memes

10334 readers

1762 users here now

Community rules

1. Be civil

No trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour

2. No politics

This is non-politics community. For political memes please go to [email protected]

3. No recent reposts

Check for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month

4. No bots

No bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins

5. No Spam/Ads

No advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live.

Sister communities

[email protected] : Star Trek memes, chat and shitposts
[email protected] : Lemmy Shitposts, anything and everything goes.
[email protected] : Linux themed memes
[email protected] : for those who love comic stories.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

830

My heart will go on but his won't. (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

114 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

Cool. I'm still calling you 'you' and 'they' because that's how English works.

They are gender-neutral words.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago

That's the correct answer. This "drag" business has to do with this individuals kink of sex with dragons, as alluded to in their bio. I'm not kink shaming, but it is bad form to force others to participate in your kink without consent, even in a nonsexual context. Honestly, I'm not entirely sure they aren't a troll.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Drag doesn't want to be referred to gender neutrally. Drag wants drag's gender affirmed. It isn't hard. You're going to all this effort to switch between "you", "they", and "them" based on complicated grammatical context rules, when you could just use a single pronoun in all cases. You're going to all this effort to inflect pronouns that drag doesn't want. Drag just wants you to take it easy and use a single pronoun. Why make things hard for yourself just so you can make them hard for drag too?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You may not want gender-neutral terms to apply to you, but they do. That's just a simple fact.

And it isn't hard for me to use a gender-neutral pronoun. It's quite easy.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Let drag rephrase. What exactly do you gain by refusing to refer to a trans person the way that trans person wants to be referred? A hypothetical moral high ground in a semantic disagreement? Is the point just that you want to be right in the argument?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I refer to everyone with "they" and "you" regardless of their gender because they are gender-neutral phrases. They apply to trans people and cis people equally, which is how I treat all people. Equally.

You are not more special than everyone else on the planet whether you want to be or not.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Oh, you think having gendered pronouns is a form of privilege? You want to deny drag the privilege of having identity based pronouns? You perceive the issue as a matter of justice, and you think drag needs to be taken down a peg for having pronouns?

I refer to everyone with “they”

Also, drag thinks you should edit the following comments from within the past hour to better align with your moral principles:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I think you expecting no one to use a non-gendered pronoun with you is a privilege you are not going to be afforded.

This is very simple:

Me: You/They
You: You/They
Elliot Page: You/They
Donald Trump: You/They
Lavene Cox: You/They

All 8 billion plus homo sapiens on this planet: You/They

Regardless of their gender.

You are not special. I get that you want to be special, but you aren't.