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Blahaj.zone is a fucking disaster. I don’t remember any user accounts from that place who comment with any sort of sanity. It’s like the lemmygrad of the LBGTQIA+.

What are we, chopped liver?

  • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    5 days ago

    “They” isn’t actually gender neutral. It’s more gender indeterminant and gender irrelevant.

    Gender indeterminant use is like if I meet a stranger and I don’t know their exact gender by virtue of them being a stranger to me.

    Gender irrelevant is like if I say something like “a person needs food, water, and shelter, or they will die” in which case the hypothetical person’s gender is irrelevant to the general point that I’m making.

    An actual gender neutral pronoun would be a pronoun that is impossible to weaponize by transphobes, and “they” can absolutely be weaponized to misgender other people.