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 make up something like that? Maybe its your own masculinity that is fragile?
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If growing only cool plants is insecure then I want to be the most insecure man on earth. Except for weed, that's just ugly looking grass.
It's this Chinese anti-West propaganda? I wonder if it works on Chinese people since it clearly doesn't work here
I grow whichever plants I want, which includes hot peppers, yes.
But also zucchini and rhubarb and strawberries and cherry tomatoes and...
I don't get to choose what to grow. All my plants usually die after a couple of years at most, so whatever happens not to die that's what I grow.
I don't even understand this. I haven't heard anyone even in the alt-right say growing plants was gay
Well now fosssilesque had said it
IDGI.
Most of the people (men) I know who like to grow fruit and vegetables start with apples and cherry tomatoes.
Apples because you can grow varieties you can't easily buy; cherry tomatoes because they are expensive to buy and easy to grow
That's just straight rational
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
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.
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.
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.
Wtf lol? This is completely made up
I dunno i just doubt this person exists to any great extent. All plants are great.
They do exist. They usually look like this, though:
So probably nobody on Lemmy.
I can't see them growing anything other than beards.
Bitter and resentful too.
Jesus, guys cant even wear sunglasses while driving cars now without it being seen as some kind of weird statement about what plants they do or dont grow...
Fellas, is it gay to participate in agrigulture?
Its confirmed, every farmer secretly has a boywife
Plowing them fields is hard work.
Fellas, it's it okay to have a boywife?
As long as you say "no homo".
And remember to wear socks
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according to dross's comics yes
Decorative plants are great, but harvesting something from your plants (especially if that product is otherwise hard to get / of poor quality / very expensive) is extremely rewarding!
Would that not be the plants they like? Everyone's all for gender affirmation until it's straight men seeking affirmation for theirs
Humans are strange in even assigning plants for specific genders. Just grow whatever the hell they want.
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.
Thinking growing plants is gender affirmation is precisely the problem this image is pointing out.
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.
Plant growing is gendered now?
All the cishet men I’ve known who have had gardens grew all kinds of stuff, from fruits and vegetables to culinary herbs and flowers.
Maybe I’m in a bubble but damn I feel sorry for the dudes in the OP.
Male gardeners as depicted in popular fiction:
A real alpha male helps you carry The Ring to Mordor
I grow several varieties of peppers from sweet bells to habaneros, tomatoes, okra, cucumbers, and mint, plus a few odds and ends that look cool at the garden center. I tend to grow plants that either produce more per dollar to grow than I can get at the store, or in the case of tomatoes, of better quality. And mint is eternal.
I also harvest beautyberries that have sprung up wild on my property, and have recently learned that the big weird thing looming over my wood shop is a black walnut tree, so I think I'm gonna go nuts next summer.
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Cacti and carnivorous plants are super cool tho??? Especially that you get cacti cuz of how resilient they are, a great first plant, can recommend. And growing your own food/spices as well? Also Ive never seen that stereotype lmao
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