Pronouns are like so over!!

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Theeyeballsinthesky · 23/06/2022 07:22

If you can bear to wade through this long self absorbed naval gazing piece Meeeeee
the author concludes that now everyone is doing it, it no longer confers the super special status it once did on them so we should stop

he concludes “just call me by my name”

im completely shocked, shocked I tell you, that “misgendering” someone by using the wrong pronouns is actually not literal violence after all

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doublemonkey · 23/06/2022 08:12

"..and you do want to flatter yourself with your deft ally-ness..."

Charming.

JellySaurus · 23/06/2022 08:09

What a long-winded way of saying “Me! Me! Me! I’m different”.

In this case, starting with some of the most basic elements of the English language: the pronouns he and she. There’s power in sloughing off both of them, and some fun, especially when I see how befuddled the whole thing can make people. There is a certain satisfaction in making this confusion you seem to be having — What box to put Brock in? — your problem, not mine.

Not my problem. Your box is obvious: male. More specifically male who likes making other people uncomfortable.

Everyone asks me for my pronouns. To me, what that means is ‘I see that you’re a man. And I see that you’re dressed in a woman’s costume. And I would like to know whether or not you want me to participate in the fantasy you’re having,’ ” they said.

So close!

What exactly is empowering about going through life with a reservoir of internal anger, ready to explode on anyone who doesn’t understand our admittedly complicated relationships to our genders?

So using others to validate his trans identity is counter-productive to him - not unkind to others?

By the way, I'm not interested in your complicated relationship with your gender. I'm not your counsellor or your analyst. Be as feminine or masculine or androgynous as you like. I'm a woman. You are a man.

SandyWedges · 23/06/2022 07:55

I thought it was an interesting article

terryleather · 23/06/2022 07:51

Hugely privileged narc confesses that it was a status enhancing power play all along.

Absolutely no one is surprised.

achillestoes · 23/06/2022 07:49

Nobody has ever asked me for my pronouns. Hopefully I will be going out the way I came in.

Signalbox · 23/06/2022 07:48

Raging narcissist. Imagine working with this person.

JacquelinePot · 23/06/2022 07:48

Haven't read the whole thing but it's very "You like that band? They were good before everyone had heard of them" isn't it?

teelizzy · 23/06/2022 07:47

Birdsweepsin · 23/06/2022 07:40

Paragraph after paragraph of self obsessed claptrap just to say "we wanted people to obsess about pronouns but now we realise it's dumb"

Good news, I reckon

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