• Broadfern@lemmy.worldEnglish
    46·
    3 days ago

    Plant growing is gendered now?

    All the cishet men I’ve known who have had gardens grew all kinds of stuff, from fruits and vegetables to culinary herbs and flowers.

    Maybe I’m in a bubble but damn I feel sorry for the dudes in the OP.

    • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      3 days ago

      Yeah this is weirdly sexist. I only know one person this describes because he’s growing weed (legally) in an apartment so he can’t have a outdoor garden

      Hell, I know over a dozen men with gardens and only two even grow peppers. Everyone grows tomatoes, though…

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      3 days ago

      yes. everything is gendered for gender warriors.

      i’m cishet and i have a garden and most women i date think it means I’m secretly gay. the cat doesn’t help.

      gardening is considered feminine, or for old people. not for younger men who are supposed to be virile and dominant. they should be hunting.

      • Pot8o@mander.xyzEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Well it looks like your garden has at least a double function - it filters out women with weird ideas about gender and sexuality 😁

      • Broadfern@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        3 days ago

        That’s wild, I’m sorry you gotta deal with that.

        Survival skills + demonstrated empathy/care with other living beings are positives for any person. Hopefully you find someone who appreciates that. /gen

      • jimmux@programming.devEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        Weird. Have they seen how much you can provide from a garden?

        Also, having a garden doesn’t preclude one from hunting… whatever that means in the modern era. You can only eat so much meat.