You should speak with @EricRWeinstein. I'd love to hear that conversation. Perhaps it isn't about pronouns. Perhaps there's a bigger picture. Twitter et al are carving out the framework for a new form of authoritarianism. Slowly but surely eroding what can and can't be discussed
Maneuvering through the world requires skillfully applied a variety of frames[works] in different contexts. Sometimes these frames are incomplete, nebulous, contradictory, overlapping, etc. Knowing what frames to chose is a matter of art and experience.
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Attempting to speak the truth, it seems to me, if successfully done, makes the speaker vulnerable by revealing their world view and assumptions. Testing it against an audience results in reorientation toward's the speakers view or internal reevaluate by the speaker.
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Rigidly coupling pronoun gender, in the context of daily social interaction, to apparent biological sex does not reorient anyone. Higher truths reorient people. Reality is messy. Being able to fluidly relate frames to deliver new insight is what it is about.
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