What's Your Opinion On Diverse Pronouns?

[Nekoborg]

What's your opinion on diverse pronouns?

Will you use them if someone tells you what their pronouns are?

[Pocahawtness]

It doesn't bother me what people want. Howeve, it bothers me when they demand it of others.

Society has conventions and some people feel uncomfortable if we step out of those conventions. So, it's not reasonable to expect people to do something they feel uncomfortable with. A person who does that is in effect transferring their own problem to the people around them.

If someone doesn't do what you like, then don't be their friend.

[Garou]

If someone makes a big deal out of it, I will politely decline further conversation.

[TGC> The Games Collector]

No
and
No.

[Dracoco OwO]

Publicado originalmente por Tito Shivan:

Being someone with a heavily gendered primary language makes reading all the american-centric discussions about 'pronoums' kind of funny.

And it's always quite telling when someone tries to import the controversy and isn't versed in Spanish, because they trry a transliteration of the english-centric arguments into spanish, which turns into a very jarring result.

Same stuff with french really, even German it's arguable why you'd want this there either.

[Tito Shivan]

Publicado originalmente por Pirate☠️Pocah:

Society has conventions and some people feel uncomfortable if we step out of those conventions.

Conventions also change over time. People from two centuries ago would cringe at our actual conventions and people from two centuries from now would see our actual ones as we now see the past ones.

And people are always averse to change, moreso the older they are. Sure time ago people felt about not adressing everyone as Mr/Ms in a similar way as certain people feel about using pronoums to adress people.

Language is dynamic and shaped by people at the end of the day.

[Psycho]

No. I'd just call them by their name instead. Much easier

[MeowDread]

I think it's good

[D. Flame]

He/She/They is fine. Even off the wall ones like, "it" or "one" are acceptable. But neo-pronouns like ze or zem is a step too far.

I like the concept of pronouns like Xe, because it is like how in X-Mas, the X stands for Christ. And in Xe, the X can stand for "H" as in He or "Sh" as in She. The problem is, there is no agreed upon way to even pronounce it, and trying to force the average person to use a term that isn't even standardized is just going to lead to more friction and anger instead of acceptance.

So if you want to use a non-binary singular pronoun, just stick to they/them.

[Supersquid]

Publicado originalmente por saranacX:

New age gimmicks. Have zero respect for the whole thing. And no I don't play along.

Pogs and beanie babies were healthier trends.

Same.

[ハイイロギツネ]

Publicado originalmente por cat staccs:

I respect trans people and try my best to refer to them as they asked, but in the french language it's really hard.

On diverse and neo pronouns I distance myself from people who use them, I don't want anything to do with them, it doesn't seem genuine to me, it is just a way of adding depth to a very shallow personality.

Gender pronouns do not work well in certain languages, such as Spanish, which use masculine and feminine nouns.

Why is it difficult in French? I'm not too familiar with the rules of the language but it's quite interesting now that you mention it.

[Skade]

no

[Morkonan]

Publicado originalmente por Nekoborg:

What's your opinion on diverse pronouns?

Will you use them if someone tells you what their pronouns are?

If they have to tell me what their pronouns are in casual interactions, something is wrong.

I won't ever personally insult anyone just out of the blue. If I can't figure it out, I'll try to avoid using any. If I can't, I'll take a guess.

If it's a stranger, I don't want to know their divergent predilections. I won't knowingly insult them, but I do not want them insisting that I become part of their social affirmation group. If it's a friend who's somehow decided they need a change, I'll try to do my best to accommodate them, but things will be a bit uncomfortable. I won't be making any new friends who have complex pronoun requirements, so won't have this problem with them.

[Groogo]

The pronoun situation is cartoonish.

[Val]

I identify as the main character

[𝔈𝔩𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔬]

You are either a "he" or a "she" and you don't get to have much dictation over that.
You can be gay, you can be homeless, but I can't be an Apache and no one is ever going to refer to Rebecca as "theems"

Sorry, I don't like wasting time on this topic. People who can't agree on other things will still agree on one thing, pronouns are just too much.