Does anyone else lose respect for people when they put their (very obvious) pronouns in their social media bios?

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[–]oyasuminasai50 36 insightful - 1 fun36 insightful - 0 fun37 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

These people "assume" people's pronouns all day, every day. It's impossible not to do this. Go to a restaurant:

person 1: where is the server?

person 2 (wokester): she's over there, let me wave her down.

BOOM! you just assumed her pronouns!

Like, are these people going out to waiters and cashiers and asking their pronouns before they proceed with the interaction? of course not.

the whole pronoun in the bio thing is another example of unsubstantiated woke bullshit, slacktivist nonsense of people doing the bare minimum to feel good about themselves, like they're making any sort of difference in the world.

[–]purrvana 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I watched one of Steven Crowder's "Change my Mind" videos and it was "there are 2 genders, change my mind".

Well, a non-binary person (obviously female) sat next to him, shared their pronouns, etc. Crowder slipped up once and she tore him up for it. But then a super virtuous TRA from the crowd jumped in and said something like "stop talking over her!" and of course the NB didn't even notice the protector misgendering her, even by accident, even though you could hear half the crowd mumbling and chuckling because of it. That's the whole gender BS in a nutshell.

edit: here's the virtuous TRA misgendering the person she's defending at least four times, lmao

[–]lefterfield 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Lol, yeah. They can't play by their own rules because their rules are nonsense. I sometimes use a male screenname online, and once argued with someone about genderism. The response: "Your experiences, growing up as a cis male, are going to be very different from a cis woman's" Me: "Did you just assume my gender?" The only response was a sort of confused protest that my name "sounded male." And made it all the more hilarious that they did, in fact, incorrectly assume my SEX.

Edit: And also that I don't actually disagree with THAT statement, it's that everything else they said was nonsense. Of course men and women have different experiences - but they were also wanting to argue that "trans women" had different experiences than "cis men".

[–]Carthimundia 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That clip was hilarious. Multiple misgenderings and the girl just...sits there and says nothing because that person is on her side. I also burst out laughing when he says "would you like this person to take your place" and the girl snootily replies "I'd like to finish my thought that YOU haven't let me finish yet" when the reason that she never got to finish her thought was because of the rude person in the audience. I feel bad for that guy, these people are absolutely exhausting. He maintains the highest level of politeness and decorum and they just trample all over him - they even accuse him of being aggressive with the microphone. He doesn't seem to realise that these people do not respond to reasonableness.