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[(Anonymous)]

i've seen "thon/thons/thonself" (sounds like flipflops), a few "it" (cool, i'm not referring to people as things tho), "xie/xer" (is this for people that think they're too special for they/them?), and some tumblr sparklegenders so absurd i genuinely can't tell if people are being serious. hopefully they won't blow a gasket when i just continue using they/them/not referencing their pronouns at all.

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[(Anonymous)]

I love neopronouns tbh, it's irritating that when people finally clocked nonbinary as an identity that they just made it into another rigid gender box with one set of pronouns to use

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[(Anonymous)]

I can't take people seriously if they're making up pronouns for themselves like crabself or something.

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[(Anonymous)]

and they're entering the workforce now. my company's had more than one applicant using tumblr uwu/uwus/uwuself type pronouns apparently in all seriousness. i'm not sure what they were hoping to accomplish.

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[(Anonymous)]

This shit makes it harder for people to use standard pronouns and it's unrealistic to expect everyone to remember made up pronouns.

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[(Anonymous)]

Exactly. That they unironically believe recruiters will not throw out applications with nonsense like this means they are in for a rude awakening.

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[(Anonymous)]

yeah. it's been a struggle getting people in my professional life to even use they/them for me, and i'm misgendered on a daily basis by people i've worked with for a decade. and after the latest uwuself applicant my boss acted like my preferred gender neutral pronouns are as nonsensical as shit like that.

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[(Anonymous)]

i will happily use he, she, and they. anything else requires me to memorize some weird nonstandard pronoun for someone in a way English doesn't typically work and that's my line in the sand.

I default to they actually since it's just easiest.

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[(Anonymous)]

listen i'm a crusty older millennial that also rolls my eyes when neopronouns and shit like that comes up, but we need to not act like people using that as an excuse to be transphobic are somehow less to blame than the people just innocently if cringe-ly using neopronouns are. if your boss is being shitty and transphobic about they/them because they're conflating it with neopronouns, that's your boss's damage and no fault of some goofy tumblr uwuself kid

respectability politics is a fool's errand. if the last decade has taught us anything, it's that there's no level of wholesome socially acceptable gay that will actually save us when the christo-fascists are taking the wheel and putting us against the wall, and that holds for any minority group.

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[(Anonymous)]

i think they're fine to use on Tumblr. but in real life we don't get a buffer of thinking time to remember "oh yeah so-and-so is not one of the three standard pronouns i am accustomed to using effortlessly in my native language, uwu is uwuself and i must respond accordingly"

i just don't think that's a reasonable request at like... work. where people need to use their brainpower for more productive things than making you feel like the sparkleprincess of the ball.

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[(Anonymous)]

it's still not fine on tumblr. making up totally incoherent ways to refer to yourself and then demanding everyone comply annoying in any context. those things aren't about identification they're about being annoying and attention-seeking and people who do it should go sit in the basement with the rabies pride people and not speak to others.

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[(Anonymous)]

excuse me


rabies pride?????

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[(Anonymous)]

i will let you google that one on your own, i haven't the strength to explain

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[(Anonymous)]

"Rabies Pride is a movement/term for neurodivergent (mostly autistic) transgender individuals who are usually treated as if they are an animal, as if they have a contagious disease for being "too loud", "too hyper", "too much", etc."

i first encountered it in the wild on a blog for someone self-diagnosed with DID and each personality is a different fictional character they kin. they also use a different set of tumblr style neopronouns for each personality.

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[(Anonymous)]

i hate the tumblr did community and how they expect you to NOT think it's a made up mental illness to pretend to have a bunch of fictional characters in your head but instead smth people should respect.

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[(Anonymous)]

i'm ngl i think it's fine on Tumblr because i'm not on Tumblr

and i'm not on Tumblr because of everything you just said

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[(Anonymous)]

it puts the pronouns in its bio or else it gets the hose again

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[(Anonymous)]

neo-pronouns are fucking stupid and only used by people who want an easy way to be unique

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[(Anonymous)]

neo-pronouns are like bright colors on poison frogs. tells me not to interact with anyone like that.

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[(Anonymous)]

See, it's funny how you think thon/thons is all new and shiny and tumblr, but it was coined back in the 1800s. It's a contraction of "that one".

Meanwhile, xe/xyr/xem goes back to at least 1973 (coined by Don Rickter), which is fifty years ago now.

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[(Anonymous)]

in other words, they'll never catch on

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[(Anonymous)]

lol this just proves it

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[(Anonymous)]

people were annoying in the past, too, anon

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[(Anonymous)]

because being old automatically makes something good and worthwhile

oh wait...

also no one claimed thon is from tumblr (yes, we know how to do web searches too, imagine that) so you're 0/2 here.

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[(Anonymous)]

imma keep it real with you, chief

im not calling you "it"