• @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    35 days ago

    It’s not about picking specific pronouns, though. People want to be addressed in a manner consistent with their gender identity. What is your gender identity?

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        25 days ago

        Could you provide an article or some description expanding on that? I don’t know how that is a gender, instead of an occupation/ preference

        • Dragon Rider (drag)
          link
          fedilink
          English
          -3
          edit-2
          5 days ago

          Genders can be occupations too. Womanhood spent several thousand years being basically equal to domestic servant. And have you ever heard the line “join the army and become a man”? Among the Bugis people of indonesia, “priest” is a nonbinary gender.

            • Dragon Rider (drag)
              link
              fedilink
              English
              -4
              edit-2
              5 days ago

              Well, drag is an anarcho-communist, is engaged to marry drag’s pet dragon, likes all forms of science fiction and fantasy, is a wizard, prefers power metal over most other genres of music, and thinks Python lends itself too easily to non-OOP designs. Anything more specific you’d like to know?

              • @[email protected]
                link
                fedilink
                English
                35 days ago

                No, it seems like you identify in a non-binary way and they/them would be an appropriate way to address you.

                This isn’t saying you should or shouldn’t be addressed in a specific way, I’m saying it’s not clear what your gender identity is. You’ve stated an occupation, not a gender. I don’t want to get into how I disagree that gender can be an occupation, but you haven’t said anything about how an occupation can be a gender.

                • Dragon Rider (drag)
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  -45 days ago

                  They/them, which is a gender neutral pronoun, would be an appropriate way to refer to drag, if there weren’t any pronouns that refer specifically to dragon riders. But since there are, they/them is about as appropriate for drag as it is for an average man or woman. Drag thinks you’ve misunderstood the they/them pronoun. It doesn’t refer specifically to nonbinary people, it refers to any group or person lacking specified gender. Drag is not lacking specified gender, drag’s gender is very specified.

                  • @[email protected]
                    link
                    fedilink
                    English
                    45 days ago

                    You can refer to men or women as they, as you are not specifying a gender with the world “they”

                    So you are making up grammar rules, this has nothing to do with gender. Bye.