Internets = Zwaanendael

Conversation from earlier this evening, paraphrased:

K: Why is that duck on TV wearing lipgloss?

E: ...why not?

K: Because he's a duck.

E: Your point?

G: It makes him look like a swan.

E: You say that like it's a bad thing.

G: This is how we know you're an ugly duckling. The Funny-Hatted Duck says swanhood is bad.

K: I actually don't care whether anybody's a swan in their personal life, as long as they look like proper ducks in their professional life.

E: Do you have any idea how many of my swan friends you just offended? 'My swan friends' including 'me' because I AM A SWAN. Also define 'professional look'.

K: blah blah makeup gender roles

E: You do realize that that reinforces the idea that there are differences between brightly-colored ducks and brown ducks that justify different treatment? (Also various other ideas it's not good to reinforce, but I don't expect anybody in this pond but me to be able to parse 'cisnormativity' and it's iffy whether anybody but me understands 'heteronormativity'.) And I am sick of pretending I'm a duck but I give it ten minutes tops between dropping the act and being kicked out of the pond.

K: Hey, I'm being lenient here.

G: E, you are one ugly duckling.

E: SWAN DAMMIT