A screenshot from Back To The Future. Doc has Marty and his girlfriend in the car, and is saying “GUI? Where we’re going, we don’t need GUI!”
A screenshot from Back To The Future. Doc has Marty and his girlfriend in the car, and is saying “GUI? Where we’re going, we don’t need GUI!”
Drag agrees with you. Drag just had a funny conversation recently about a particular Linux tool that had a desktop version and a CLI version, and drag was asked which drag wanted. Drag would personally prefer to use it on the CLI, though drag is glad the GUI exists. And then this meme popped into drag’s head.
Such a bizarrely stupid social experiment.
No, GUI is actually great and opened up computers to billions more people.
I think anyone reading this can gather that I’m referring to this “drag” nonsense. Not for one second has anyone believed you go around IRL requiring people to call you “drag”. It’s blatantly obvious that you’re just trolling because you think you can get away with it.
Drag doesn’t require anyone to use drag’s preferred pronouns, online or in meatspace. But drag’s fiance @[email protected] does gender drag correctly and so do drag’s friends.
Yeah this is what no one believes
Welcome to drag, been seeing drag on lemmy for a while now so I just accept drag to use the internet as drag likes, making memes and talking in the third person
Except that they’ve co-opted a practice of trans people who are genuinely trying to be true to their inner selves. Instead of doing that, they make a mockery out of it because most people are too afraid to call them out on the “drag” thing being a bullshit troll campaign.
Oh I never really thought about it. I thought they just like dragons a lot and were playing a weird internet persona
If it is a bullshit troll campaign then it’s obviously designed to get people fed up about pronouns and sow discord. The intention is for more people to decide they don’t care about “this stupid neo pronoun bullshit” and for each person that gets fed up about this, trans inclusivity falls in the community.
If it is not a bullshit troll campaign then it isn’t any weirder than other folks I’ve seen before on the internet. Furries and/or otherkin and/or whatever. I might not understand it, but I’m not about to come out here and tell them their self expression is incorrect. Frankly it’s none of my fuckin’ business. Doesn’t hurt me any one way or the other and it might make someone else happy.
So with that as my perspective, I’m just going in whole hog on absolutely respecting the shit out of this, because if they are a troll then they’ll almost certainly get tired of this eventually, and if they aren’t, then I don’t give half a damn what you want to call yourself. Especially if you don’t make a scene when people don’t comply. I’ve never seen Drag make a scene about other people’s choice of what to call them, I’ve only ever seen other people raise questions about how Drag refers to themself.
So, yeah. Do I think it’s a little weird? Sure, it is. Is it harmful? Nah, not really. The only harmful part I’m seeing is how six people want to interrogate them about it every time Drag makes a post about anything and it always overtakes the comment section. It’s attention seeking behavior, sure, but it isn’t harmful to anyone, that I can see.
Are you referring to yourself in the third person?
No. Drag uses person-independent pronouns.
You actually do frequently post in the third person. For a recent example, you said
That is structured as a third person sentence. A first person version would be, “Drag think drag get it, thanks!” Basically, you don’t always conjugate for first person. Since your name/nickname and pronoun only differ by capitalization, though, neither form quite looks right in English.
Why are you referring to drag in the third person???
Just kidding! Drag understands that “you” is a second person pronoun. But you see, it uses the same conjugation as they/them pronouns. Since you think conjugation determines person, you’re forced to think that either they/them is second person or you is third person.
Drag doesn’t have to worry about that, because drag knows there’s no relationship between conjugation and person. And now you do too.