Elon Musk and new pronoun rules on Twitter

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It seems that people on Twitter face being penalized again for correctly sexing people and using their original names.

The new rules were quietly introduced, and Musk originally said he was “looking into it.”

Now it seems he has caved, defensively claiming that it’s only for “repeated, targeted harassment”.

So much for free speech. I guess now he’s taken a load of money from people in return for a blue tick, extra words and increased visibility, he has decided to shaft them all again. Bizarre behaviour.

If someone’s pronouns are they/them and you’re constantly finding a way to refer to them as he/him or she/her to piss them off, why should that be allowed?

If someone's chosen unusual pronouns they would like everyone to use for them and is constantly working on you to comply with their control of your language and jump through the hoops they require - without interest in what barriers this presents to you, never mind how pissed off you are or how you feel about saying things you perceive as not only a forced lie against your beliefs but a deeply harmful lie? Why should that be allowed?

Why is the trans person the only one who's thoughts, feelings, needs, wishes and preferences matter here? And why do they have no responsibilities to others at all, while everyone else supposedly has all these responsibilities towards them?

'Cry bullying' was mentioned in a recent court case. It's relevant. When someone coerces and controls (and enlists others to get you in line) because of claiming fragility and distress caused by you and your refusals to comply with what they want?

It's not a good thing.

There really seems no symmetry given here. It all seems to be one way only and that is ‘it is not that hard, just be nice and give the person the comfort of thinking they have truly changed sex. That the rest of the world supports their philosophical view on life. Nothing else should matter. Just do it! Why is it so hard!’

Meanwhile, women are describing the ways this opens women and girls to harm and being dismissed. Or told they are exaggerating the repercussions because ‘well, ‘I’ don’t interpret it like that.’ It is one step away from making accusations about being hysterical.

Meanwhile, no coherent reason to prioritise pronouns over material reality has been presented. It is truly all based on emotion and emotional manipulation.

Elon has clarified - it seems this is mandated after a court case in Brazil, and on,y applies to Brazil. X are appealing.

My confusion is that the policy is not ring marked as just Brazil. It seems to have been rolled out to everyone. Ie. I found it very easily and it doesn’t say anything about being for Brazil only.

So, either this team that we are supposed to believe is a ‘new’ and fairer team that will be managing the fairest Twitter moderators ever? or the team has taken the events in one country in the world and used it to drastically over reach and roll it out in every country the first opportunity they could and figured they could get away with it?

I wonder what is going to happen now? What is Elon going to do?

People pronounce my 5 letter name a myriad of ways.
I find it pointless to be offended.

If this is the biggest problem in someones life,then they are doing well.

I now joke about some of the better pronunciations.

My very basic 4 letter name is also open to about 4 or 5 different pronunciations and that is with native English speakers. It never even occurred to me to bother correcting someone.

Particularly if it is someone who has English as a second language and is relying on their own understanding of the English language pronunciation.

Obviously I should have been correcting people and been more insistent my chosen pronunciation.

That post just says Fixing. Can you remember what it said?

It's one of those moments when I pause to goggle that suddenly, so suddenly, I live in a world where it's actually considered hateful to speak a very, very simple and basic fact. A fact. To the point of courts getting involved to make people lie about and hide this fact.

Wtf other facts are suddenly going to become illegal to speak aloud?

He was replying to the tweet shown in the screenshot I've attached

Thank you. I'm not on twitter so can only see the immediate bit that's linked, rather than the whole bit.

I call myself ‘me’. Can I expect there to be a reply from you along the lines of “I don’t agree with me”?

Musk's decisions are based purely on his own ego. He isn't on anybody's "side" but his own.

You’d hope so, given how rude it would be to use pronouns that differ from the ones you use for yourself.

Or to be polite: One would hope so, given how rude it would be to use pronouns different from the ones I use for myself.

Thats not going to cause any confusion.

This use of “correct” or “incorrect” really gets on my nerves. Since when did the use of third person pronouns based on someone’s sex become “incorrect”, because that person would prefer me to call him “she”? For the first five decades of my life it was absolutely clear that third person pronouns reflected the sex of the person referred to, not what that person sees his or her “gender identity” as. That usage really hasn’t become incorrect because a younger generation insists that it has, any more than “wicked” has lost its old meaning just because some young people use it as a term meaning “wonderful”.

Because humans can’t change sex therefore we are being forced to lie, that’s compelled speech. Anyone can believe what they like, but they can’t force me to believe it too, and we shouldn’t be forced to pretend that we do in order to avoid upsetting someone else’s delusions.