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I still don’t :(
I think we each have to take a minute. Their minute doesn’t count for us.
… I took a few minutes and still don’t get it. In my defense I’m stupid and on top of that my native language isn’t English, and puns often just don’t click for me
“Fighting tooth and nail” is a phrase meaning you’re in a desperate struggle, using everything available to you. By capitalizing it, it also turns tooth and nail into people with non-gendered names. That’s all there is to it, it’s just a pun.
I am a native English speaker and I don’t get it either. I googled ‘what are teeth and nails made of’ to try and give myself a clue and got this delightful generative bullshit response:
With the capitalization, I’m thinking the NBs’ names are “Tooth” and “Nail.” I think it’s a joke about NBs picking non-gendered preferred names.
TIL non-binary people name themselves after school bullies from PG-rated movies from the 1990s.
I searched for a better explanation than this but I’m pretty sure you’re right and the joke is just kind of a stretch
It’s certainly not a good joke.
I’m slow, eli5?
That’s their names. Lots of non binary people that I know anyway go by aliases.
🫡 thanks
