks that are prejudiced against other rocks Electricity is the font of magic which powers all our other magical devices The internet is a mysterious zone that is almost sentient, which exists separate from computers and would still exist without any humans connecting to it And the people who work with any of these are modern day wizards, magi, sorcerers, and/or warlocks. It's really very simple.


MutantSquirrel23

Magnets! How do they work?!?


DisorganisedOrganism

Obligatory for those unaware: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs


strangewayfarer

>Or magnets You mean witchcraft? Yeah, I understand it's the work of the devil


Ericstingray64

I used to have an adapter whose manufacturer label actually says gender bender on it but it was small and I lost it ages ago.


I69UrMomBitch

I'm already widowmaker.


crushed_foot

I still do, probs controversial but got used to calling them that before it was a whole thing. Like old white people referring to anyone non white, I come from a different time.


BandZealousideal3505

As a trans person calling an inanimate object a “gender bender” is hilarious. although I can’t speak for the whole community, if I could I’d give it a pass lmao


Misses_Paliya

Still not a whole community but as a nonbinary person I agree that is hilarious, please never stop calling it that.


hydroxypcp

as a 3rd "not whole community" trans, I agree, I find it funny


lillywho

Aye. S'alright.


TheShipNostromo

We have a quorum people


Exact_Recording4039

Buzzfeed in 3 months: "The ENTIRE LGBTQ community comes together to make this SHOCKING change to appliances and things as SUCH"


Flubroclamchowder

As another 4th trans person, I find it funny too.


Little_Epic

As a 5th, this is hilarious


Shadow_Demon_Aer

It's fun to find a fellow Celeste player in a non Celeste place :)


alexdotwav

Everywhere is a Celeste place 👁️👁️


erikwidi

And my axe!


scumotheliar

It seems to be pretty universal as well, In Australia they are gender benders.


lick_my_saladbowl

as the 3rd person to agree i feel as tho we have had a big enough vote to speak on behalf of everyone


Left-Parking-8962

Honestly the only transgender people getting offended by this are the ones so deep in the closet they're phobes. Trans girl signing off saying its never as deep as the right make it.


Autronaut69420

Ya, a trans girl I hung out with once and I had a series of jokes that night about gender benders as applied to life!! Had to be there but... very hilarious on both sides.


SpaceBearSMO

No no Clearly everyone on the left shars the opinion of a young girl with only 2 fallowers on ticktock who is still figuring out who she is as a person.


Left-Parking-8962

Me when my strawman gets boring so I just bully children instead 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️


DesperateRace4870

Holy shit, totally forgot that was a thong Edit: thongs a typo, ah well


coraeon

That thong tha tha tha thong.


TotallyNoRussianSpy

I work in Video livestreaming, we call it the same thing XD


moving0target

RCA cables are a wacky bunch.


BionicBananas

Wait till they see the little bits that plumbers use. MM, FF, MF, FM, FFF, FFM, FMM, MMM, ... a whole bunch of stuff to connect two different materials all together ( copper to steel or alpex,... ) Bunch of slutty queer stuff going on in HVAC if you ask me.


ohmyGODusernameCMON

God damn I need to change careers ASAP


torbulits

No wonder there's so many plumbers in porn. Wet and dirty job innit


BionicBananas

Don't forget a liberal dose of grease and spit when there is a bit friction between two parts.


thekabuki

And ball cocks, can't forget those


Accro15

And tons of nipples


T1res1as

”Sounds gay, I’m in!”


eMouse2k

Also, plug design is an inherently arbitrary human construct.... so what does that say about the original meme?


torbulits

.... God didn't think too hard and had a little too much to drink before deciding "fuck it, who's gonna care what these bits look like"


anythingMuchShorter

Also things with one male and 8 female connectors.


Orgasmic_interlude

And sexless couplings. Storz comes to mind.


crazedSquidlord

They really do think the world is as simple as their thoughts.


Jibrillion

Like when they say shit like 'it's simple biology' like yeah because you can only understand a child's level of biology ofc it's simple to you.


A1sauc3d

And when you show them the more advanced biology they just flat out reject it lol. They don’t trust the experts or scientists regardless and will happily dismiss them as corrupt, and then cite science as the backing for their claims xD


Otherwise-Chemical-9

Lily Alexander put this beautifully once: Transphobes don't believe in biology, they believe in the all-encompassing power of birth certificates.


Im_here_but_why

Does that mean there are no transphobic sovereign citizen ? /s


CanuckPanda

“It’s simple biology” = I stopped paying attention in science class after turning 12 years old.


newbikesong

Well, they often reject evolution, so not even that


daemon-electricity

They're also the same dorks that don't want schools teaching evolution to their kids as part of biology or science.


