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Dasus@lemmy.world 10 months agoOh it’s not about this being hard.
It’s about me saying I literally did not notice as I do not see gender in words like you do.
I admit that when using English I notice it more when it’s a feminine pronoun than when it’s a masculine one.
The point I’m making is that I did not misgender anyone. If anything, I disgendered English.
So no. I’m not going to admit to misgendering someone, when I most certainly don’t do that on purpose. What I might do is not read the username of a person I’m replying to. As I prefer responding to the message, not the person.
It’s not my fault English isn’t gender neutral when I am. I naturally speak and think in a way that does not account for gender. Would you like for me to start replacing that with archaic gender stereotypes?
Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
No you didn’t, masculine is still a gender. I’m totally willing to believe that this was an innocent mistake to begin with but by tripling down on it like this you’re just being a dick.
You understand that English does have gender neutral pronouns, right? “His” just isn’t one of them. At any rate, given that Rose has her pronouns in her display name there’s no need to use neutral language anyway.
Madison420@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Calm down guy, it funny even seem like the person you’re talking about took offense with it. Why claim their outage for your own?
Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
yawn
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This whole-ass thread is terrible and I downvoted everyone
Dasus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Name a gender-neutral singular pronoun from English that isn’t “it”.
clickyello@lemmy.world 10 months ago
they
Dasus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“They” is plural, not singular.
It can be used to refer to single people, and using a plural instead of a singular is a very common way for many languages to show deference to the person you’re speaking to. Like in Finland. English already did that and did it so much it got rid of the second person singular, as “you” is a second person plural. This ofc meant there was nowhere for English to go vis-a-vis showing deference, so English really stresses titles. Narcissism of small differences, really.
Based on the votes I’ll have to disagree and say you don’t really know what others think.
So, to reiterate, you would rather that I start using archaic stereotypes to think about people and language? I have to condition myself into thinking of everyone as either a boy or a girl, and always make a mental note to gender someone as soon as I make contact with them? The first thing I do should be to gender them? That’s your takeaway?
Maybe try reading my comments again, with some thought. You’re not the hero here.
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Also gendered language btw
Madison420@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What is projection alex?