In other news, Gender Studies professors confirm that it's definitely not misgendering if they unilaterally decide that everyone is "they" now. I propose "postconsensual equitygendering" for the lexiconhttps://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/why-we-should-all-use-they-them-pronouns/ …
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Just blocked someone for giving "life is about tradeoffs" a go. I'm done repeating myself and today's forecast is Try Me.pic.twitter.com/Yl6CfZALQR
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The most rational gender identification I've ever seen.
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Same tho!
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Do you genuinely worry this They stuff would actually catch on en-masse? It seems to me like a very fringe-y movement with little potential for virality.
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Not really, but I find the lack of coherence incredibly irritating, especially when it culminates in me trying to explain basic social niceties to people who are already too high on their own self-righteousness to do some paint-by-numbers empathy
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I (& people I talk with) find singular-they-for-named-persons sufficiently confusing that my solution for people who don't want he or she has been to construct all of my sentences about them to eschew pronouns altogether. Involves saying the person's name about 2-3× as often too.
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Btw, by "ppl I talk with find this confusing", this isn't something they've told me. I *observe* that if I use singular-they-for-named-persons, people think I'm talking about a group, even if we're talking about someone they know uses "they". (I've also started adopting "y'all")
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