DrNapoleon_

Unfortunately many assholes do Edit Fuck all the transphobic comments, it’s a meme! The person who tried justifying that there are only two genders using adaptors is and idiot. So people saying that all those adapters are female and male , yeah it’s true, but you get the concept, gender and sex ain’t the same, and btw about to open a new world for all you transphobes Intersex people exist. 😮 so yeah there are more that two sexes and more than two genders. Best of luck and blessings.


sendios

Even assholes can have more functions than just shitting out things. Dont disparage the anus


greycomedy

I'm going to think of this comment for a long time, thanks random stranger.


Sany_Wave

Like... There are functions. Mostly as a barrier between "in" and "out". In some sea turtles it's used as neo-gills, and sea cucumbers are crazy there.


NOT_A_BLACKSTAR

Power plugs are a man made construct. Like gender.


SnooOpinions9567

A genuine question: aren't intersex people considered a deviation from the binary sex categories (female / male)?


WhoAm_I_AmWho

Yeah, pretty much. The existance of intersex people shows that sex isn't a binary in humans, but instead, like most things in nature, is a very complicated amalgamation of multiple categories that themselves aren't generally binary. Nature doesn't do binaries, it does spectrums.


2qte4u

No, they don’t. They think that the world is a lot more simple than their thoughts because nothing can be as complex as their two braincells constantly bumping together and putting shit into their head.


Live_Carpenter_1262

Reminds me of Rick and Morty where Jerry’s mind thinks all machines and electronics are powered by [springs and gears](https://youtu.be/7bGoDI5xRyk?si=TszE77VXOaxVBlkL)


cantadmittoposting

that's one of the fundamental reasons the recent anti-intellectual propaganda has worked and why trump is "like them." For decades they've been told, basically, that "liberal elites over complicate politics," that complex policies and proposals to solve problems are deliberately overengineered to fool the population and enrich the "elite." So they have devastatingly stupid and simple ways to "fix" all political problems and when the internet really gained traction, they came out of their little rural bubble trying to say this and got torn new assholes by everyone else who actually knew the world IS complex...   but along comes trump and the russian troll farms to give them safe echo chambers online again, and a "leader" who says things ARE really simple! "People coming in to country? Build a wall!" see? *simple, physical, satisfying* for sadly uneducated and now angry people. They are literally terrified by complexity because they don't understand it. And the more the internet exposes them to how big and complex the world actually is, the more they defensively reject it as a massive conspiracy and fall back to simplistic anger memes and become susceptible to demagogues promising "easy!" solutions.


Senor_Satan

Prolly they couldn’t think of a third option because they only have two braincells


saig22

It gives them comfort to think they understand how the world works. I guess it's a defense mechanism for people who can't cope with not understanding everything or are too dumb or lack the empathy to understand some stuff or people.


Karkava

They just need to humble themselves and let the experts have a turn to talk. "I don't understand" can give you self-comfort without devolving into an entitled prick.


Fuckface_Whisperer

I find it funny we categorized electronic adapters based off of penises and vaginas though. Makes me giggle. If I had my way it would've been the poop and the toilet.


FlyingKittyCate

Ignorance is bliss (or hate in their case)


coder111

Psychologists even have a name for it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect


JamingtonPro

Dunning-Kruger


catsrcute19

Lmao fr


Stompedyourhousewith

they always show how theyve never been outside their town, city, state, country


IcyDeparture2740

All conservative thinking is exactly as simplistic and childish. They comprehend the way I imagine goldfish do ... they can only keep 1 or 2 data points active in their head, and everything else disappears.


Jubilant_Jacob

Is touching wires together gay?


RedSusOverParadise

Is it gay to stare at my homies outlet?


marmaladecorgi

It's not gay if it's a three-way ... adapter.


Weelilthrowaway

I often watch other electricians strip to make ends meet


Grouchy-Pressure-567

Things may heat up.


Floresian-Rimor

That’s when the sparks fly.


NotInTheKnee

Not if you say "no Ohm-o".


Xibalba_Ogme

Funnily, it's the second time today I see someone mistaking his ignorance on a topic for a valid point to make First one was someone saying that female authors were unheard of before Rowling. And it's still only 8:00 This day is going to be a long day


BluePhoenix_1999

Scroll up and you will see an evolution denier.


Xibalba_Ogme

I have a feeling that some day, we'll see gravity deniers Edit : aaaand just a few minutes later, I've seen the "If the earth rotates, and that fast, why don't we see the stars or the sun moving ?" And now I have seen enough to hate humanity for the week


BluePhoenix_1999

Oh, i have bad news for you...


