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[–] Signtist@lemm.ee 33 points 3 months ago

People playing tag πŸ’ͺ

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Also Finns. We have perfectly gender neutral pronouns but we prefer to use "it" instead

[–] Zaros@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Unless we're talking about pets, funny enough.

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Some people legitimately choose the pronoun it though and that shouldn't be shamed.

[–] whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 months ago

Intent is important I guess

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Feels like casual dehumanization to call a person β€˜it’.

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 5 points 3 months ago

It can definitely feel that way, but that's no reason not to use the pronouns that someone identifies with.

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

People talking about someone who uses it/its pronouns πŸ’ͺ

[–] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 2 points 3 months ago

Look everyone! Its it!

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I thought terfs insist on using the false pronoun? Using more than 2 pronouns for humans breaks the gender binary

[–] GiveMemes@jlai.lu 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No they say it because they want to objectify and demean you. I knew a guy like this and it had nothing to do with sticking to the binary and everything to do with making people feel bad for being different.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's scary. I never heard that before

[–] GiveMemes@jlai.lu 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah it's really sad that people are like that. He was the choir teacher at my hs and would call a nb person in the group 'it' if he was corrected. Just kinda gross but he was old as fuck and abt to retire anyway so we never really escalated it.