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When customizing my pronouns, am I limited to he/him (third singular), or can I also do 1st-2nd singular and 1st-3rd plural? Doesn't feel right that my identity would only be respected when other people are talking about me. Seems like I/you/we/us would be the first priority.

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koala

@0xKoala

Nov 21, 2021

What? I don’t mean to be rude, but isn’t this obvious? English doesn’t have gendered first-person, second-person, or plural pronouns, so yes. Third-person singular pronouns are the only ones that may require clarification since they’re gendered.

Jesse Powell

@jespow

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@0xKoala

An obvious shortcoming of the language. If being ungendered was acceptable, we would just do they/them for everybody and call it a day. This is the era of personalization and customization. Now's our chance to upgrade and attach identity everywhere it belongs.

3:23 AM · Nov 21, 2021Twitter Web App

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It’s not the era of customization, but rather the era of open gender identity. Using the correct pronouns according to an object’s identity is just part of proper speech. Ungendered pronouns are always proper because they’re not correlated to a subject/object’s identity.