canine_teeth@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is something people think is true "nowadays" that has actually been true for a long time?English
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1 year agoTo add to everyone else’s replies, there’s also the muxe gender in Zapotec culture (indigenous southern mexico), which is thought to have been around since before Spanish colonization
“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger”
Both my two-time-car-crash-survivor self with severe PTSD and my breast-cancer-surviving mom (who had to get her boobs chopped off) fucking hate that phrase with a passion. There are some times I have to walk across an intersection and just start crying right there because I’m so terrified. I want to kick the nuts off of whoever came up with that phrase.