Gender-special is RAGING mad that Wikipedia doesn’t constantly alternate between “he” and “they” pronouns on the Elliot Page article, and instead uses “only ‘he’ for consistency”

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[–]Femaleisnthateful 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

LOL it's so telling to watch FinnKimbrel (of course it's a Finn) descend into incoherence and anger by the end. I do remember Ellen's 'coming out' letter referred to herself as 'non-binary' but her transition has been pretty binary. I think the media is referring to her as 'he' because transactivists would perceive 'they' as diminishing.

The whole 'multi-pronoun' thing is such a mess. At my work, the two women who demand 'she/they' pronouns refer to each other as 'they' and get called 'she' by everyone else. Randomly interchanging pronouns is completely confusing. The grammatical function of pronouns is to ease comprehension, not to complicate it.

[–]LyingSpirit472 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I think the media is referring to her as 'he' because transactivists would perceive 'they' as diminishing.

Well, that's the whole point. If you do this, you have a reason to be angry no matter what other people do, meaning you have a reason to claim anyone is oppressing you and thus, you have power over everyone!

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

Hence the constantly shifting goalposts and unwillingness to define the rules of engagement...

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

by 2024 the hivemind of Twitter teenyboppers will have decreed that "they/them," "trans," and drag are all Bad (1. used to deny women aren't "she/her," 2. somehow implies some women are different from the others, and 3. mockery of those women-who-are-in-way-different-from-other-women)

and they'll still hate masc gay guys

or they'll just go back to being TERFs like in 2012 (presumably building off Amber Heard's "she should've hit him harder" fandom)

[–]LyingSpirit472 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That's too unlikely. It seems like by that time they'll go right out and say pronouns as a whole are bad (because to use a pronoun means genericizing people and denying they are special, meaning you must exclusively use their name or nickname they give themselves.

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

didn't the MLA style guideline or whatever say that the word "the" was bad, using "the French" as an example