Uses the pronoun "judy"

[RachelGreensHair]

Never seen this one before! Anyone else want to use it?
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/feb/05/desperate-housewives-felicity-huffman-comeback-jail-hir

Thanks for reminding me of that poem NecessaryScene when I was little we had a recording of the book on cassette, and it was beautifully read. Sadly can’t remember who by. The poem was read very seriously and earnestly and I always found it really sad! The lack of connection and listening and then the sad memory at the end. Even though it’s so silly.

This springs to mind. Tartlets…tartlets!

https://trailers.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/6c500c38-ec4e-4a6e-8a14-b3965293de27/gif

I usually say whatshisname or whatshername when I can't remember a name but it is terribly sex based.

He's fine with he. He's doing a performance bit.

My pronouns are ampersand/hyphen

Do you not think this person is satirising the pronoun thing?

judy has to be taking the proverbial.

Found this explanation from judyself on the web:

”My gender is performer and my gender pronoun is 'judy’ because I wanted a gender pronoun that is an art piece, that makes people pause and consider and laugh because everyone is so uptight about getting it right.”

which I kind of have some time for and apparently as DadJoke says, he is him in his personal life.

I'm confused! who uses the pronoun Judy?! I thought it was your wan Felicity using it 😂

Yet the Guardian published it without irony. That’s the bigger problem for me.

I am outraged! This is cultural appropriation! As every right minded person knows 'judy' is a very old Irish/Scouse word used by men to describe their girlfriends.

Yet the Guardian published it without irony. That’s the bigger problem for me.

I know. Guardian innit. Wouldn't expect anything less than them not only respecting that "pronoun" but making sure they unnecessarily shoehorned it in. Where they used it, it would be more standard to use the person's name.

And it was only used in that one paragraph. So they probably know it’s bullshit but have painted themselves into a corner where the have to use it because they’ve done it for everyone else, even rapists like Karen White.

You can just imagine it, can’t you? All nodding sagely at “Judy/Judyself” pronouns while inwardly congratulating themselves on their progressiveness and being glad of an opportunity to demonstrate it.

It's clearly a jokey bit of fun to anyone who reads it. I can't understand what serious angle anyone even think exists?

If the full set of pronouns is "judy", standing in for he/him/his/himself, I'd think it has the potential to become quite confusing.

If you see Mac, could you please ask judy if judy can stop by my office and bring judy books with judy? I don't need anyone else's books, just judy - but I need judy to bring them judy.

If this becomes normalised, I suspect English will evolve similarly to languages like Korean where it's standard to just use the name every time - or to skip pronouns completely if the meaning isn't ambiguous.

(Also, Apple autocorrect insists on making "judy" into "Judy", so there's a microaggression waiting to happen).

so there's a microaggression waiting to happen

I lolled!

What you need is a family who all use judy as a pronoun. Jude and Judith with their children Juditta and Jud.

it would be absolute hell!

That's the way to do it.

What the hell is she talking about? Who is MAC? The lesbian one with the trans kid?

Not helpful. posts casually proposing violence. reporting

Taylor Mac is the writer named in the first line of the article.

What a doink.