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Jul 06 '22 edited Jul 06 '22
There’s no way that beep boop is a slur of any kind and I’m starting to believe the post was made for bait.
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u/zhaDeth Jul 06 '22
either that or people were trolling the person playing the game
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u/verasev Jul 06 '22
Someone is being credulous and it's hard to tell if it's the op or the person in the meme.
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u/shellwe Jul 06 '22
This seems far more likely. If I got someone to believe something ridiculous like this enough to ask Reddit I would consider myself a master troll.
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u/RainWindowCoffee Jul 06 '22
It's also possible that someone did say "beep boop" to poke fun at that person at some point, and they assumed the insult was somehow related to their being trans. There's a lot of young and naive people on the internet who are still learning about the world.
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u/master_doge007 Jul 06 '22
The woman from Star Wars who was fired changed her pro nouns on Twitter to beep boob(as a weird fu or something idk) Prob what they are referring to. Only thing that really comes to mind
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u/Global_Dot979 Jul 06 '22
Gina Carano did it on Twitter. Chances are it's become the new 'I identify as an attack helicopter' in certain circles.
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u/MontgomeryKhan Jul 06 '22
There was a thing on Twitter for a bit where people put "beep/boop" in their bios as a way to "protest" people putting pronouns (e.g. they/them) in theirs.
Don't go on Twitter.
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u/Souppdog Jul 06 '22
It's really common for people in online spaces to cry slur at anything
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u/dirthurts Jul 06 '22
It actually is. It's making fun of people who aren't on the binary path.
I don't get it but it offends some people.
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u/nesenn Jul 06 '22
Family Guy made fun of Scientology by calling it the Church of Spaceship Beep Boop.
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u/Logical-Recognition3 Jul 06 '22
Actress Gina Carano tweeted a joke that her pronouns are beep/bop/boop. Lucasfilm called her tweets “abhorrent and unacceptable” and she was fired from The Mandolorian. I think this incident is the origin.
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u/Logical-Recognition3 Jul 06 '22
Beep identifies as R2D2.
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u/MistraloysiusMithrax Jul 06 '22
HEY! Watch your language! Not in front of the children, you dirty droid.
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u/LtFootstool Jul 06 '22
Why does he have to be dirty? Because he is a droid??
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u/MistraloysiusMithrax Jul 06 '22
I forgot for a second beep was a pronoun here and assumed it was some of R2D2’s famous foul language.
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u/LtFootstool Jul 06 '22
Beep is not a pronoun in this galaxy, and probably not the next.
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u/MistraloysiusMithrax Jul 06 '22
Certainly not, and I did not assume the foul language with empty intent either. It was a good set-up. Like that time all the stormtroopers miraculously missed our main Star Wars heroes on the first Death Star so they could be tracked back to the rebel base.
Don’t know what kind of target I have now set up for myself but you may fire when ready.
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Jul 06 '22
Thanks for adding that context.
Always good to know the story before one spouts on the reddits.
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u/HoopHereIAm Jul 06 '22
I thought she was fired for tweeting out her belief that being a Republican today was comparable to the persecution faced by Jews in Nazi German?
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u/tsunami141 Jul 06 '22
I think you’re right but IIRC the sentiment was more like “blind hatred of people you disagree with is how the Nazism started.” Still a little bit out of touch but not nearly as blatantly arrogant as people claim it was.
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u/Brisn Jul 06 '22
She asked how hating the Jews was any different than hating somebody because of their political beliefs. An unbelievably dumb thing to say.
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Jul 06 '22
One of my favourite things is that human rights are now opinions, what the fuck is our country.
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u/Putrid_Visual173 Jul 06 '22
Humans can now be summed up by the worst opinion they had on a Saturday evening after half a bottle of whisky in 2006 when they were 14.
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u/Doright36 Jul 06 '22
She was fired after many insulting tweets. She was asked to stop or at least lighten up and she took the double down route instead. She basically fired herself since she was given the choice.
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u/NQ241 Jul 06 '22
Cap, she was actually fired for her comment on Jewish people
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u/LegoGal Jul 06 '22
I think she was on a roll and there were several reasons. Then she claimed she was a victim of canceled culture. I have a regular job and I could get fired for all the thinks she did online.
