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submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I’ve never actually heard or seen someone honor such a request online or IRL, and it would sound ridiculously stilted if they did. Where is Rumpelstiltskin's coat? Rumpelstiltskin must have left it at the bar. Will someone please text Rumpelstiltskin and let Rumpelstiltskin know?

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[-] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

a lot of people are undecided on pronouns or dont want to be identified as one gender or the other for security reasons. i figure some agender people might be interested in the idea too.

some trans people also dont like the idea of being pressured to state pronouns.

the main goal of having mandatory pronouns listed to each name on hexbear is so that trans people arent singled out as the only people with listed pronouns, making it harder for transphobes to target individual people. in the larger fediverse it also makes it obvious that we're all trans accepting commies which definitely makes people angry, and it is very funny.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

I misread this and was like "what the heck are state pronouns??"

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

state pronouns

bakunin-immortan

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

When the revolution comes, the state will enforce pronoun use and it will be beautiful. ussr-cry

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

The more pronouns you have, the cooler you are. Sorry, I don't make the rulesshrug-outta-hecks

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

collecting pronouns like pokemon fr fr

[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago

It's the default so I think it's way overrepresented here

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

used to be you had to pick bu i think this is the case now yeah

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Should go back to that. Leave none as an option, but don't leave a default.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

agreed, it was just a dev oversight

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

It pissed off people with brainworms and made wreckers so much more obvious before federation happened. GOOD feature

[-] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago

I am no one oooaaaaaaauhhh

[-] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago

coupled with it being the default as mentioned, i think some people just adopt it as another layer of opsec

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

Best not to worry so much about it, I think.

Out of all the posts I've made on this site, I don't think I've ever used a pronoun to reference another user. I haven't noticed anyone use a pronoun to refer to me. It will probably just never come up, especially in real life.

But yeah, if the rare situation arises, just use the name.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

the only recurring reason to use a pronoun for someone on a place like this is usually to talk about the original poster, who is already lovingly abbreviated "OP", shorter than most pronouns

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

I think it was included to assuage concerns of forcing pronouns on users. It's easy enough to use someone's name if you don't know different. Pronouns also don't tend to come up in first person conversation, it's only when referring to someone else that it causes grammatical issues

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

No, it’s the default when you sign up and now you have to go back into your profile settings to change it.

IMO pronoun selection should have been included in the sign up page (and if I remember correctly, this was the case at some point before the federation?).

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

ive gone back and forth between he/him, and none/use name and any/any because i dont care how people refer to me. I guess that might be problematic but im not real smart and im nothing but fucking problems. I left it at he/him because it is important to others, and im trying to be mindful of others.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Yeah I don’t especially care which pronouns people use to refer to me, either. I get misgendered over the phone and usually don’t bother correcting them.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Why do people refer to your in third person over the phone? With me it's usually "you"

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

You got me there, sorry

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Not caring about what pronouns people use for you is not problematic. You don't need to present specific pronouns to make others happy. Just need to respect that other people want to be described by them, which you do.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

I confuse the opps by picking a new gender to display every time I make an account

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Stop using your real name then Mr. Gosling.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

I think it's pretty straightfoward.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

@[email protected] was very clear. You are not to refer to her by any pronouns otherwise y'all will get upset. I have no problem honoring its wishes.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

her

hmmmmmm

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

it does sound stilted IRL and people are probably going to default to "they" in english anyway which is part of why i don't care enough irl even though genderless language is probably a better fit for me than "they" or some neopronoun.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

They isn't genderless? Can you maybe explain that to me, I'd always thought it was.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

gender-neutral and genderless are slightly different.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

It is. You use it if you don't know a person's sex or preferred pronouns.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

I wonder this but with love/loves and maybe a few others.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

i had met someone with love/loves pronouns irl and it took every fiber of my being to avoid inflecting a scottish accent

was a pretty fun pronoun to use though, i liked it

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

A lot of those happened to be specific requests by particular users at the time pronouns were being added. There was a user who went by doe/deer and doe got deer pronouns added at deer request.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Dont you dare refer to me in the third person.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I think captcha means "Don't you dare refer to captcha in the third person"

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Does it ever seem stilted to you when people refer to those posters? Because I haven't noticed that so it seems to me like a non-issue

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