Some new pronouns dropped.

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[–]Horror-Swordfish 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

If someone wants to go by these pronouns, I just won't interact with them. They're signalling that they're the type of person that will scream and cry over the smallest perceived slight, and when they're in a good mood, will spend all of their time yammering on about stupid gender shit that literally no one is interested in.

So in a way, I'm happy that these people are feeling emboldened to show themselves plain as day so I can know to avoid giving them the attention they crave. It's just a shame that they somehow latched onto, "being an uninteresting asshole is an immutable characteristic that I was born with and I need to legislate people giving me attention and lock up people that say anything negative about me," and most of society just went, "sounds good!"

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If someone wants to go by these pronouns, I just won't interact with them.

This is generally the best advice and when you must interact just get used to saying their name instead of pronounifying everything. It gets straight to the point with fewer words. Ie "Medusa said she wants to order lunch from her favorite restaurant." Is "Medusa suggested we order lunch from this restaurant." I think that sort of language just sounds better anyway and it prevents you from walking on eggshells or second guessing your sentence every 5 seconds.

This doesn't necessarily work though if you need to interact with the person a great deal. In my experience some of these people are so desperate to hear you say "she" that when you just use neutral language with their name they get angry. I have had a MtF flip out on me when i had never "misgendered" them a single time. Meanwhile other people had done it by accident constantly all day long like "he...sh..he... SHE sorry" i never did it once but somehow i became the target of "you are transphobic". The logic being that because i never made a mistake that i should have used pronouns instead of their name and because i always used the name or had a better structured sentence it made me worse than the other people who kept messing up and apologizing. It's because they love the boot licking involved with people making the mistakes then needing to grovel for forgiveness.