Comment on The Divine Dick
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 1 month agoNewness is the quality of having been recently created or having started existing recently. The deific pronouns surely came before the standard canon of human/mortal pronouns, just as their subject deities predate humanity, perhaps both having always existed. It doesn’t have anything to do with societal acceptance.
candybrie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Uh, pronouns are just words. They don’t have some innate quality that means they had to exist when the entities those pronouns describe began. He/Him is likely about as old as he/him.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The original post described them as neopronouns, which is a category of pronouns that have arisen recently due to changes in how we understand and descrive gender. Pronouns like xe/xer, for example. The pronouns for a timeless being that predates humanity would hardly be “new” by any standard. I was having fun with the idea they would be old or eternal pronouns by comparison to Humanity’s pronouns. You took the joke too seriously.