I’d have no issue with you calling me ma’am or whatever you feel comfortable with, but that’s only because that part of my identity is not something I’ve struggled with for much of my life.
I totally understand and empathize with people for whom perceived gender is not what they identify as, and I’m 100% in support of ensuring that everyone has the right to be referred to by their chosen pronouns.
My point is that I worry that this issue is overshadowing other issues that I think are existentially threatening to our entire way of life.
We’re busying ourselves over respectful word use, while the world crumbles around us.
Do you think anyone will respect anyone’s pronouns when the world’s superpowers are run by fascist governments or our ecosystems and food production have collapsed?
I think that’s a false dichotomy. Your logic applies to every problem in the world, from throwing your trash in the bin to putting on pants in the morning (will anyone really care when we’re all dead?!).
It takes incredibly little effort to respect people’s pronouns, everyone I know cares more that you try than succeed 100% of the time.
That’s why it’s frustrating that people are making this such a big deal that people are asking their identity be respected.
That’s exactly the point. There is a cost. The news media and the public discourse has limited bandwidth. There are only so many things we can talk about and fight for at any given time, and to me it seems like this issue may be drowning out more existential issues.
The irony is that the argument over pronouns is intentionally being amplified by right wing media and activists. They’re trolling us into being outraged about this, and we’re falling right into their trap.
It’s classic bikeshedding being used against us, and most of us seem to be entirely unaware.
Are you seriously finding calling people by correct pronouns difficult?
If there’s a bandwidth issue and right wing people are so concerned about it, then they should take their politicians to task for spending ask their time on those issues like Scott Moe and Desantis are doing.
Are you seriously finding calling people by correct pronouns difficult?
How would you ever know? You are not going to use third-person pronouns in front of the subject and there is no contention around the use of second-person pronouns that I am aware of. If you use the wrong third-person pronoun in front of others on the rare occasion that you need to talk about someone, they aren’t going to notice or care.
If there’s a bandwidth issue and right wing people are so concerned about it
He said they are trolling you, not that they have concern. There is nothing to be concerned about.
I’d have no issue with you calling me ma’am or whatever you feel comfortable with, but that’s only because that part of my identity is not something I’ve struggled with for much of my life.
I totally understand and empathize with people for whom perceived gender is not what they identify as, and I’m 100% in support of ensuring that everyone has the right to be referred to by their chosen pronouns.
My point is that I worry that this issue is overshadowing other issues that I think are existentially threatening to our entire way of life.
We’re busying ourselves over respectful word use, while the world crumbles around us.
Do you think anyone will respect anyone’s pronouns when the world’s superpowers are run by fascist governments or our ecosystems and food production have collapsed?
I think that’s a false dichotomy. Your logic applies to every problem in the world, from throwing your trash in the bin to putting on pants in the morning (will anyone really care when we’re all dead?!).
It takes incredibly little effort to respect people’s pronouns, everyone I know cares more that you try than succeed 100% of the time.
That’s why it’s frustrating that people are making this such a big deal that people are asking their identity be respected.
It costs nothing at all.
That’s exactly the point. There is a cost. The news media and the public discourse has limited bandwidth. There are only so many things we can talk about and fight for at any given time, and to me it seems like this issue may be drowning out more existential issues.
The irony is that the argument over pronouns is intentionally being amplified by right wing media and activists. They’re trolling us into being outraged about this, and we’re falling right into their trap.
It’s classic bikeshedding being used against us, and most of us seem to be entirely unaware.
Two things:
I’m getting tired of “pronouns are too hard”.
How would you ever know? You are not going to use third-person pronouns in front of the subject and there is no contention around the use of second-person pronouns that I am aware of. If you use the wrong third-person pronoun in front of others on the rare occasion that you need to talk about someone, they aren’t going to notice or care.
He said they are trolling you, not that they have concern. There is nothing to be concerned about.