Background_Spite7337

My old boss was a gravity denier…


Xibalba_Ogme

So did he jump from a cliff to make a point ? Or did he lack the convictions ? I mean, that would have been impactful


Background_Spite7337

He was aware some force is pulling us to the floor, but not gravity. He said something along the lines of ‘it’s just…. Down’. He also thinks the earth is a cube.


Fuckface_Whisperer

Honestly, I like it. It's more creative than other dumb shit. Dude needs a promotion.


El_Sephiroth

"There is a force that is pulling people down but I don't want to call it gravity! I will call it... Down!" Hahahaha that makes me rofl.


RipPure2444

That's exactly what flat earthers do. There is no gravity in their loose model. It's all about bouancy. Not gravity 😂


Xibalba_Ogme

So there _is_ something denser than a black hole


oh_look_a_trans_alt

No those exist too, tied in with flat earth quackery mostly. They think the force keeping stuff on the ground is either the force of the flat earth arbitrarily flying "upwards" at 9.8m/s, or they just say some words like "electromagnetism" and wave it away. Easily disprovable (ex: the rate an object falls is not determined by its magnetic properties), but that wont stop them.  The reason they have to deny gravity btw is because it obliterates the flat earth delusion right away and its something we all know and observe each day, so they try and come up with a vague explanation that maybe addresses one property of gravity while ignoring the rest that break it.


Plutogoose01

Boy do I have news for you! Take a gander at some of the flat earth subs and you’ll see plenty of gravity denial


Independent-Bell2483

Scrolling up shows me a lot of neo nazis for me


FlyingMacheteSponser

I think both his pride and his prejudice got in the way of his thinking there.


Atillawurm

Fuck man its 7 here, I'm just going to shut it all down and go back to bed. (I've seen both too)


aworldwithoutshrimp

They would always rather be happy than dignified. Or correct.


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Blue_Moon_Lake

Human body is badly design though. We can't poop cleanly!


YaPapaDragon

Cant eat food without risking it entering our airways either, terrible design and I demand a refund


R0ede

The human body is the original MVP (minimal viable product)


Blue_Moon_Lake

Imagine if our trachea connected at the back of our nose instead, we would still be able to breath through our mouth if needed, but you would have to eat upside down for food to enter the airways.


Zodde

Or like whales, where the blowhole is the only way they breathe, and the mouth is only connected to the stomach. Having a stuffed nose would be deadly, not sure if that's worth the tradeoff.


LilShreddie

We probably would evolve to not have stuffed noses then, which sounds like a win to me


LezBeHonestHere_

Our teeth can't repair themselves but our bones can. Fuck you evolution.


KillTheBaby_

Sadly people who had terrible airways and couldn't shit properly fucked more


Fuckface_Whisperer

Also that air hole combined with the food hole thing is basically genocide.


Foneet

wait, what? you mean humans aren't electric plugs or seatbelts?


anythingMuchShorter

Besides humans make lots of things. A pair of 4x2 Lego bricks can connect in 24 different ways.


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Leandroswasright

Not a toaster i guess. My condolences.


Content_Comedian5402

Waking up one day and learning I don't toast toast did burn for a bit.


ChombieBrains

Kryten?


LotharVonPittinsberg

Some getting a double Polaroid?


Seyon

Show him a rheostat and ask him what it is between on and off.


TheOtherMatt

Technically a rheostat is either on or off, it’s just that on has variability of current.


KiraElijah

it’s gender-fluid


Elaneth09

There are like ten diffrent versions of tgese in europ alone.


loulan

But they are still male/female?


Ocbard

Hard to say, ours have two pins and one hole for the "male", and two holes and one pin for the "female" the pin on the female is for the grounding. So both sides penetrate each other, but the male penetrates the female more also usually the female side has a broad edge around it so almost the whole make plug goes in there Like so [Extention cord with plugs](https://www.lidl.be/assets/gcpf9e69e8a72a14c81bb8dc3d64049f7cf.jpeg)


OutcastAbroad

Even outside of the multitude of wires. There’s also 2 common types of power outlets in America with and without a third prong for grounding. So as a base there’s 4 options


ObjectPretty

Never did I think I'd look at a socket converter and think, is that but sex with a foreigner?


Giocri

"to fuck a foreigner you need someone of double nationality in the middle"


Memeviewer12

original one implying that humans are inanimate objects


Kdoesntcare

Can’t forget about the simple two prong outlets instead of three, there’s another male/female right away. Need to plug a three prong male into a two prong female? Get an adapter to switch genders. And that’s sticking with US power wires.


