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Lizard

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Lizard @lizard813.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

The guy from the "Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point" article

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Lizard @lizard813.bsky.social · 18/07/2024

In my personal experience, it isn't often used in that way. And its etymology doesn't have any origin in any gendered terminology. I feel like any masculine connotation it had is specific and kinda dated

Etymonline entry for "fellow"

fellow (n.)
"companion, comrade," c. 1200, from Old English feolaga "partner, one who shares with another," from Old Norse felagi, from fe "money" (see fee) + lag, from Proto-Germanic *lagam, from PIE root *legh- "to lie down, lay." The etymological sense of fellow seems to be "one who puts down money with another in a joint venture."Meaning "one of the same kind" is from early 13c.; that of "one of a pair" is from c. 1300. Used familiarly since mid-15c. for "any man, male person," but not etymologically masculine (it is used of women, for example, in Judges xi.37 in the King James version: "And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows").

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Lizard @lizard813.bsky.social · 15/07/2024

An image of Donald Trump with the top text "Claims to be prolife" and the bottom text "ah damn it he missed"

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