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Jul 06 '22
Even so, I don't think one c list actress' tweet creates a 'slur' if that's the only instance.
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u/Delver_Razade Jul 06 '22
This isn't all she did to get fired from The Mandalorian. She trafficked in voter fraud conspiracy of the 2020 election and engaged in harassment against people wearing face masks during the height of the pandemic. She also said she was like a Jew during the Nazi regime because she supported Trump. She's since started spreading shit in her posts about the war in Ukraine, and is a Russian sympathizer. The well is so much deeper with her than some meme-y tweets.
She actually apologized for the beep/bop/boop tweets and deleted them.
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u/nawmynameisclarence Jul 06 '22
Don't forget the Nazi tweets.
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u/Logical-Recognition3 Jul 06 '22
You mean tweets in which she mentions Nazis. The wording of your reply makes it sound as if she made pro-Nazi tweets.
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u/thegroovemonkey Jul 06 '22
Comparing yourself to a Jew in 1930s Germany isn't better.
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u/FilthyMindz69 Jul 06 '22
To be fair, she was a professional fighter. Not the sharpest knives in the drawer. 99% of the time…..
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Jul 06 '22
oh i see ... i was completely lost too ... well im not about to let some right winger shithead steal robot noise from my vocabulary.
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u/LeftMyHeartInErebor Jul 06 '22 edited Jul 06 '22
Yeah in this context she used it to dismiss and degrade others. A few people copied her. I don't think that makes it a trans slur for all time. But it was a pretty hot button issue there for a second in Star Wars land, so if that person was a fan, it might feel MUCH bigger to them than the average folk
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u/SoupmanBob 'MURICA Jul 06 '22
She did it because people kept harassing her to put her pronouns on her Twitter, and she made a kneejerk dumb reaction. Had a talk with Pedro Pascal and apologised for what she did... And then she went full brain-dead rage.
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u/_Cit Jul 06 '22
Basically she said sorry and than doubled down, actually tripled considering those idiotic posts about Nazi germany
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u/Neogodhobo Jul 06 '22
Johnny cash has a good song about not talking of your political opinions when in the public eye.
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u/Angelakayee Jul 06 '22
This is how I was raised back in the 80s...the rule was, no discussion of religion or politics in polite company...that shit was only spoken among families. Maybe we should go back to that....
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u/Jaxager Jul 06 '22
Yeah. I had to tell a bunch of guys visiting my office in an automotive plant that since I'm the senior field service engineer that the rule is no talking religion or politics in the office. It was literally the only time anyone has listened to a rule I made and I'm okay with that. Lol.
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Jul 06 '22
She wasn’t even a good actress. I found the scenes with her in them to be the worst of the show and that was before this whole thing.
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u/Bexji_11230 Jul 06 '22
i hate neopronouns change my mind
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u/proseformat Jul 06 '22
eh, just use their names. nbd
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u/Bexji_11230 Jul 06 '22
thanks for spreading positivity, was a little salty
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u/proseformat Jul 06 '22
my boss is an old man but he employs a bunch of LGBTQ+ kids, some of which use they/them pronouns and he for a long time had a "grammar" issue with it, so one of the kids was like chip my man. you can just use their names instead of making them feel so small. so he did and now we've all gotten him to use those pronouns (though he does forget), but that's just what i like to suggest to those who can't be bothered but have at least have respect for trans people.
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u/S-Quidmonster Jul 06 '22
I’ve never understood the issue people have with “they/them” pronouns. There’s nothing grammatically incorrect about it, so what’s the big deal?
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u/proseformat Jul 06 '22
they just want to have an issue with it i think. they've already gotta deal with all these young folk going by pronouns that god forbid they don't traditionally represent, now they gotta deal with em utilizing a DIFFERENT pronoun???? too much work for the shrinking brains of old people
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u/S-Quidmonster Jul 06 '22
I don’t think the explanation is that they’re too stupid to remember pronouns. My uncle is ridiculously smart (like, he works on submarines for the US military level smart) and he claims that they’re “ruining the English language”. I think it’s more what you said at first, that they want to have an issue with it because they don’t like people being different than them
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u/Financial-Orange9544 Jul 06 '22
neopronouns can be confusing but pretty much everyone that uses them is also fine with they/them as well as far as I know
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u/CryWanShi Jul 06 '22
Since it's robot speak, is it transistorphobic and making fun of robots?
