I never got why conservative got crazy if you specify a pronoun, but at the same time expect you to specify whether its, it’s Mr/Ms/Miss (and often don’t take Dr as an answer), looks like the same question
They lost their minds back in the 60s/70s when women started using Ms instead of Mrs/Miss. Even into the 1990s, some conservative men were still butthurt about it. Rush Limbaugh was particularly offended over Ms Rodham-Clinton’s title and hyphen.
They lost the battle over women’s titles and the pronoun thing is their new hill to die on.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The pronoun rage is all secondary to targeting trans people. It’s less a matter of ideology and more about unifying their voters around a scapegoat.
CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 1 year ago
Kind of an evolution of homophobia
meco03211@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Remember kids. Evolution doesn’t dictate that all changes “improve” the organism. They just increase the likelihood of survivability. Continuing the hate for just “gay” people was losing popularity and would have killed the conservative movement had it not evolved into a more esoteric form of hate.
HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social 1 year ago
Yeah, if you've been around long enough the arguments are the same.
Tedesche@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t think most conservatives draw a meaningful distinction between being gay and being trans. These are folks who still view homosexuality as a mental illness and I’m fairly certain they see transsexualism as a closely-related mental illness, similar to the way schizophrenia is closely related to schizoaffective disorder.
watson387@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
This is exactly it. Trans people just happen to be their “other” at the moment.