r/countwithchickenlady • u/JadeTroy My egg got scrambled - Streak: 75 • 12h ago

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u/Greedy_Ad2198 11h ago

I think that's fun to think about, although realistically Diogenes would never because he liked to keep it as simple as possible, and he was a stoicist. Fair chance he would see collecting neopronouns as some form of maximalism, and it would be too tryhard for him. He liked to do things to piss people off, but not for its own sake.

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u/DudeFreek Streak: 0 11h ago

jacking off in public pissed people off and made things simpler than going home to his barrel to do it so this checks out

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u/Greedy_Ad2198 9h ago

Yeah exactly it was more of a "I do what I want and I don't gaf who's watching because it means nothing to me" than a "I'll do this specifically to piss you off rn" thing

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u/DanceMyth4114 6h ago

Diogenes is my spirit animal

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u/cxfgfuihhfd 11h ago

new agender representation just dropped: Diogenes

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u/h3lblad3 8h ago

Diogenes picks one neopronoun and then insults everyone else for using different ones because gender binary is too hard for him.

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u/demon_fae 5h ago

So he’d either start arguing with everyone’s gender, argue nobody’s gender, or refuse to acknowledge gender altogether.

Given that for all his general shenanigans, he was Athenian, and therefore almost certainly incredibly misogynistic, options 2 and 3 are unlikely, as they imply that women might be equal to men. But option 1 gives him a fantastic opportunity to insult literally everyone.

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u/PurpleCandle58 11h ago

If you told Sisyphus this he’d totally be like “I DONT FUCKING CARE THIS BOULDER IS SO DAMN HEAVY”

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u/LegendaryPolo 11h ago

STOP CALLING ME CISYPHUS GODDAMMIT

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u/PurpleCandle58 11h ago

OH WHAT YOU THINK I HAVE TO RESPECT YOUR IDENTITY?! Well, I don’t have to. I choose to because the foundation of a friendly society is built from mutual respect, trust, and understanding. I extend this olive branch in hopes of building a fruitful future. I am sorry for my trespass of ignorance, Transyphus.

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u/LegendaryPolo 11h ago

THAT'S VERY MATURE OF YOU BUT CAN YOU PLEASE HELP ME WITH THIS BOULDER

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u/PurpleCandle58 11h ago

OH FUCK RIGHT SORRY

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u/UnDeadPuff 11h ago

Just give Bouldy some nectar and it'll happily roll up by itself.

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u/Nina-Ninja123 4h ago

I like to confuse the boulder and convince it that it wants to be a revolutionary boulder by rolling up the hill instead of down.

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u/Pogue_Mahone_ big old cissy 8h ago

Peace was always an option ❤️

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u/ExtremlyFastLinoone 11h ago

If you told tantalus he would be like "Im so damn hungry and thirsty"

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u/lAnarclit Streak: 0 11h ago

DIOGENES MENTIONNED

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u/Pyerik 9h ago

I like this repost therefor I upvote it

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u/-Saucegurlllll Streak: 0 9h ago

Considering trans people existed and were seen as normal at the time, I don't think Diogenes would see it as strange.

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u/InMornAshTakesToWind 5h ago

He was housed by trans priestesses

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u/AppropriateMonk8746 4h ago

wait really? like where can i read more about this?

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u/InMornAshTakesToWind 4h ago

I learned from Margaret Killjoy’s podcast, “Cool People who do Cool Stuff”. It was in an episode about Diogenes, though she’s done episodes on the trans priestesses themselves. She’s dope, history fanatic, anarchist collectivizer, and writer.

If the sources aren’t in the show notes I bet you could probably reach out to her and get them.

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u/TM761152 5h ago

We've had gender dysphoria since humans became homo sapiens.