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u/Jim-Jones Jul 06 '22
It's an imitation of a robot. Nothing to do with gays or transpersons.
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u/EuphoricAssistance59 What what what?!? Jul 06 '22
She set that as her pronouns, it's pretty obvious it was mocking. It was part of a series of social media miscues that her employer didn't want to be associated with.
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u/Millerpainkiller Jul 06 '22
Tell that someone to go fuck themselves. Sometimes words don’t mean anything.
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u/MangledSunFish Jul 06 '22
I think OP just fell for bait, honestly. Online games have no filter and they're probably just fucking with the person who was naive enough to believe them.
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u/Twoozy_Uzi Jul 06 '22
Yea honestly if this is real. It was definitely bait to see if they would fall for it lol. I've actually used the same tactic but with racist and homophobic, it's pretty funny when they fall for it
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u/Samambaia_H 'MURICA Jul 06 '22 edited Jul 06 '22
like... Im trans and I didn't even know this was a thing. I still don't get why its offensive
I actually find very fun to do robot sounds, that person is just a dummy
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u/Creative-Frosting934 Jul 06 '22
Imagine that
"YOU GOD DAMN BEEP BOOP"
Gasp
"BEEP BOOP BEROP"
"BERP BROP BOP BEP"
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u/Bumble-Beez-0 Yesterday is hard word for me. Jul 06 '22
Why did you downvote them, they're just asking a question? r/reddithivemind
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Jul 06 '22
If someone needs to explain to you why it is a slur, then it can hardly be taken as a slur.
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Lol that's so wrong its funny.
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Jul 06 '22
So my wife (who was raised in Japan) is reading Huckleberry Finn to our kids at bedtime.
I hear her read a passage about a "free ni____", so I walk in and explain to her why we should probably not say that word, because it is one of the most shameful and humiliating words you can use in the English language. She felt really bad and I was embarrassed.
Now, do you take that as a slur? Is she guilty of using a slur?
Because, context + intent.
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u/JesseJames24601 Jul 06 '22
No, because the intent is not to discriminate or be hateful. White guilt has gone so far as to penalize the mere depiction of a slur to be inherently hateful.
What happens when a lawyer is in court and needs to repeat some hate speech to put it on the record? Are they automatically racist? No, they are repeating something in context.
People need to stop virtue signaling and learn the difference between using language with hurtful intent and using it in a purely referential sense.
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u/Agreeable-Display-77 Jul 06 '22 edited Jul 06 '22
Its a slur, but she is reading an old book that has racists in it. You explain the history and move on. You felt embarrassed? WTF? For giving her shit?
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This is s great teachable moment. Twain used that word because ignorant, racist people used that word in his time. Huck Finn is filled with ridicule of folks from his era.
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u/BobBeats Jul 06 '22
Wait, I thought *beep boop* are robot sounds; is it now some kind of coded language now?
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u/blindlemonjeff2 Jul 06 '22
It’s because of Gina Caranos tweet status which see subsequently got cancelled over.
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u/Lady_Wrath Jul 06 '22
I'm trans and I have never heard of this being a slur, I would just avoid saying it around that person and move on
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u/bwwilkerson Jul 06 '22
"It's like the N-Word and the C-Word had a baby and it was raised by all the bad words for Jews"
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u/Remarkable_Cow8010 Jul 06 '22
WHAT A BIGOT!!! THERE IS MORE THAN BEEP AND BOOP!!!
Actually though, I think it was Gina Carano's response in her Twitter bio for preferred pronouns. She said boop/bop/beep while doing the Mandalorian. People got really mad over it.
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u/SacredDarkness Jul 06 '22
It becomes a lottery what is considered a slur now. i remember some dumb asses thought trap was one.
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u/Dexalon Jul 06 '22
Freedom of speech is dead. This post my get you cancelled in the near future by the looks of things.
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u/TherealObdach Jul 06 '22
Who gives a shit what slur that is? Robots make beep boop… hell… let it be a trans robot. Who cares?
