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Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago[…] Pronouns are a thing that harms nobody […]
This feels like a hasty generalization. For example, if one is experiencing gender dysphoria, we could assume that misgendering them with their undesired pronouns would cause them psychological distress ^[1]^ — ie harm.
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1. Type: Article. Title: “Gender dysphoria”. Publisher: “Wikipedia”. Published: 2025-08-05T16:25Z. Accessed: 2025-08-06T04:23Z. URI: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_dysphoria. - Type: Text. Location: ¶1. > Gender dysphoria (GD) is the distress a person experiences due to inconsistency between their gender identity—their personal sense of their own gender—and their sex assigned at birth.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
That is a willful misinterpretation of what I wrote.
Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
How so?
medgremlin@midwest.social 6 days ago
The comment was referring to preferred pronouns as just “pronouns” because the cultural zeitgeist has conflated the two. There are tons of right wing assholes that say that they “refuse to use pronouns at all” without processing the difference between “preferred pronouns” and the grammatical construct of pronouns as a whole.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
The other reply has it right, but I wanted to reply to confirm.
“Pronouns” in this context almost always means “preferred pronouns” especially wrt people who have preferred pronouns that differ from those assigned at birth.
It’s a bit hard to believe that someone would be aware of the study you mentioned, but not the common usage of the terms.