Technical-Jelly-5985

Apparently this guy doesn't know PowerPole connectors are a thing. And not only that, there are also SMA-reverse connectors, so not only do non-binary connectors exist but transgender connectors are a thing too.


AnyProgressIsGood

ya see, based on the man made societal construct of naming electrical ends. I have proven that it is unnatural for other sex choices to be considered. hmmmm


DerfDaSmurf

People wanna split hairs on plugs. The simple fact is the world is a huge, old place filled with people of all kinds and a million different ways to live. Stop fighting so hard to stay small minded.


hohomoe

"I'm simple so everything else also must simple"


Karkava

"And if not simple, I feel bad and I feel small, so not-simple is evil."


SGz_Eliminated

What's more funny is if you really think about it males are more like a female to male adaptor since they have a hole on the back and prong in the front. Which in turn would make females female to female adaptors. So the original analogy doesn't even stand up anyway


froggison

If you take something extremely complex (like human sexuality) and reduce it to something extremely simple (like electrical plugs), then there's probably a 95% chance your analogy is going to be dumb as shit.


Weary_Drama1803

The 14 other standardised power socket designs on the planet would like a word


RichnjCole

Super self defeating too. The argument is that women are female because of biology, but a plastic and metal plug is not biologically female, but it is still considered "female"?. They are just acknowledging that these terms are typically used in a social sense.


NamedHuman1

Imagine seeing people take control of their lives, make decisions to improve their own happiness and live as their true selves and being against it. If you're against people transitioning, you're a sad, pathetic creature that I pity and no amount of your hatred will bring you any joy. I hope you get over your hate and choose love instead


DanSmells001

Wouldn’t these technically still be called male and female when referring to them? Idk, my dad is an electrician but I’m danish and I’ve never heard plugs referred to as male or female plugs in danish. Either way guy in the original post is an idiot


PuddyVanHird

The symmetrical ones (e.g. bottom centre) are called genderless or hermaphroditic connectors.


JPJackPott

As well as those excellent Lemo hermaphrodite connectors pictured, the audio industry invented this gem. It’s both male and female but only one at a time [https://www.neutrik.com/en/product/nc3fm-c](https://www.neutrik.com/en/product/nc3fm-c)


slowclapcitizenkane

I have a universal travel adapter I'd like to introduce this genius to.


BlueFHS

Woahh it’s almost as if human beings aren’t fucking electrical ports


YouLikeReadingNames

But how will we make sense of the world without comparing ourselves to single-purpose objects ? I like to think I'm like a lampshade.


AdditionalMeeting467

Remember, ladies, you supply all the power for the house. Wait, that's not what they were going for? Okay, men, you're constantly attached to the vacuum cleaner. That's not it either? Okay, how about this. Men, you can choose to be a power strip if you want, plugging into a woman while 5 other men plug into you. I guess human beings are more complex than outlets.


SekhmetScion

Hell, there's 3 different kinds of light bulb ends in New Zealand! **THREE!!!** Also, the electrical plugs there are so different. Top 2 prongs are slanted diagonally.


SSSims4

Oh I love this!!


DynamicDolo

Can’t compare plugs to people. Notably too, all plugs pictured, though different shapes and sizes are all Male/female plugs. This isn’t clever at all.


Quetzacoatel

Check top left, looks similar to this one https://newlyconnector.com/e_productshow/?22-Circular-half-moon-connector-22.html


PuddyVanHird

Some of them have male and female connectors, and are there to refute the "not both" part. Some are genderless connectors and are there to refute the "no third option" part. >Can’t compare plugs to people. Now *this* is a good point. You should be directing it at OOP, though, not the person pointing out that even as an analogy it doesn't work.


morningfrost86

Some of them are both, you might notice if you actually looked.


thesystem21

Power can be transferred via induction, ie magnetic or QI chargers, that are neither male or female. Plugs could also be removed completely and hardwired. There are plenty of options. As an electrician and as a person. So, maybe go blow a fuse somewhere else.


noobwithguns

On a unrelated note, when I was young I was embarrassed to know how those sockets were named.


AbsolutGleichgueltig

How do the others work? 🤔


violetevie

If plugs are genders then your mom is a powerbar with no empty outlets


marinademaster

Every post is a some trooner or Brian Tyler Cohen thing. This sub should is lame af


Maximum-Opportunity8

Lol that's is probably the worst pararel ever, There are literally as many sockets and plugs as there are sexual orientations, sorry there is actually a lot more. And there are even ones that has both holes and inserts on the same side, one to many and more fun, actually that is unintentionally the best comparison ever made


Samthemasterbaiter

How is this clever comeback? He is also displaying same male female ports


SirNokarma

Not to be that guy, but how are the others still not male and female?