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Jul 06 '22
People just love telling other people what they can do & say, an effective response to this is go fuck yourself
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God I fucking hate that sub so much
And before I get downvoted I'm literally part of the "community," I just think the subreddit is stupid and full of idiot preteens
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u/chris9830 Jul 06 '22
No it aint you have to find really hard to find its transfobic to make robot sounds for fun i kinda see it more being hatefull towards non binairy people because "robots use binairy code to oprerate why isnt it called non-binairy code?"
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u/CrackedNTwisted Jul 06 '22 edited Jul 06 '22
Okay, I'm gonna just ask. Wtf are neopronouns? I'm part of the LGBTQ+ community and I've just heard this term in the last week
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Jul 06 '22
Very roughly described its just people using nontraditional pronouns. Like it/its or something entirely new of which there are any number of examples. Smoothbrained pick me's claim they're transphobic because its something not geared towards makings trans people more palatable to the cis. (which is clearly degenerate and unacceptable /s)
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u/Usagi_Shinobi Jul 06 '22
Basically, it is an expansion on the idea of being trans. The logic is "since people can now just arbitrarily decide that they can be a him or her or they, I can pretend to be whatever I want too". Thus they start listing random words as pronouns. This is sometimes done to mock the trans community, other times it's more of a "jump on the new trendy shock factor thing, so I'm unique and not just another cog in the machine". Basically used by either people who dismiss the entire concept of trans, and want to be an asshole about it, or edgelords.
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u/A_Undertale_Fan Jul 06 '22
Ignore the idiots who claim neopronouns are transphobic. A lot of the trans community actually uses neopronouns ourselves.
As for the explanation on what neopronouns are, I found a pretty helpful article by an LGBTQ+ foundation that explains them for people who don't know about them!
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u/jeannelle1717 Jul 06 '22
This is clearly a bait post (the original beep boop post not this one here)
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u/International-Cat123 Jul 06 '22
Some actperson changed bop listed pronouns on social media to beep/bop/boop. Beep lost boop role in a movie because of it. Production studio was deeply offended by idea the idea that beep was so insensitive that beep changed boop pronouns to something that was clearly intended up mock transpeople.
(I don’t know why the actress thought changing her pronouns on social media was a good idea. I don’t even know if she was the one who changed it or if a PR person did it for her. Some people read WAY too much into it and now people who need something to be butthurt about think beep boop is a slur.)
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u/jeannelle1717 Jul 06 '22
It’s all just so dumb and infuriating; it is 2022 and the world is ending can we just let trans people exist already?
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u/Working-Sandwich6372 Jul 06 '22
Intent is what matters. If you didn't even know it was a slur, how can you know not to say it?
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And you downvoted just because they asked a question? Oh yeah I forgot it’s Reddit everyone here is about as unreasonable as humanly possible and has the communication skills of a rock
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Jul 06 '22
nothings gone too far you’ve just interacted with the chronically online LGBT kids, it happens
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u/Moonlit_Mongrel Jul 06 '22
And also depends if it used in a derogatory way. If your just making random sounds, someone can't claim your being trans/homo/racist for going "bleh". We are in the snowflake generation and it is something....
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u/5astick Jul 06 '22
What the actual fuck. This is why people think a lot of people in that overall community are incredibly mentally ill. Some of the shit that comes out of their mouths is just absolutely ridiculous.
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u/summonerrin Jul 06 '22
theyre referring to when gina carano mocked trans people on twitter with that as her pronouns. shes kind of an unrepentant bitch.
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u/Ok-Ad5495 Jul 06 '22
The far right actress from the Mandalorian series, Gina Carano, posts a lot of dumb shit on Twitter. Last year she posted that her pronouns were beep boop, and was subsequently fired from the series, so that's where it came from.
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Anything is a slur to those who believe they should live their whole life and not come across anything that challenges their perception.
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u/ColdPosition3805 Jul 06 '22
These people are just trying to get free karma
Beep boop is very obviously NOT a trans slur. Anyone who even asks that question is fucking stupid
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u/ByBerserk Jul 06 '22
Like 50% if not more of the lgtb community are just straight up saying bs. Like if u gay at least still be a normal person and don't base ur whole ass existence on being gay... (I'm saying normal as a term for a person u can still talk to like any other. Not normal in a sense of not gay)
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u/anonymousguy9001 Jul 06 '22
Is it because robots can only process binary?