It's like clockwork... always got a new game to play. (edit) Just going to cut out the more extreme bits of bitterness.
My friend, people tried introducing neo pronouns like a Xim/Xir and the like. Hasn't taken off really and the general population seems to have dismissed those pronouns as viable among everyone. So that leaves They/Them as the generally understood pronouns. If that isn't an option, what else is left?
Well, for one, it's commonly used as a slur against binary trans folk.
What? Like a lot of the time you can't even tell. If I see a turtle, groundhog, or young deer in the yard it's definitely getting called "it". An animal literally can not care about that.
That makes sense.
I've pretty much always used "he or she."
thank you for this post.
So I saw this mentioned a couple times, so I looked it up.
I'm not saying it's bad for every animal, but I don't like calling my pets "it" for example. You can call any sexed animal "he" or "she" without seeming weird, but calling most inanimate objects "he" or "she" other than ones we anthropomorphize like ships and cars would be pretty strange. I would prefer if there were a gender neutral pronoun that we could use for any animal.
Thank you for this. I still hate the ambiguity of it, but it's just one of many ambiguous parts of grammar. I guess I had the "don't use they/them" for singular pronouns ingrained into me too much in school. Also, my issues were NOT with people using they/them. Instead, I'm more annoyed by the language restrictions. I fully support people using any pronouns they choose.
I feel like I hear some new thing that makes me scratch my head everyday on this board. I guess I can understand it being an issue to someone for an animal they own like a pet, or cattle, or like a famous zoo attraction. But to the extent that you don't think "it" can be used for sentient creatures in general? That's wild.
They don't feel like the traditional concept of what a woman/man is/acts/looks like suits what they are or want to be.
It's this kind of entitled mindset that turns threads like these into perverbial blood baths. If you want to know something, at least have the decency to ask nicely if you aren't going to take a few seconds to look it up yourself. "not to sound offensive, but I don't get it." is just an attempt to derail or start a fight.
Vogue said:
I can almost relate, in that I don't feel particularly attached to any gender identity and probably would not mind, for example, if some freak cosmic occurrence caused me to wake up in a woman's body one day. I'd feel that nothing of significance about my identity had changed.
You know what... I'm going to address this a bit more in depth. You are not an ally. You are not a hero. You are not a savior. You are absolutely 100% part of the problem. You THINK you're one or all of those previous things because you like to tell yourself that you are. You WANT to be those things, but you don't want to have to prove it or stand openly for something. You want to be able to jump into a conversation and go "Oh yeah I totally support trans rights!" but you don't want any even slight inconveniences that would come with any of those tags.
People who do this should be forced to use the 2nd-person singular "thou".
