(CW: transphobia) Early Proto-Indo-European moment

Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem] · 7 months ago

(CW: transphobia) Early Proto-Indo-European moment

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Angel [any] · 7 months ago

On the subject of gender-neutral pronouns, I always found the "I won't call you a 'they' because it's not grammatically correct for me to do so!" argument weird for two reasons:

1. Obviously, that take is literally false. We, as a society, use "they" and "them" as singular pronouns in the case of ambiguous and unknown gender very frequently.
1. Even if it, in some sense, were true, language is not and doesn't have to be set in stone, so there's no real reason why we can't evolve language to make they/them pronouns singular at the point of needing to do so to accommodate broader acceptance of genderqueer identity.

As any other form of bigoted rhetoric goes, it serves as a lousy excuse to justify treating certain groups of people like shit just because they deviate from the norm. It's the same shit as the nonsensical "Being gay is a choice!" rhetoric that theocratic conservatives abused in the past, a time when gay people were a more socially acceptable target. The two aforementioned points are mirrored here:

1. It's false.
1. Even if it were true, it still wouldn't make homophobia a good thing.

BioWarfarePosadist [she/her, they/them] · 7 months ago

They're 100% willfully ignorant. If you point out that singular They appeared in Oxford writing in the 14th century and basically every Shakespeare play had singular they pronouns used often, you get something about how only lame nerds read Shakespeare and Oxford is for losers.

So much for the great English tradition...

Angel [any] · 7 months ago

"I bet you think you have an argument there, huh? Well, guess what, you're a NERD!!! Ha! Another wokie owned with FACTS and LOGIC once again!"

SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them] · 7 months ago

They also say how it's not actually singular they.

They're deranged fascists that can't even comprehend their own language.