• mycorrhiza they/them@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    You called them unhinged for having neo pronouns. People have been attacking them for years, they expect a fight, and if you come in and fucking mock their pronouns and talk down to them they’re not gonna care enough to find out about your real world stances or activism, they’re just going to look at the comment right in front of them, and assume you’re some bigoted CNN lib who pays performative lip service to genderqueer rights but sees them as goofy caricatures and has no interest in understanding them. They get enough people like that already. If they took the time to investigate and understand and categorize everyone who threw shit at them it’d be a fucking full time job.

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      You called them unhinged for having neo pronouns

      No I didn’t, now that’s a gross misrepresentation.

      I said it was unhinged that I was being told that I was literally Hitler because I think neopronouns are silly.

      If you think everyone who finds neopronouns impractical for real life is a Nazi, that sounds pretty unhinged, I still feel that way.

      some bigoted CNN lib who pays performative lip service to genderqueer rights

      Pfff, yeah when in that same post Hexbears couldn’t tell the difference between a man and a person with a penis.

      If they took the time to investigate and understand and categorize everyone who threw shit at them it’d be a fucking full time job.

      Well I guess that’s the way you justify sexual harassment.

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      And for the record, I didn’t come out swinging against neopronouns. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with neo-pronouns themselves.

      What happened is that I saw a community who

      • sexually harasses people
      • fetishizes violence and executions
      • fears and mistrusts the media (to an extreme)
      • draws harsh in-group out-group lines
      • blurs the lines of their opinions with irony
      • “the West”

      And I saw all that and double sets of pronouns including neopronouns, and I was like omg, it’s Nazis pretending to be leftists. They act like Nazis, who ran with the pronoun thing and took it to the highest level. (I know now they aren’t Nazi’s, but the behavior makes a really bad first impression)

      The problem was never actually the neopronouns. It was the Nazi-like behavior that came attached.