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Self indulgent or what?

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GCmiddle · 06/09/2021 15:59

Read it and weep (or laugh!)
www.them.us/story/multiple-sets-of-pronouns

OP posts:
Igmum · 06/09/2021 16:38

[Looks at diary trying to figure out when I am going to find time to schedule in multiple sensitive pronoun conversations with everyone I interact with on a regular basis. Holds head in hands]

AnyOldPrion · 06/09/2021 16:37

Sorry OP, I couldn’t read it. My eyes were rolling too much.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 06/09/2021 16:36

The folksy folks thing is bizarre, I agree.

QueenPeary · 06/09/2021 16:33

Blimey.

I resist linguistic structures that prioritize classification and stability over expression and fluidity.

They're called words dear, words.

And "folks" - why do genderists always talk about "folks", as if the concept of erasing women, sex categories and same sex attraction won't be worrying if it's all done by those nice folksy folks?

I am really at my wits' end with this at the moment.

Kanaloa · 06/09/2021 16:32

The whole thing just feels like someone saying I am special, I can not be defined by the boring words that define others - I’m not a boring he or she like normal people.

BraveBananaBadge · 06/09/2021 16:32

Jesus Christ. Did anyone actually get to the end of that? Absolutely insufferable.

Demanding people indulge this made up toss while simultaneously being pass-agg dismissive of anyone who can't keep up. Linguistic gaslighting, much?

Kanaloa · 06/09/2021 16:32

What is ‘xe?’ Like how do you say it, what does it mean? I presume it would be pronounced with a soft x, but then to you say yes xe works at xyz?

Ereshkigalangcleg · 06/09/2021 16:30

that my gender as a non-binary person cannot be reduced to being “a they.” In fact, it can’t be contained in any single word. The point isn’t that it can be contained in two words she and they. Rather, in the murk of asking that folks shift between the two, I resist linguistic structures that prioritize classification and stability over expression and fluidity. I become a queer little problem for anyone indeed any system — aiming to absorb the rupture wrought by non-binaryness by casting it as a third gender. This is all to say I locate my identity less within the pronouns she/they, and more through the conjunction that joins them: not or, but and. And affords an openness to multiplicity, to those changes upon changes that construct our ever-forming selves.

"Siri: define narcissism."

Yerdoinmanapperinwiyerpish · 06/09/2021 16:26

you have to “gently ask” what pronouns are used,

I’m presuming I have to do that with my cis mouth.

They’ll be a long time waiting till I find it…

FrancescaContini · 06/09/2021 16:22

Jeeeeeeezus

Note: you have to “gently ask” what pronouns are used, not “assume” = you have to walk on tiptoes around me and not dare cause me any offence.

I’ve never ever read anything so self absorbed although there were a couple of new words for me in there: “gendervoid” pretty much sums up this bullshit.

RoseisMadder · 06/09/2021 16:18

I wonder what ages those people are, more relevant than pronouns…. I’d put money on late teens/early 20s

Yerdoinmanapperinwiyerpish · 06/09/2021 16:14

I’ve got cis ears????

ditalini · 06/09/2021 16:12

Exhausting.

lazylinguist · 06/09/2021 16:11

Fgs Hmm

drinkingwineoutofamug · 06/09/2021 16:10

Wow and not a good wow

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