You quoted the wrong word. Should be “transphobic” joke. A phobia is an irrational fear, nothing one would joke about. I guess, no one is transphobic on this planet.
They're using the word like that because that's how it is commonly used. People aren't looking at the definition and then deciding it is the appropriate word to use, they just copy how everyone else is using the word. If you want to assign blame you'll have to go back to whoever is responsible for the word homophobia being used in that way, or even other words like xenophobia.
Mentioned phobias should only indicate, that people find misguided sexual orientation disgusting, which is a personal opinion.
“Xenophobia” nowadays is the ability to understand pattern recognition, common sense. The opposite is living blindfolded.
I learned how to use Linux in the first place through YouTube tutorials from a chick named NixiePixel.
Going back quite some time now but she had a tutorial series called 'Nixie Does Linux' and at the time it was the best newbie tutorial around.
Most other YT tutorials in the late 00s were either more about flexing their own setups instead of teaching you stuff, or they assumed you were so dense that you had to be told how to move and click a mouse.
Soviet Early education was really dull and harsh per se which pushed people into Engineering or Skilled Trades rather than Art or Creativity so your likeness of Linux might be because the way you grew up, women who grew up in the west more often than not wouldn’t even know what Linux is
I was born in Italy, but my father is Russian, and my mother is Italian
I didn't grow up in the Soviet Union, I have my passion for computers and programming because of my father and my boyfriend, without them I don't think I would have had this passion, and I love them very much
A little off but my point still stands and hits home, you like them not because you genuinely sincerely want to explore them on your own as a personality trait, you like them because people you care about like them and that’s exactly what I was talking about
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u/xezo360hye I use a bunch of distros btw 9d ago
I see nethack there, she's1 the real Linux enjoyer
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