• Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nz
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    2 months ago

    Drag doesn’t understand why you’re so insistent on making the english language smaller and preventing people from expressing themselves with new words. Maybe your views are just flip-flopping to whatever lets you deny the self-expression of queer people. It sure feels that way when you refuse to use drag’s neopronouns.

    • I think it’s safe to assume they don’t realize that drag is referring to dragself’s pronouns, and that the word “you” is the problem (I’m also not sure that I’ve got it right- lmk).

      My input on the debate, while I’m here, is that people should be free to refer to themselves with whatever label they want, even if I think it’s problematic, especially when it comes to something so personal like sexuality

      (Edited to correct grammar)

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        2 months ago

        Thank you. You almost have it right. The only thing is that drag’s pronouns are not capitalised. Drag is not a god.

        Drag doesn’t think we should police people who use the word lesbian. Drag thinks we should just make sure that everyone’s aware of both sides of the issue. Drag suspects that doing so would lead to the word being abandoned willingly by gay women, the same way trans people abandoned words like transvestite. These days, if an older trans woman calls herself a transvestite, everyone knows she’s old fashioned but doesn’t think much beyond that. Drag thinks that’s how the word lesbian is going to end up.

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            2 months ago

            Drag has met capitalised pronoun users. They didn’t think it was a sign of respect, and They got pretty mad if someone insisted that it was. They wanted to be treated the same as everyone else while still being Themselves. Unfortunately, many people think that’s a contradiction.