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minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-211 days agoOnly if you mean when someone is demanding another person to go by a specific pronoun and not someone demanding others respect their own pronouns. IE if you’re demanding a trans woman to be called a man, that is like demanding a woman to wear a burka. Someone demanding you call them by their own pronouns is like a woman demanding freedom from a burka.
minus-squarebig_fat_fluffy@leminal.spaceOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down10·edit-211 days agoThe form of language is dictated by the preferences of all those involved in the conversation, the conventions of their shared culture, and other context. For a person to insist that everybody involved bend to his sole preference is unrealistic.
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 days agoSo would you be fine if I referred to you as a bitch, or would you insist I refer to you by a specific name or pronoun?
minus-squareBorgDrone@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 days ago The form of language is dictated by the preferences of all those involved in the conversation No, it really isn’t.
Only if you mean when someone is demanding another person to go by a specific pronoun and not someone demanding others respect their own pronouns.
IE if you’re demanding a trans woman to be called a man, that is like demanding a woman to wear a burka.
Someone demanding you call them by their own pronouns is like a woman demanding freedom from a burka.
The form of language is dictated by the preferences of all those involved in the conversation, the conventions of their shared culture, and other context. For a person to insist that everybody involved bend to his sole preference is unrealistic.
So would you be fine if I referred to you as a bitch, or would you insist I refer to you by a specific name or pronoun?
No, it really isn’t.
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