Goddamn so everyone’s a bastard, eh?

Reposted yet again.

As usual, the documentation covers these answers plus much more.

• Bash command line editing covers searching.
• Readline library command line editing covers searching.

You claim anecdotally that a lesbian wouldn’t say they scissor. Pointing out that they do say it suffices. Your experience doesn’t encompass all lesbians of every generation, so we can refer to LGBT+ publications, direct anecdotes, history, & scholarly research. We have direct anecdotes from a podcast & affirming comments. The wikipedia article even calls out exactly what you’re doing & cites scholarly research. It explains with references that it is or was common for some tribadists not to recognize that word (or variants) & use scissoring more broadly to describe their activity.

Elsewhere, you add that a specific sense of scissoring (that the comic didn’t specify) of rubbing genitals together isn’t real. The cited references have some interesting quotes. In a Hite report

Sex with a woman for me has involved kissing, feeling one another completely, and basically humping – pressing mound of Venus against mound of Venus or each other’s leg.

Another cited reference explains tribade historically meant a woman taking the role of penetrator (with dildo or clitoris) before describing Anne Lister’s diary where she mentions genital to genital contact in her tribadism.

Most of their sexual activity seems to involve Anne touching Mrs. Barlow’s “queer” (as she calls the female genitals) and tribadically rubbing on her.

Anne manipulates Mrs. Barlow digitally but would prefer full-body tribadism, queer to queer, as she says elsewhere.

So, they do say they do that, too, even ages ago.

As for the ngram viewer, it’s not essential, however

• it’s true the corpora don’t reflect general language & culture, only that in a corpora including over 40 university libraries around the world
• similar trend as corpus without scientific literature indicates that’s not a source of bias
• we’re only reviewing recent texts with high quality OCR, so OCR issues don’t apply: OCR improved, not poorly printed archaic texts, tribbing doesn’t contain mistakable characters like long s ſ so OCR error should be uniform, not Chinese or a language difficult for OCR.

It indicates tribbing hasn’t historically appeared in print much.

pride.com says it’s real

Scissoring is specifically genital on genital tribbing. Some people find varying degrees of success with scissoring vs. other forms of tribbing, but it’s definitely a thing (despite what many have come to think).

No, it’s not going to look like when you made your Barbies scissor (and we know you did) because humans have joints, and fat, and can get tired in strenuous positions. But with enough practice, communication, and trouble shooting, YES it is attainable for you to scissor if you really really want to.

The podcast they link to corroborates

“People are also spreading rumors that lesbians don’t scissor, which I don’t understand,” McCafferty said. “I’m like, that’s not true.”

“It’s literally all I do,” Myrick deadpanned.

The two commiserated over apparent frustrations that even lesbians are saying scissoring isn’t a thing.

“I’m like, ‘Then what are you doing?’” Myrick fired back, before turning the blame onto the wider availability of strap-ons in the midwest.

Wikipedia mentions the debate

Some lesbian and bisexual women do not engage in the scissoring position because they find or think it would be physically uncomfortable. They may also think it is a misconception that lesbians engage in the act and is therefore not representative of lesbian sexual practices, attributing it more so to the male fantasies of the heterosexual porn industry. By contrast, some sources, including Shere Hite’s 1976 and 1981 research, indicate that women may enjoy performing the scissoring position with other women because it is a variation of vulva-to-vulva contact or can allow for maximum such contact and therefore an elevated level of intimacy.

and that scissoring is a common umbrella term, which matches my recollection

Scissoring is commonly used as an umbrella term for all forms of tribadism, and many lesbian and bisexual women are unaware that some of the sexual acts they include in their lovemaking are aspects of and are formally labeled tribadism, as tribadism is commonly omitted from mainstream sex research.

It also mentions that tribade and related words had become archaic by the 20th century. ngrams confirms tribbing was obscure until it only recently took off in the last decade: I think pretty much everyone called it scissoring or rubbing before.

Are there really that many blind (or perhaps low-sighted?) people surfing specifically memes communities though?

If you neglect the matter, then you’ll ensure the systemic discriminatory exclusion here continues. Mastodon & other social media platforms regularly set alt text.

Accessibility is definitely difficult

It ain’t: you already have the text. Set it.

it is really hard for someone without specialized tools to even so much as see that accessibility text

It isn’t. Pretty much every OS nowadays has it built in so it can be enabled. Boldly claiming otherwise indicates ignorance. Instead of proclaiming untrue assumptions as fact, it’d be better to admit your inexperience & ignorance on these matters and address that: I seriously doubt you tried.

And looking at several previous post to this community

Bad example to follow.

So what is your argument for any added value that offers

Accessibility adds value to everyone: introduction. That ableism is wrong & we can address it as was indicated shouldn’t be hard arguments to figure out.

So what is your argument for any added value that offers, for someone to see simply the single word

Straw man: not suggested at all, which you would know if you followed the accessibility link that was provided.

Looks like social media done right. 😄

no excuse for breaking accessibility by not at the very least setting alt text

lemmy has a search feature broken by inaccessible images of text

are not spread rapidly by Internet users, and rarely posted with any variation

Most of the shit on here hasn’t been shared widely or rapidly. They’re at best aspiring memes.

The community should be renamed non-memes. If not, then that community should be created & every non-meme here cross-posted there.

because of reasons

like definition. words mean things? what nonsense.

Post needs accessibility.

This comment section: people who’ve never cracked open an economics textbook or seriously thought about this.

Intermediaries can bring down distribution costs. It’s pretty easy to see how.

Consider N farmers & M markets: that results in NM trips to distribute all their goods to every market. Add a single intermediary: this reduces to N + M trips to distribute goods. This reduces overhead costs. The farmer can sell in bulk to the intermediary. The intermediary can ship in bulk goods of all farmers to the markets. Less fuel & time is wasted transporting everything.

Partners can specialize in their respective tasks. Farmers don’t need to rent booths, put their goods on display, wait there all day, or handle all the customers at each market.

Imagine not claiming female as a word of pride but instead trying to realize some inferiority complex by promoting the establishment of sexist language that makes the word for an entire gender a demeaning slur.

Needs alt text.

I don’t go to sites full of ads, or if I do, I just switch to reader mode and poof better readability without ads.

I really want to upvote this, but it lacks alt text. 😞

U MAD, bruh?

facts about natural processes don’t need “justification”

rage bait

that’s in the eye of the beholder & Y U MAD, THO?

I didn’t know I liked Taylor Swift until now. Still needs alt text.