• Victor@lemmy.world
    4·
    9 months ago

    What the fuck is this meme, honestly? What’s with all the femboy stuff? There’s so many ordinary people using Linux. I don’t get it. And there seems to be something against Arch Linux users in particular? I use Arch and have a wife and two kids. Am I not normal? Should I become a femboy, fellas?

    • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world
      3·
      9 months ago

      First came programmer socks, then Rust was invented, and now (fe)men are taking matters into their own hands, correcting the gender gap in IT themselves. What’s not to understand here?

      Seriously tho, I don’t think it’s against anyone. It’s just a meme, probably originating from a high share of queer people in the IT domain and the rising popularity of anime and manga culture, where femboys are sometimes idealised.

      • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        9 months ago

        It’s just a generational difference.

        The Gen Xers get really confused because to them a stereotypical “computer nerd” is (was) a greasy 35 year old in his mom’s basement which is covered in RMS posters who would unironically 741k l1k3 7h15.

        South Park WoW guy

        To us zoomers a stereotypical “computer nerd” is a proudly neuroatypical GNC queer with a body pillow of their waifu.

        Programming socks

    • CAVOK@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 months ago

      Very weird. Started with Slackware back in 97 or so. Still not a femboy and no desire to be one.

      Maybe if I switched to arch?

    • Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca
      11·
      9 months ago

      Agreed Lemmy is rife with this shit. So much femboi fucking manga anime or whatever they call it. Cool you do you but fuck off with involving everyone else in your kink. I’m just an old fat married dude with kids trying to learn stuff.

      • Victor@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 months ago

        Yes. I subscribe to Linux memes to get memes about Linux, not femboys. It’s not relatable at all for me. Guess I’ll rethink my subscription. Maybe I don’t belong anymore.

      • OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
        1·
        9 months ago

        As long as we’re careful here. People can be however they want to be. If you’re saying people shouldn’t be making memes that assume all people are like them, yes. If you’re saying living how they want is “involving everyone else in your kink” we’re getting into iffy territory.

        • Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca
          01·
          9 months ago

          I’ll be careful. Keep your kinks where they belong. No matter who the fuck you are. Stop forcing them on communities they do not belong.

          • OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
            1·
            9 months ago

            Again, sure, but dressing with a feminine aesthetic is not a kink any more than being goth is a kink. People don’t have to abide by your gender norms.

            • Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca
              1·
              9 months ago

              Whatever man. They can gender all they want it has nothing to do with it. Sorry I used the wrong words to justify my distain. I could give a fuck how you or anyone else lives their life. I’m not anti anything but greed, genocide and pushing personal ideals like this onto others without warrant. If it was a “Christian” pushing it would be the same response.

                • Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca
                  0·
                  9 months ago

                  This thread insanely funny to me. I wear a dress every day as a man. Don’t even own pants. Not to be a femboi but because it’s comfortable as fuck. Yet here we are. I don’t give a fuck who or what you are into but pushing it and projecting it onto me is not cool from anyone.

    • oatscoop@midwest.socialEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      I feel like a lot of young linux users aren’t getting the talk and it makes me sad. Nobody ever sat them down with a copy of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and explained the life cycle of an IT professional.

      They never learn the natural cycle of things: that at a certain age a lot of IT professionals undergo metamorphosis and transform into beautiful, sock-and-sandal wearing greybeards.

      • EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world
        2·
        9 months ago

        Nah it’s more-so that the conditions have changed making femboy IT guys less likely to die or be pushed out of the environment and therefore increasing biodiversity which is a net positive for the species as a whole as it indicates good health

    • THCDenton@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 months ago

      Yup. Exactly what happened to me. Guess I could still shave my legs and where thigh-highs 🤷‍♀️

    • EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 months ago

      That’s due to oppression by the State and society that doesn’t want to allow our respected graybeards to become the femboy they deserve to be. We nust destroy this oppressive system for the freedom of the greybeards, the gamers, the Gentoo users and all other oppressed peoples ✊🏻

  • hoanbridgetroll@midwest.social
    2·
    9 months ago

    I just hated that Windows had become a privacy cesspit and I wasn’t afraid of breaking things in Linux. Also, I accept that sometimes you just have to format and reinstall your sins of stupidity away.

    • middle aged cishetguy

    PS - You Lemmy bastards did get me into Star Trek though. Maybe it has begun…

  • hardcoreufo@lemmy.world
    2·
    9 months ago

    IDK about that. Everyone I know who uses Linux is pretty vanilla. Or maybe my perspective has just shifted…

        • bier@feddit.nl
          1·
          9 months ago

          Am I the only one that just did

          Loves computers -> got an engineering degree -> had coworkers I looked up to all using Linux -> started using it myself -> wife and kids

          • DerpyPlayz18@lemm.ee
            1·
            9 months ago

            For me it went Minecraft fan -> technical Minecraft nerd -> computer nerd -> furry -> Linux nerd

  • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
    21·
    9 months ago

    There are exactly two kinds of folks in IT, soon to be or fully out anime queer folks and furries, and 60 something industry gurus who all always wear polo shirts and live in an upper middle class house despite apparently being rich as sin, also they are so hard for home security measures their backup security footage server in Montana has its own backup in a bugout bunker in New Zealand.

    I was neither so I ended up being a number cruncher for a solar company instead.

    • EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 months ago

      When a linux user is born, a random path is chosen. They will either become a hot femboy, a bald polo shirt guy or a domestic terrorist.

      So anyway there’s a feee blahaj over there.

    • bier@feddit.nl
      1·
      9 months ago

      This is just the lastest thing, it used to be the old IT guys and the ones with a beard, long hair and a metal shirt.

  • orcrist@lemm.ee
    1·
    9 months ago

    It really isn’t though. This is a pretty weak stereotype. I have so many friends that are counter examples. Hey it’s okay to make a meme if you want to have fun but if that’s how you feel then your friend group is small.

    • EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world
      11·
      9 months ago

      What if those friends are all femboys but they’re too put off by your defensiveness about it to invite you to the femboy orgies LAN parties?

  • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    9 months ago

    And the 35 or so odd well adjusted linux folks around that find anime, fishnets, thinkpads, (and all associated memes) to be annoying AF. Esp anime / manga / uwu /waifu / and everything in that microcosm of artistic styling if I’m being honest.

    I just like the software composability discussion in plain English, man, not the side of fries.

    Edit: And anyone who disagrees uses stock Ubuntu unity and unironically thinks it’s both beautiful and just as good as any other distro :P