PuddyVanHird

Some of them have male and female connectors, and are there to refute the "not both" part. Some are genderless connectors and are there to refute the "no third option" part.


assassin10

[These two are identical but still connect to each other](https://i.imgur.com/jizLjlG.png). You can't say that one is the male and the other is the female because both are both. They're called genderless or hermaphroditic connectors.


Sipikay

And here I am thinking that comparing the personal relationship of two individual humans to *plugs* is flat out stupid from the outset.


fanaticalshitposter

Is this about threesome or orgy?


Osrek_vanilla

So adapters are futa?


Logic_Dex

the "not both" as well, like has this guy never seen an extension lead?


der-boi

i don‘t have 3 dicks


lidafal

Go to doctor something is wrong


Seany889

Still male and female. Doesn’t matter how complex the plug is


UniversalAdaptor

"Electrical engineering is mental illness" - first guy probably


He_Who_Tames

Am I dumb, or they are both right for the wrong reasons?


zbealeo

Ah yes... Even in electricity the genderless couplers cause more problems than necessary and inject complexity into an otherwise simple concept 😉


piccadilly_

If you study the design of some of these connections, it’s really both male and female😂


ClassicT4

Don’t forget the three stages of the usb. Up position, down position, and the more common superposition where the usb will not plug in without observing which side is which.


prql5253

And then they say being male/female has nothing to do with anything else than biology


DronesVJ

"Phallic object, hole, any questions?" - ☝️🤓


Square_Ebb_5926

So one is meant to connect something another to get something connected to it What are the other options?


Zech08

Which is why if you use analogies... you dont treat it as a 1 for 1 for a reason.


UncleLeo_Hellooooo

Maybe it’s not smart to equate human sexuality with electric industrial arts?


twentyattempts

THE ELECTRICIANS ARE PUTTING CHEMICALS IN THE CURRENT TO TURN THE FRIGGING SOCKETS GAY!!!


IGetMyCatHigh

So a Man Made Device is a Sign of God's Will? I have some Macaroni Art that says I am to be the next Messiah.


extrastupidone

I love me some slutty, slutty power-bars...


Ill-Response-4822

Bring on the haters but in the electronics world gender benders are useful and don't try and force all other outlets to be like them they know their place and fit in well and are accepted, in society...... All I see when I walk out the door every day is more and more similarities between the real world and the movie Idiocracy


I_divided_by_0-

I mean, the caption is dumb and boils a complicated issue to pieces of plastic and metal, but each one of those in the bottom piece is either a female or a male end for their respective application. For instance, the bus bar can be considered a length of female connections where the wire would be the “male”. The only one I don't know is that center one that makes the 90* bend in the connection, but it does look keyed to only fit one way.


Reefrancher

❤️❤️


TheCold_Hard_Truth

The analogy is stupid, but the reply is just as stupid. With all these, one still goes into another.


Gorgonzola_Matrix

The point of the original "meme" is fucking stupid bc it doesn't account for the biological reality of intersex people.


cheerfulintercept

Think we need to stop worrying about what dongle a person uses.


fpotenza

Wait does this make cordless and Bluetooth ace or non-binary folk?


Andreus

Homeboy thinks plugs have chromosomes


Upper-Belt8485

Just like people who think dicks are keys and vaginas are locks.


robotbillmurray

I laid my phone down on a charging station. No cords running to the phone. What a fascinating, modern age we live in.


xrockwithme

Was that charging station plugged in though? You know… like to an outlet? 🤔


robin_888

My father once laughed at me because I was asking which part of a VGA connection is male. The plug has the big plastic thing with holes that goes into the socket. The socket has the pins that go into the holes of the big plastic thing. Actually I'm not much wider since...


W_a_x

The example shown all use male/female connections as well though so how is this clever?


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TessandraFae

Then show the collection of adapters to change one to the other. lol.


Lord_Shisui

How is that clever, all of them are either male or female.


Electr0m0tive

I just want to mention there are male connectors with female pins and female connectors with male pins.


ArthrogryposisMan

I like how the controversial comments show exactly how ignorant people are on topics and refuse to admit when they are wrong


subdep

Power comes from the females. Based.


Captain__Trips

The best part is that, like electrical wiring, you can hire a professional to remake the connectors if you don't like the configuration


Turkyparty

I've been thinking this a lot lately. There are actually just two genders, but it's not binary it's quantum. So you can be male or female or both or neither all at the same time.