• schroedingershat@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Normal non-fascist-reactionary people have the ability to distinguish between ridiculous bad faith pearl clutching (what you are doing now) and earnest expressions of identity.

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        1 year ago

        My response is always to use whatever pronouns the person I’m talking to says are right. If it’s all alt-right troll, oh well. Maybe they’ll have half a moment of self reflection and realize how ridiculous it would be for nonbinary folk to lie about their pronouns all the time, day in and day out. Maybe they’ll realize that it would be exhausting having to lie just for the sake of… attention? Which wouldn’t make sense in the first place, because unfortunately the majority of attention that you get from being nonbinary in public is explicitly hatred.

        I know that hoping for conservatives to actually reflect on how they make people feel is a pipe dream, but if a man can’t dream, what can he do?

      • toomanyjoints69@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        When my buddy went through a furry phase and wanted me to call them Zary i did so. It made them cringe so hard they changed their mind. I imagine if i opposed it they would have held on to identifying as a dragon for longer.

        So like, ive delt with the exagerated version and simple acceptance stopped the problem.

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          1 year ago

          The only one pulling shit out of their ass is you and your ridiculous pearl clutching slippery slope bullshit. If you don’t do stupid shit, you won’t get in trouble (and before you go all pedantic douche, I’m meaning in the context of gender discrimination and harassment).

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            1 year ago

            Going from two genders for centuries to 100 in 10 years? Yeah, definitly not pulled out of the ass.

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              1 year ago

              It was 70 in the last comment. They’ve already added 30 more? My gods! … or are you still just pulling shit out of your ass?

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                1 year ago

                Didn’t know you were that disadvantaged that you need a big red arrow saying hyperbole pointing to the number.

                It was very ableist of me and I am sorry for it.

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                  1 year ago

                  Your obvious failings aside, the core of your comments indicate you have absolutely no idea how gender and sexual identity work. You’ve been fed lies and misinformation that you now don’t question. When someone presents you with the truth, you discard it and build on top of the lies you’ve been fed with more lies and misinformation.

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                    1 year ago

                    Ah yes, the truth that “anyone can be whatever they want for whatever reason”.