• MindTraveller@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    Well I know plenty of enbies and/or objectkin who use it/its pronouns and I don’t agree with you using their pronouns to insult a conservative. As a gay otherkin enby who’s attracted to gay otherkin enbies, the pronoun set it/its applied to a sapient being turns on the part of my brain that looks for attractive people. So I feel as though you’re trying to convince me that Tate is a viable sexual partner. Or at least, of a gender identity I could potentially be attracted to. While using he/him others him as a privileged male, and makes it easier to view him as an asshole leveraging social inequality for personal gain.

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        7 months ago

        That’s ridiculous. They only started dropping the H from “hit” to create the word “it” during the middle ages. But nonbinary people have been around for 300,000 years. That means enbies are over 300 times as old as it/its pronouns. Why are you telling lies?

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            The reason it/its pronouns sound nonbinary is that they are. You’re taking away Tate’s he/him pronouns because you want to take away his masculinity. You’re saying he has no more gender than a photocopying machine. Trump is a sexist, and you’re calling him sexless as an act of revenge. Unfortunately it doesn’t work. It’s about as effective as calling Donald Trump the N word. All you’re doing is saying that A: you think less of genderless things than male things, and B: you think someone’s right to their gender can be taken away if they’re evil enough. Neither of those is an empowering message for Tate’s victims to hear. Your lie about how long enbies have been around was also not empowering.