• Getitupinyerstuffin'@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    6 days ago

    This is some poor bull shit… when did growing anything make anyone fragile?.. get outta here with your bs. Do you just go around trying to start shit?

    Why would you make up something like that? Maybe its your own masculinity that is fragile?

    • joenforcer@midwest.socialEnglish
      31·
      6 days ago

      When I was young, I got made fun of for wanting to help my mom plant and tend to a garden with basil and tomatoes. It didn’t kill my love for plants but childhood cruelty sticks with you.

      • Getitupinyerstuffin'@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        5 days ago

        I had 2 older brothers and 1 younger while growing up, we lived rurally and we would have a huge garden and we were all expected to work in it. Personally, i liked it, but I didn’t always like it cuz I was a kid I guess, but I liked it enough I have my own garden now and nobody forced me.

        I was also homeschooled, so I didn’t know a lot people, but I never got made fun of for gardener.

  • TheFrirish@jlai.luEnglish
    23·
    6 days ago

    I don’t even understand this. I haven’t heard anyone even in the alt-right say growing plants was gay

  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    11·
    7 days ago

    You avoid growing plants because it’s emasculating.

    I avoid growing plants because I’m awful at it and it’s cruel.

    We are not the same

  • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
    8·
    6 days ago

    It’s this Chinese anti-West propaganda? I wonder if it works on Chinese people since it clearly doesn’t work here

  • normalexit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    7 days ago

    If you have weed, hot peppers, and carnivorous plants, can I come over?

    Normal plants are great too, but clearly you are a person of taste.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
      5·
      7 days ago

      carnivirous and succulents are pretty finicky in thier care too. depending on the species. echeveria and outside ornamentals are easy, but if your looking at something lithops or a different succulent it might harder.

      • CucumberFetish@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        7 days ago

        How to keep a lot of plants at home alive: only buy the Aloe™ plants. I don’t know if it’s even possible to kill the ones I have without straight out drowning them. Forgot to water one of them for half a year and it started blooming instead of dying out. Now it gets watered only when I remember to water it.

  • RubberElectrons@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    7 days ago

    I like flowers and tomatoes 😎

    E: and pumpkins. Frankly this comic is just to generate anger, all the men I know with green thumbs grew all kinds of healthy and fun plants that everyone enjoyed.

  • AceOnTrack@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    7·
    6 days ago

    I grow whichever plants I want, which includes hot peppers, yes.

    But also zucchini and rhubarb and strawberries and cherry tomatoes and…

      • HikingVet@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        It has a large inedible leaf. The stalk is what you are after. The stalks can get sizable, and grow in a patch. I transplanted a root ball in smaller clumps and got more rhubarb. Easy to grow in good soil and not to much shade. Doesn’t need a huge amount of water, but dry growing conditions will create smaller more bitter stalks.

        Most times I see rhubarb in food it has been cooked to a mash consistency and sweetened. For things like pies, jams, sweet sauces for Ice cream and the like in my experience. I’m sure there are other uses. It’s pretty sour raw IME.

        Easy to store long term in the freezer as well. Cut and remove leaf, wash, either dice or leave whole, package then freeze.

  • Fleur_@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    9·
    7 days ago

    Would that not be the plants they like? Everyone’s all for gender affirmation until it’s straight men seeking affirmation for theirs

      • Fleur_@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        Exactly right. Gender is performance. We commonly enhance this performance through clothing, the way we speak and how we refer to ourselves; this is not the only ways with which it’s done though. I think it would be rude to criticise a trans man for affirming their gender by growing a beard for example. However when it comes to cis men in particular, the way they reinforce their gender is often mocked. So what if the plants some grows makes them feel more comfortable in their gender.

      • Fleur_@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        21·
        6 days ago

        What someone sees as affirming their gender is entirely up to them. Plenty of men do feel more masculine doing things like not using a straw, eating certain meals, listening to certain music, ect. Women might wear clothing that emphasises their figure. Some trans men feel affirmed in their gender by growing a beard, trans women might train their voice to feel more feminine. Gender is a performance and we all constantly make decisions to reinforce it. Thinking growing plants is gender affirmation isn’t a problem, it’s just a reality you’re not living. If someone grows those kinds of plants and it reinforces their gender identity, that’s valid and more power to them.

  • REDACTED@infosec.pubEnglish
    5·
    6 days ago

    I feel like weed does not really belong in either. You don’t grow it to be masculine and you don’t really grow it because you like to see it. A niche plant that everyone knows exactly why you’re growing it.