Pronouns got real weird on twitter with so many bougies and wokescolds posting them in their bio, people who obvious-fucking-ly didn't give a lick about trans rights and are doing it performatively like a cheap woke badge they won at the county fair. Seeing so many empty-souled libs do it for so many years on twitter has really skewed my thought process on the whole thing. Like that shit got co-opted to the point where I'd really prefer to not gender myself to strangers.
Yeah, same. I find it distracting - I don't even like usernames really.
The reality is I never use ANY pronouns (that I'm aware of) relating to other posters online. Seems like just getting rid of gender altogether would be the luxury gay space communism way- in which case mando flagging seems long-game counter-productive...OR maybe it's the step to genderlessness.
He/him doesn't mean you're a man. I know quite a few non-men who use he/him. They're not some big gender statement, you're just stating the way you'd prefer to be referred to.
When someone uses the wrong pronouns, it's using the wrong pronouns, misgendering is a thing they're doing while they use the wrong pronouns. If I didn't know your pronouns were he/him and I called you "they" I would be using incorrect pronouns to refer to you, but I wouldn't be misgendering you.
Because pronouns are an aspect of gender identity and expression
I mean yeah isn't that what I said? I don't like everybody and myself having a gender statement stamped on every post. He/him doesn't necessarily shout "I'm a man" because dogs and cats can also be he/him. But it is a statement on my gender appended to every post I make, which feels like I'm shouting "YO MAN HERE" to my chapo friends.
edit: but I'm not trying to increase the quotient of antagonism on the site so I'll keep it until we collectively forget about it.
yeah I set my pronouns and I really hate having some gender statement stamped over every post I make. Look at my cat- OH HEY I'M A MAN BY THE WAY!
Pronouns got real weird on twitter with so many bougies and wokescolds posting them in their bio, people who obvious-fucking-ly didn't give a lick about trans rights and are doing it performatively like a cheap woke badge they won at the county fair. Seeing so many empty-souled libs do it for so many years on twitter has really skewed my thought process on the whole thing. Like that shit got co-opted to the point where I'd really prefer to not gender myself to strangers.
Yeah, same. I find it distracting - I don't even like usernames really.
The reality is I never use ANY pronouns (that I'm aware of) relating to other posters online. Seems like just getting rid of gender altogether would be the luxury gay space communism way- in which case mando flagging seems long-game counter-productive...OR maybe it's the step to genderlessness.
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yeah when do we ever talk about other posters in the 3rd person?
He/him doesn't mean you're a man. I know quite a few non-men who use he/him. They're not some big gender statement, you're just stating the way you'd prefer to be referred to.
When someone calls you the wrong pronoun, you're being misgendered. how could he or she not be a gender statement?
When someone uses the wrong pronouns, it's using the wrong pronouns, misgendering is a thing they're doing while they use the wrong pronouns. If I didn't know your pronouns were he/him and I called you "they" I would be using incorrect pronouns to refer to you, but I wouldn't be misgendering you.
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I mean yeah isn't that what I said? I don't like everybody and myself having a gender statement stamped on every post. He/him doesn't necessarily shout "I'm a man" because dogs and cats can also be he/him. But it is a statement on my gender appended to every post I make, which feels like I'm shouting "YO MAN HERE" to my chapo friends.
edit: but I'm not trying to increase the quotient of antagonism on the site so I'll keep it until we collectively forget about it.