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bizzle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Using “it” to refer to human beings feels super disrespectful to me. Dehumanizing much? 1992 called they want their attitudes about trans people back. Obviously if someone told me they prefer “it” pronouns I’d use them but I would feel gross about it.
Don’t learn Finnish I guess.
No gendered pronouns and we honestly use “it” (se) as a pronoun. No, I would never use it in English unless I meant to purposefully dehumanise someone, but in Finnish it’s just the normal colloquial version of a personal pronoun, whereas “hän” is a 3rd person pronoun that’s more formal, (but also non-gendered) . Pets usually get to be referred to as “hän” with the more formal personal pronoun, weirdly enough.
I can understand using more respectful language for pets than people.
And you’ll probably understand why instinctively I would say cats get that more than dogs.
Why would you feel gross respecting a trans person’s preferred pronouns? If a trans person wants to be thought of as an object, would you genuinely think of it as an object, or would you think of it as a person but still call it by its preferred pronouns? Because the second option would cause cognitive dissonance and might be the reason you’d feel gross.
You wouldn’t like how people in Finland speak then 😅
(We have hän for s/he but almost everyone just uses se {it} in spoken language)
Don’t read Lois McMaster Bujolds “Vorkosigan Saga” On of the bio engineered races preferred “it” when being gendered.
brown567@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Can’t be dehumanizing if you use the for all humans XD
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
I don’t wanna be human, anyway. Dehumanize me. Dogicize me instead.
stray@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
*pretends to toss a treat*
adhd_traco@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
You adorable cutie little boy you!
strokes neck fur
Yes, youuuu! Youuuuuuu’re adorable! You cutie, you!