Respect fire guy
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wrote last edited by [email protected]That's 100% my brother. The weirdest part, it looks so much like him I had to text him and ask if the chick in the background is an old girlfriend, because I'm genuinely not sure that's not my brother.
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Closet pyros
The closet burned down a while back
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My experience is very anecdotal, but a friend of mine who is nonbinary and Mexican American uses and prefers e endings. So novie instead of novia/novio, amige instead of Amiga/amigo, et cetera. Pronounced Ay, like "no-vee-ay" instead of "no-vee-ah/oh"
I have adopted that generally when it's come up, but for the most part of I just stress over my sentence structure to avoid gendered terms at all costs. Like when it took my several tries to avoid the terms Latina/Latino/Latine in the first sentence of this comment.
wrote last edited by [email protected]From my understanding of spanish gendered words, this seems the most logical. I'm by no means fluent tho... and in most circumstances it still seems silly and unnecessary to do this. If native Spanish speakers want to neuter their words, thats for them to do and let the rest of the world know about... Tumblr and American university students certainly shouldn't have been considered the authoritative voice on the matter.
edit: in conversation with a non-binary spanish speaker, this may be not at all silly and perfectly necessary... just to be clear
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Why is it always the guy who looks like that though? The two main friend groups I've been part of in the past decade had that one guy and they both looked very similar to the guy in the image.
They are Carriers of the Bloodline
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The OP's observation is that there is at least one white guy that fucks with keeping the fire going. There can be as many others as you wish!
Right, but it mentions a white guy specifically.
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Or gendered. I do this in my friend group. I also grill, smoke, and bbq.
Yeah my sister and I are both the fire keeper type.
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I grew up in the woods and chopped wood and did all the back-country stuff, but it wasn't until looking back way later in life that I realized that we lived in what was basically rural, racist, white America. The segregation that still exists is unfair in what it denies to children growing up. I feel like if were a black parent I might have serious reservations about taking my family out to most of rural America.
The legacy of homesteading being a "white settler" thing has left indelible marks on many places.
There's at least one organization working to fix that lingering impact. Outdoorafro.org is all about linking Black Americans with the parks and wild places that have historically been off-limits, dangerous, or discouraged.
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That's 100% my brother. The weirdest part, it looks so much like him I had to text him and ask if the chick in the background is an old girlfriend, because I'm genuinely not sure that's not my brother.
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I wonder if there is a genetic component to keeping fire for recreation or comfort.
I think all societies have a cooking on fire aspect.
The use of fire seems to play a much more active role in societies in cold climates. It seems to play a less prominent role in the tropics with warmer nighttime temperatures.
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The x endings are generally regarded as white saviorism.
Idk i always had a hard time as hungarian, my first language, doesnt have gender. Im a very proficient english speaker, almost at a native level but i do struggle with the gender stuff sometimes. Tho in daily speech i just use they/them as a fallback so i guess that works.
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Filipino is the gender neutral way
I'm a half filipino raised in america though so take it with a grain of salt, but I honestly have never seen anyone use filipinx beforeOk ill use that, its just last time i used that someone had to point out that technically the male form... i guess it still is like in spanish where multiple people with undetermined gender are adressed with the male plural right?
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Brown guy here, I like fire too
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I wonder if there is a genetic component to keeping fire for recreation or comfort.
I think all societies have a cooking on fire aspect.
The use of fire seems to play a much more active role in societies in cold climates. It seems to play a less prominent role in the tropics with warmer nighttime temperatures.
Survivalists like to boast of their skills to start a fire from scratch with no modern tool. But that wasn't the main skill in ancient times. Most societies found it easier to start a fire once and then keep the flame going through several mediums. It was a practical, mundane but vital activity that everyone participated in. The calories gains from eating cooked food was our cheat code for unlocking brain power.
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Really not trying to be rude.
I don’t have TikTok and don’t want one.
I want to be a part of online stuff such as this story you’re telling.
But.TikTok is fucking cancer on a phone/device that doesn’t have an account and doesn’t (therefore) have the app installed.
Popups of all forms. Just like sketchy websites.
It’s just a red flag. That’s all.These experiences really reinforce my decision to NOT have a TikTok.
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There's at least one organization working to fix that lingering impact. Outdoorafro.org is all about linking Black Americans with the parks and wild places that have historically been off-limits, dangerous, or discouraged.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I would love to see more people of color embracing America's wilds, if we had larger communities of color in the woods it wouldn't feel so dangerous out there. Diversity leads to people not feeling like they own a thing and can make rules about who belongs there.
I would also love to see more progressives broadly reclaim the US flag and responsible gun ownership. I feel we lost the country because we let them plaster themselves with propaganda and made it feel "gross" to support our country. We allowed the seeding of far too much "America Bad" sentiment and it led to too many young people tuning out and not caring what happens to our home.
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Brown guy here, I like fire too
I went to an engineering school and I am here to tell you that pyromancy is practiced by every type of person.
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Ok ill use that, its just last time i used that someone had to point out that technically the male form... i guess it still is like in spanish where multiple people with undetermined gender are adressed with the male plural right?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Nah, the most popular language in the Philippines is tagalog and that is already a language that's gender neutral. The word 'Filipino' is a colonial artifact---they were named after some guy named Philip. In that way, it is technically gendered considering the spanish influence, but no one I know considers it gendered in any way unless you put it like 'pinoys or pinays' etc. I know filipina or pilipina or pinay is used still, but I honestly haven't heard it much except in america, but all filipino women I know, if you just asked 'are you filipino?' they would say yes.
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Yeah, like why does race need to be involved here? Fire should be for everyone to enjoy.
There are quite a few black comedians in the USA who explain why. Basically life as a black man in the US is hard enough and there is no need to introduce recreational "challenges" like campingto feel fulfilled.
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I went to an engineering school and I am here to tell you that pyromancy is practiced by every type of person.
The best pyromancy comes from the United States, we have such classics as The German Barbeque, Korean Barbeque, Vietnam Barbeque, and California.
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Brown guy here, I like fire too
Yeah, whats the deal with "white guy"? Guys like fucking with fire. Black, white, brown, blue. If theres an alien species on the other side of the galaxy, you can bet they have something very much like guys, and the love fucking with fire.
