Harry Guerrilla
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There's no reason to make this distinction
I think this is more indicative of a bias towards people who use these pronouns than a statement of fact but pretty par for the course in internet arguments
Sure there is.
Words that are integrated naturally aren't generally as stupid
Yes, I'm biased against an ultra minority of people wanting to change words, for an even smaller ultra minority, when it serves no real utility function.
Please forgive me for not taking you as an authority on what is stupid and what isn't stupid
There's tons of things you could complain about not serving any function why single this out?
Never mind. I know why.
Well it serves no real, utility function, other than making an ultra minority happy.
Changing a subset of common pronouns to serve said ultra minority, should indeed qualify as stupid.
Because this is the topic of the thread or did you venture in here by accident
something here sure qualifies as stupid. its the knee-jerk reaction to something that doesnt even really affect you in a material way on the part of you and X
no one made you come in here and bray about "ultra-minorities"
There is a pronoun that can replace all of this nonsense if someone wants to be differentiated so bad. 'It'
Manufactured? A long time ago. In Julius Caesar's time there were two provinces of Rome called Transalpine Gaul and Cisalpine Gaul, meaning the far and the near side of the Alps.
And, when speaking of people, there's trans and there's everybody else. If there has to be a designation for those who dwell on such things, non trans is fine.
So, you're not really trying to present anything. You're just complaining.
I get that this cis thing really sticks in your craw, but if you just don't give a damn it stops.
I don't spit enough when I talk to speak French. Kinda sucks tho as I spent a month in the hospital with a condition with a French name that I could not, and still cannot pronounce right.
Some people are dicks it's the world we live in. **** them and forget about it.Not bad advice, Clax. It's not the word in itself so much as the unexpected resistance and downright hostility I encountered when I said not to apply to me personally - at least, not when speaking to me.
Hypocrisy exists in all humans.I found that to be rather amazing for folks who speak a lot about respecting preferences and all.
It indicates that these people do not like the way you identify yourself. I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. They are so twisted up with not identifying how others think they are identified as, they have little identity outside of it.The clear emotional attachment to the term, and the strong reaction to me rejecting it, tells me there's something more that's behind it than just this benign, no big deal descriptor.
Ah forgive me. I did slip and use a "social science" term instead of simply saying "sex."
I accept the correction despite all the ad hominem sewage it was couched in. :coffeepap:
It's a large part. Thanks to DP I really feel like I have a somewhat better handle on this whole thing than I would without DP, simply because I know of only one person in RL whose trans and it's the kid of the lady who cuts my hair so it's not like it's someone I have a lot of contact with. Reading what I linked, though, made me feel like just being decent is not enough and I think this potentially harms the "cause" (not sure that's the right word). I should say, though, that often times it's the advocates who are worse than the folks they're advocating for. The trans people I've talked to here actually seem pretty reasonable.
Not bad advice, Clax. It's not the word in itself so much as the unexpected resistance and downright hostility I encountered when I said not to apply to me personally - at least, not when speaking to me. I found that to be rather amazing for folks who speak a lot about respecting preferences and all. The clear emotional attachment to the term, and the strong reaction to me rejecting it, tells me there's something more that's behind it than just this benign, no big deal descriptor.
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