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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com⁩ to ⁨memes@sopuli.xyz⁩

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  • LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I could be an it. A good little toy.

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    • Honse@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Average blahaj user

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      • LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        :3

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    • 30p87@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “A toy? A Lego set??”, she asked excitedly, and wagged her tail.

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    • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      img

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    • Squirrelanna@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Based

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  • burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is why everything is a little shit to me. I’m just getting all of them in one combined s/h/it word.

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    • fartographer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You eat pieces of shit for breakfast?

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      • Haaveilija@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I would guess that yes, that’s (h) it

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      • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        ……….No.

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      • burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Gotta reuse fiber to hit the daily recommended.

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  • lbfgs@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Turkish has no gender specific pronouns so this is every Turkish speaker I guess

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    • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not even for people? I dont know why that sounds so strange but it does.

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      • lbfgs@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        There is only one third person singular pronoun (“O”) used for people (regardless of gender) and objects alike.

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      • guy@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Neither does finnish

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  • GraniteM@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Image

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  • bystander@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In Chinese, verbally the world for he, she, and it are all the same pronunciation. It is only differentiated in writing.

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    • stray@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The written form was neutral until Western influence inspired the creation of a female version, replacing the first radical “person” with “woman”.

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      • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I think some Chinese forums use “TA” (as in the 2 English letters) to be gender neutral

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    • Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Don’t forget the word 祂 for divine beings as the 4th

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      • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Going to randomly call people 祂 to fuck with them.

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    • jali67@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ta?

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      • toeblast96@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Image

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  • kersploosh@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “It puts the lotion on it’s skin…”

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    • glorkon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      *its

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      • Voixe2@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Tits*

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  • Nima@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I never get mad at “it” because it gives me flashbacks to Shale from Dragon Age Origins and I absolutely love her. she’s amazing .

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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.

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    • brown567@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Can’t be dehumanizing if you use the for all humans XD

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      • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I don’t wanna be human, anyway. Dehumanize me. Dogicize me instead.

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    • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I can understand using more respectful language for pets than people.

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    • JesusChristLover420@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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    • Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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)

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    • Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Don’t read Lois McMaster Bujolds “Vorkosigan Saga” On of the bio engineered races preferred “it” when being gendered.

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  • CPMSP@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh holy fuck I’m rolling!

    How have I not seen this image of Radcliffe before? He looks absolutely deranged!

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    • bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The back story is that he was elbowed in the face on the way to the car, and probably had stage makeup on.

      https://chatterbusy.removed/2013/07/daniel-radcliffe-appears-exhausted-with.html?m=1

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      • Spectrism@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Fixed link

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      • stray@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Why did that word get censored?

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      • CPMSP@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Thanks for the context!

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    • ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hey kid… wanna buy some drugs?

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  • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve run into this a while ago but I’m not sure what to make of it. aria.dog/barks/on-being-a-thing/

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Holy shit… You can have domains that end in .dog?

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      • pieland@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        and .pizza, .gay

        there are lots of fun ones

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      • borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You can have domains that end in even more stuff if you switch to an alternative dns root like opennic.org.

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    • stray@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “It” is personally my favorite neutral pronoun, but it has so much cultural baggage attached to it that it doesn’t feel like a viable option. Why does a squirrel or a ficus or a robot get to be called “it” by default, but not a person? It isn’t fair.

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      • Venat0r@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        it’s generally used to describe non-sentient things…

        Also, using only it gets confusing when trying to determine what “it” refers to in a given sentence…

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      • JesusChristLover420@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s your choice. Do what you want. Damn the haters to sheol.

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    • JesusChristLover420@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Based based based based based

      …Waow

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    • yogurtwrong@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What a tasteful website design

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  • Jumi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I have friends who use it. It feels kind of weird and wrong for me as if I’m objectiving them but if that’s what they want it’s what they get.

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    • gerryflap@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah I’d be quite uncomfortable with calling anyone “it”. I’ll gladly use they/them, I’d be down to learn some neopronouns, but calling someone “it” is something I’d rather avoid. Even if someone likes “it” pronouns, I’d still feel incredibly weird doing so in public. Calling people an “it” is often done here to mock androgynous people. It feels dehumanizing. If I were to do so in public, it would mean they people around me (who don’t know the other person’s preference) would probably assume I’m doing so to mock them.

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      • AlolanYoda@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        On the other hand, when I was learning English this was the weirdest thing to me. What do you mean you have a gender neutral pronoun and it’s not acceptable to use it to refer to someone we don’t know the gender of?

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      • Jumi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I admit I use “they” when they’re not around and luckily it rarely happens that I need to use their pronouns when I’m out with them.

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    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I have friends who use “it”. It feels kind of weird and wrong for me as if I’m objectifying it but if that’s what it wants it’s what it gets.

      ftfy

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      • Jumi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Great job, what would I ever do without you?

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    • Event_Horizon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      To me “it” dehumanises someone doen to an object.

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  • Draegur@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I use ‘it’ to describe ME :3

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    • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I have “it” in my Discord description, along with cpt.

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  • napkin2020@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Korean, having to know the person’s age, social status, relationship and all just to call someone.

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  • python@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Russian could have been such a woke language if Russia wasn’t such a right-wing shithole. It’s kind of elegant how you gender verbs when talking about yourself, because your conversation partner can just pick up on it and gender you accordingly.

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  • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No joke: in my native German dialect, women are grammatically neutral.

    My then gf was completely shocked when visiting my birth region for the first time.
    It still married me, though! :-)

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  • thatradomguy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ah yes, Dilbert scrabble scene.

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  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m all for hating the Giants as a cowboys fan. But I’m curious what role it plays in this meme.

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  • csolisr@hub.azkware.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Sensitive Content
    Non-native English speaker here. I was appalled to learn that English conjugated for animacy, and could swear "it" was the gender-neutral pronoun because that's what was used in Pokemon for example. I'm also not a fan of toggling conjugations mid-sentence, so I prefer to construct sentences with the plural "they", the expression "that person", or even the singular "one(self)", whenever I can
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    • beejboytyson@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s not. In academic writing the gender neutral is they/them.

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      • csolisr@hub.azkware.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
        Which is why I was appalled to learn it late in life that "it" was reserved exclusively to non-humans, for some reason that didn't exist in my native Spanish. The rest of my explanation would be better written on a longer blog-post of mine.
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  • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You know what’s weird? I’ve caught myself saying “it” about people a few times passively lately and then correcting myself and wondering where the fuck that came from

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