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[–] [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.