Meet the Other Phone. Child-safe in minutes.

Meet the Other Phone.
Child-safe in minutes.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Sister using pronoun they...

318 replies

Merida83 · 05/11/2017 18:33

To describe my 7 week old dd!
AIBU to be pissed off and to insist she refers to my DD by female only pronouns.

OP posts:
Pengggwn · 06/11/2017 13:25

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

DJBaggySmalls · 06/11/2017 13:29

Meninist
Why does it matter?

If Mumsnet changed your username to something random like 'Onanist' or 'It' then you couldn't have a problem with that. Why would it matter?

Meninist · 06/11/2017 13:33

This reply has been deleted

Message deleted by MNHQ. Here's a link to our Talk Guidelines.

FuckShitJackFairy · 06/11/2017 13:42

When i did my 1st degree in english language and literature less than a decade ago i was marked down for using they as singular gender nuetral to refer to the reader. (Fuck knows why i choce that as with my dysgraphia it was a masacistic choice but beside the point)

WhereYouLeftIt · 06/11/2017 13:54

"She believes that gender is a social construct and as such does not wish to assign dd a gender, until she herself does so."

"the utterly rediculous thing is Dsis bought dd multiple pink gender stereitypical outfits 😂"

Rather than considering going NC with your sister, I am evil enough to have some fun with her blatant HYPOCRISY of saying one thing, but doing another. She says she doesn't want to assign dd a gender, but by buying her gender-stereotypical outfits, that is exactly what she has done! She's happy to do her 'holier than thou' act (a.k.a. 'virtue-signal') but then utterly imposes the commercially-sanctioned gender stereotype of pink-for-a-girl. 'They' my arse!

I'd pretend to be all huffy with her over those outfits, what does she think she's doing, GROOMING her niece into submissive compliant pinkness, doesn't she care about her niece, why would she do this to her, where are her principles? They must be drowned out by her feckless gender conformity.

If she is indeed a sanctimonious activist, you could really put her on the back foot, pointing out she's all talk and no action, ^obviously* doesn't believe a word out of her own mouth, and is no sort of activist AT ALL.

Likely outcomes:

  1. She goes into a huff at being called out on her glaring hypocrisy, stops coming round. (I'd call that a good result TBH.)
  2. She realises she's been a bit of an arse and dials it down a notch.
  3. She tries to make her actions match her words (nothing wrong with a bit of gender-neutrality, sadly your DD will be under seige from it soon enough.)

Either you'll get a decent aunt for your daughter out of it, or; well, you're considering NC anyway Sad.

Ereshkigal · 06/11/2017 16:00

Time to dress your daughter in a pink flowery dress, with pink tights and a bib that says 'mummys little princess' just to bug her I think

Hahaha Grinyes absolutely do this OP!

Floellabumbags · 06/11/2017 19:13

I am not dismissing her opinions, just her right to demand that I expand on what I have said, etc

Personally I think that you're missing out here. I think that if you have something coherent and worthwhile to say people will listen. As I've said, I have gone back and forth with @Datun and we've reached a place of mutual respect, which is vital for anyone to move forward. So I (as I've said before) a mother of a gender dysphoric child, would urge you to expand. You might educate someone and you might look less petulant.

Pengggwn · 06/11/2017 19:18

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Floellabumbags · 06/11/2017 19:42

But at least I'm open to discussion, which I think is more productive than shutting down conversation and refusing to engage in a meaningful way.

Pengggwn · 06/11/2017 19:46

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Ljlsmum · 06/11/2017 20:25

This is just going to confuse a child more than just using the correct pronoun for there sex.

I can't stand all of this over the top PC nonsense. Personally I don't care what anyone wants to call themselves or live as- as an adult, but when these sanctimonious probably never even had the confusion of their own gender or sex, pushing these ideas on babies it just shouts "look at me being all PC and new age".

Tell her to get over herself.

MsGameandWatching · 06/11/2017 20:39

But you ARE having the discussion, you’re still here having it Confused, responding to everyone...well not ME obviously 😁 but you are in the discussion, you’re just not contributing in a meaningful or sensible way.

GladAllOver · 07/11/2017 17:46

I am frequently open to discussion. I am not open to this discussion.
Then why on earth did you join in this discussion thread?

Pengggwn · 07/11/2017 18:31

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

GladAllOver · 07/11/2017 18:42

But you're still here?

Pengggwn · 07/11/2017 18:43

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

GladAllOver · 07/11/2017 18:48

I think you'll have to stay here for quite a while longer if you are expecting to encounter any transphobia. There hasn't been any here yet, that I have seen.

Pengggwn · 07/11/2017 18:49

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page
Please create an account

To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.

This thread is closed and is no longer accepting replies. Click here to start a new thread.

Swipe left for the next trending thread