• TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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    25 days ago

    But but but! Drag talks in third person, so what Drag says must be important! …right?

    …right?

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      25 days ago

      Eh, that’s weird but I’m cool with it. If they want that to be their pronoun, whatevs. But that doesn’t mean they understand the concepts of truth and fiction, since they apparently don’t.

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        25 days ago

        Nah they think it’s cool, and not realizing, or admitting, that it’s annoying and stupid.

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          25 days ago

          Everyone uses they/them pronouns. They/them are gender-neutral. That applies to you as much as everyone else on the planet.

          I really get that you want to control how others use language. That’s not your call.

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              25 days ago

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

              They are gender-neutral words.

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                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.

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                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?

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                  24 days ago

                  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.

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                    24 days ago

                    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?