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Is anyone of you using new pronouns in everyday conversations? This is a serious question, because for me it feels like learning a new language.
- it's not that difficult and improves collaboration.uan
- Like xe/xem/xyr?
No. You're hanging with the wrong crowd.palimpsest - Pansexual means having sex with aliens? Are you serious?SimonFFM
- ^ Simon, you having a rough couple of days, mate?Continuity
- enough to realise that you can spot 'them' from 20ft and more often using correct pronouns to converse about how insane 'they' are (for reasons other thankingsteven
- pronouns) with other folks rather than actually in use in conversation with folks that use pronouns.kingsteven
- I don’t. It’s weird to me and feels unnecessary.monospaced
- It only exists online no? Or in confused middle school hallways?_niko
- Xeye do, aye.Nairn
- There are just pronouns I wasn't aware of. They were not in my vocabulary and I need to learn. Same when someone says to you "I'm a CIS woman" and I didn'tSimonFFM
- know what to respond as it was live on tv. That's all I am saying. I feel it's difficult to catch up with all the new terms.SimonFFM
- Just coz I sound like having a hard time, all is good! I was skating this morning and didn't try any crazy tricks (thinking of QBN advice).SimonFFM
- *drgs is typing...drgs
- CIS woman isn't a pronoun. Pansexuals having sex with aliens ?
What are you on about, Simon?palimpsest - I was referring to 'Green Lantern' and was told about the aliens that look like insects. I am not a comic guy, so I can't get into more details...SimonFFM
- Nope, just carrying on as is. If I get corrected then I'll use the preference out of politeness.microkorg
- And even if a mix of folk I'll still use "...you guys...".
Seemingly more PC is 'you folks'microkorg - Never met anyone where that was required. I know a trans man. I call him he/him. That's it so far.jagara
- I prefer to use "you people", it's more inclusive.palimpsest
- Ze has a bike.
Zir bike is red.
Ze bought the bike zirself.
Make a mistake and you will be fucked******** - He, she, faggot, dyke are the only pronouns you'll ever need.cherub
- I'm yet to meet anyone who specifies pronouns, but I'm always aware when something is only for attention and when to just ignore it.Ianbolton
- I know two people who are they/them and I use it for them. Not daily usage. Sometime I fuck it up (he/she) but they’re reasonable people so they let it slide.********
- "You people" covers all bases though right, palimpsest. I wish you people would just....Ianbolton
- I’ve worked with many people who use they/them. In my experience, theyre bothered only when someone INTENTIONALLY uses the wrong one, to make a point or be rude********
- Try your best and don’t worry too much about it. Think of it as a good small brain exercise that will help prevent dementia later in your life :)********
- Alternatively, tell them you already have dementia, and you can't keep up with everyones pronounsdrgs
- I live in America so I’ve co-opted “y’all” from the south. It’s a perfect replacement for “you guys” but probably would sound odd in Europe********
- Exactly what nb said. I'm mostly confused as to why this is being treated like some new issue?garbage
- It's a pronoun to you, an identity to others. I do not understand why it's so hard to respect somebody else.garbage
- They/them is easy. But there are pronouns I had to google e.g. xier or dey (German).SimonFFM
- Yeah, like I said, try your best and don’t take it too hard. If someone gets mad, just say “I didn’t mean to offend, I’m trying my best and still learning.”********
- Boo fucking hoo. I'll make fun of ve/xe/ze ppl just like I make fun of everyone else********
- We’re white males over 40... people don’t expect us to be perfect at it and are usually grateful when we try. :)********
- Did you just assume my gender and age, you cuck?********
- people don’t expect US to be perfect? What the fuck?********
- I don't and don't intend to. In the case of someone having actually gone through sex change I will gladly use the corresponding new pronouns.spl33nidoru
- If someone goes by something like xie/xer, it must be super common that xer are treated with confusion and even contempt. Don’t worry too much.********
- “I support anyone's right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?” - Dave Chappelle********
- @Babydick_ I did not assume anything about you. I was writing to SimonFFM. Trolling is juvenile and impolite, btw. You come across as juvenile.********
- Listen here you little shit, assuming that someone is a white male over 40 because one looks like a white male over 40 is fucking weak.********
- Just use 'name'+san, like they do in Japan. Use for male, female, young, old, dog etc... Means 'honorable'.shapesalad
- Just use CUNT . It's all inclusive and safe.Krassy
- @nb Don't fuss with the babydick, he's only little.garbage
- If you don't respond to his bullshit, he eventually tires himself out and pacifies himself. He's never saying anything intelligent, so just let him foam.garbage
- We think we know you
We think we know you
We think we know you******** - You don’t have to learn anything. For the last time, all you have to do is use “they” and you’re done. It’s not a fucking new language and it’s not difficultscarabin
- God forbid you have to learn a new thingscarabin
- It's not a new language but it is a very quick adjustment that we're all expected to get on board.TOMMYxGUNN
- When is this god forsaken site going to sort out these side notes, it's impossible to follow.TOMMYxGUNN
- Quick?
It’s been going on for like a decade nowscarabin - This is something you can learn on your lunch breakscarabin
- I dont think you Americans realize how exclusively American this phenomenon is. Northern Europe will maybe adopt it, I doubt about Southern Europe, East def notdrgs
- Any one who specifies their pronouns is useful way filter out woke idiots.Chimp
- Yes. Quick. 10 years? Depends on your circle I guess, but most people haven't come across it in the wild, hence this post.TOMMYxGUNN
- Meanwhile my friend who went to Honduras with Doctors Without Borders came back with some horrific stories that puts this kind of BS in it's place.Chimp
- ^ I'm listening********
- spill the beans Chimpfaxion
- https://www.vice.com…drgs
- What will the "tic toc generation" be remembered for? they are so "progressive" they lost the ability to use proper English grammar.cherub
- and they don't give a fuck about boomers.uan
- Using "they/them" to refer to a singular person. Regardless of how you identify, you are still singular not plural. "They/them" is incorrect.cherub
- don't talk about others. problem solved.uan
- If you deliberately attempt to change your own biological sex into something else, and it ends up being unclear what you are in no case whatsoever do you becomecherub
- plural. If anything, you become an "IT" if we don't know what the fuck you are anymore.cherub
- based cherub********
- Example: Stefan had his penis removed and got breast implants. Starting tomorrow, it no longer knows what gender it is. NOT: "THEY no longer knows what gendercherub
- THEY is. That is not proper English grammar. You don't use the plural if you're referring to a singular person.cherub
- On his birthday yikesYearzOne
- Oops wrong postYearzOne
- Who cares about proper language, it's all about the feelings********
- I use IT/THONautoflavour
- no and i will never.milfhunter
- I don't. Not the recently invested ones, anyway. If I made a transgender person, they I will absolutely use the pronouns appropriate to the gender they'reContinuity
- ... presenting, though. That's just common sense and proper. But xie? xer? And the rest of that ilk? What do they even mean?
So, yeah, forget it.Continuity - *met a transgender person, not made.
I'm not in the making people business.Continuity - Also, then. Fucking heat is addling my grammar.Continuity
- As far as I understood, "xie" is used, because "they" is the same as "she" in German language.SimonFFM
- I've seen it in English (nominally), too.Continuity
- See that guy cherub ranting about grammar? THEY don’t see the irony.monospaced
- Lol mono********
- Yall wanna see mono get triggered? --> https://i.imgur.com/…cherub
- They don't think it be like it is, but it do.palimpsest