I’ve been trying to find a good Marxist instance, but Lemmygrad and Hexbear are widely hated. Why is that? Are there any good leftist instances?

  • FaeDrifter
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    1 year ago

    Thank you for your response, you’re very rational and compelling and I find myself agreeing with everything you’ve said. So I’m not going to address most of it, you’re right and that’s enough to be said.

    the majority of people who like use neopronouns mainly do it in queer exclusive spaces because like there’s a risk of having conservatives get really mad at them over it, that’s why its not really visible to cishet people outside of the internet because most cishets arent privy to the spaces where queer people do it, it’s not just a thing people do to seem special (for instance Leslie Feinberg, a very well known trans liberationist activist used neopronouns “I am a human being who would rather not be addressed as Ms. or Mr., ma’am or sir. I prefer to use gender-neutral pronouns like sie (pronounced like “see””) and hir (pronouncedlike “here”) to describe myself. I am a person who faces almost insurmountable difficulty when instructed to check off an “F” or an “M” box on identification papers.”).

    I think a gender neutral singular pronouns like sie/hir would make a lot of sense to add to our general lexicon. I’m tripped up on “Comrade” or “Fae”, if any dictionary word can become a neo-pronoun, we’ve completely lost the plot in terms of real life practicality. When I first saw dictionary works turned into pronouns I fully expected a “one joke” “attack helicopter” next. Conservative might hate pronouns but they LOVE pronoun jokes, and will pretend anything is their pronouns, as a mockery.

    If course, this could be queer people taking back their power from the joke? And really it all points to the endgame that gender is just a social construct anyway and it can be whenever we want. I think the reasonable conclusion is eventually the only pronouns left are ungendered, but if course for now we have to deal with gender binary being the dominant social norm.