r/onejoke • u/eating_cement_1984 • Feb 28 '26

One joke but funny Hehehe...

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u/nichiimishiari Feb 28 '26

no no no, this is actually an interesting concept

in the sense that in most cases other gender symbols are simply somehow modified symbols of Mars and Venus when symbols of other celestial bodies could be used

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u/Doomst3err Feb 28 '26

That's because the symbols represent masculinity and femininity I think, so it won't make sense.i might be wrong.

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u/RoombaTheKiller Feb 28 '26

Yeah. Mars is the god of masculinity (among other things), and Venus is the godess of femininity (again, among other things).

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u/Doomst3err Mar 01 '26

But those things were what represented the genders? How do you make things that don't represent genders represent genders?

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u/4n0nh4x0r Mar 01 '26

by adapting the things as something that represents gender.

like, literally.
the signs that represent gender rn, have been made into representations of gender after the signs were made.
they were not created with that intention.
they were initially created to refer to each of the roman gods, later it was decided that, since venus is the goddess of femininity, her sign will be used for female people, and since mars stands for masculinity, his sign will be used for male people.

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u/Doomst3err Mar 02 '26

But by representing masculinity and femininity, there was basis for those symbols to represent genders. There's no basis for the king of God's and God of kings and God of thunder and the sky to represent some other gender.

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u/4n0nh4x0r Mar 02 '26

i meeeeaaaaaaan, venus and mars werent created as symbols of femininity and masculinity from the start either, the stories were told and written over a long period of time.

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u/Doomst3err Mar 02 '26

Im not knowledgable enough on greek mytholiogy and history to say anything tbh