• CarniMoss@lemmings.world
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      10 months ago

      Do you say that when someone gets upset at being called the wrong name repeatedly? A name is something we made up but getting it wrong repeatedly shows a blatant disregard for the person it represents.

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        10 months ago

        Sean - wrong

        Shawn - correct

        Shaun - also correct

        I get it all the time, do I care if someone writes Sea(n)? Nope, people are fucking stupid. Just like mixing up feeling and sexuality with genders

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          10 months ago

          I just wanted a serious answer.

          Male and female is a gender

          Lesbian, gay is sexuality

          Mixing these 2 is fucking stupid

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        10 months ago

        Respect is earned not given. I’ll give you the second one, I agree there.

        So where does this making stuff up fit in with either? It seems pretty nonsensical to me

        I’m not trying to upset ya just to understand, cuz it seems batshit crazy to me

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    10 months ago

    Our obsession with gender is deeply weird to me (though not as weird as other languages that gender all nouns).

    Why have we decided that the most important thing when referring to people (with pronouns) is their gender, over a million other things like their hair colour, height, political prescriptions, age…

    It serves no meaningful purpose, and we as a society should get past it.