doing a friendly chat with hillary clinton, a war criminal who is directly responsible for countless deaths abroad and at home, while making a career as an edgy radical left video essayist is incredibly hilarious pic.twitter.com/a9Y2nh4ePe— ☀️👀 (@zei_squirrel) September 19, 2022
If you're using it universally, it isn't. If you're using it for trans people expressly using gendered pronouns, it's a common form to express you do not really view them as valid without being too openly transphobic.
他 isn't neutral anymore, but it was until the 20th century. I don't think that's the reactionary part of your post though, so much as insisting that the entire writing system is full of "nastiness, sexism and transphobia" without further clarification.
I don't want genderless though - I'm a woman and would like to be affirmatively treated as such. assuming that degendering is appropriate on my behalf is just as much intentional misgendering.
yes, default to neutral choices when referring to unknown or unspecified people, or for those whose pronouns you do not know. but a new genderless language dropped wholecloth on the present solves literally nothing about either sexism or transphobia.
the problem isn't language - it's that people think we're women and not-women, men and not-men, at the same time! better ways to hide that fact without addressing the contradictions at the heart of society is a defense of the status quo, a way to sweep the problems of the present under the rug.
yes, I'm coming off strong about an innocuous comment but this is liberalism and Combat Liberalism.
the problem in this particular case where there was ambiguity between someone referring to breadtubers as a group they or misgendering a woman with singular-they is absolutely a language problem, and my wistful dreaming of that not being an issue is not meant to address the larger social issues.
if you know someone's pronouns, use them. they/them is only correct if someone explicitly tells you they're comfortable with them or if you're speaking about someone non-specific or a third-party who's pronouns you don't know. transphobes routinely address binary trans people with they/them in order to misgender with plausible deniability.
Is using a neutral they transphobia? Ive been using they to refer to basically anyone and everyone including cis men and women
EDIT: She clarified further about the “they” to refer to streamers as plural https://mobile.twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1572018297377558528
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If you're using it universally, it isn't. If you're using it for trans people expressly using gendered pronouns, it's a common form to express you do not really view them as valid without being too openly transphobic.
I think you wildly misinterpreted them regardless
https://mobile.twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1572018297377558528
ambiguity :sadness:
but we don't really have anything better, genderless conlang when
Just use a non European language, no conlang required
Chinese "ta"s keep winning.
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Lmao yes we must abolish the Chinese languages.
Mao tried to abolish characters. It didn't take, unfortunately.
Mod removed my post explaining that the Chinese "ta" isn't neutral whatsoever.
"The writing system must be reformed; we must move in the direction of a globally unified phonetic spelling system."
-- People's Daily, 20th of December, 1977
他 isn't neutral anymore, but it was until the 20th century. I don't think that's the reactionary part of your post though, so much as insisting that the entire writing system is full of "nastiness, sexism and transphobia" without further clarification.
I don't want genderless though - I'm a woman and would like to be affirmatively treated as such. assuming that degendering is appropriate on my behalf is just as much intentional misgendering.
yes, default to neutral choices when referring to unknown or unspecified people, or for those whose pronouns you do not know. but a new genderless language dropped wholecloth on the present solves literally nothing about either sexism or transphobia.
the problem isn't language - it's that people think we're women and not-women, men and not-men, at the same time! better ways to hide that fact without addressing the contradictions at the heart of society is a defense of the status quo, a way to sweep the problems of the present under the rug.
yes, I'm coming off strong about an innocuous comment but this is liberalism and Combat Liberalism.
the problem in this particular case where there was ambiguity between someone referring to breadtubers as a group they or misgendering a woman with singular-they is absolutely a language problem, and my wistful dreaming of that not being an issue is not meant to address the larger social issues.
if you know someone's pronouns, use them. they/them is only correct if someone explicitly tells you they're comfortable with them or if you're speaking about someone non-specific or a third-party who's pronouns you don't know. transphobes routinely address binary trans people with they/them in order to misgender with plausible deniability.