TERFs Don’t Have a Right to Be Transphobic on Twitter, Court Rules | them.

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[–]our_team_is_winning 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Really hate that silly term "deadnaming" -- Bruce Jenner is not dead. He's very much alive and LARPing away. And he remains male. "He" is the correct English pronoun for a male.

Instead of their attempts to define female as a "feeling," maybe they can define "man"? Is "man" something a man can opt out of?

I miss Magdalen Berns so much. She would have made so many more great videos blasting this insanity.

[–]MarkTwainiac 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

"Deadnaming" isn't just silly, it's more appropriation that is disrespectful to the dead and makes light of the fact that we're all going to die.

Moreover, in typical TRA fashion, it gets things completely backwards: most people want our names to be remembered after we're dead, not to be treated like dirty, shameful secrets that must be erased from the historical record and can never be mentioned in conversation or in print.

One of the worst aspects of losing loved ones is the fact that once the funeral or memorial service is over, many friends, colleagues and acquaintances will go to great lengths to avoid acknowledging or "bringing up" their deaths and to avoid ever mentioning their names.

[–]our_team_is_winning 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

most people want our names to be remembered after we're dead, not to be treated like dirty, shameful secrets that must be erased from the historical record and can never be mentioned in conversation or in print.

totally agree; they should use "original, birth, former" etc. to refer to their pre-name-change name