Entirely agreed with this, but you probably knew that. Of special note is [0] there: a zillion times, thank you! This is the sort of assumption that I want to work very hard to beat out of people, and for so many different reasons.
For a while, I was actively going by a set of non-gendered pronouns. I wasn't insisting people use them, but I would use them for myself (and sometimes others), and a few good friends picked them up and had no trouble with the matter. What I found startling is how offended certain others were! They seemed to assume that simply because a couple people used them for me, that I was somehow forcing them to do some crazy, language-breaking thing, when I hadn't even asked. They were reacting to hearing new words. Oh no, new words! Our poor techie brains can't cope with manufactired terminology!And we don't know "how to treat you"!
So, basically, people are gonna be stuck on this no matter how it's approached. So I tell them that the "F" on my I.D. means that I flunked sex, and now it's anyone's guess.
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Date: 2011-07-28 09:12 pm (UTC)For a while, I was actively going by a set of non-gendered pronouns. I wasn't insisting people use them, but I would use them for myself (and sometimes others), and a few good friends picked them up and had no trouble with the matter. What I found startling is how offended certain others were! They seemed to assume that simply because a couple people used them for me, that I was somehow forcing them to do some crazy, language-breaking thing, when I hadn't even asked. They were reacting to hearing new words. Oh no, new words! Our poor techie brains can't cope with manufactired terminology!And we don't know "how to treat you"!
So, basically, people are gonna be stuck on this no matter how it's approached. So I tell them that the "F" on my I.D. means that I flunked sex, and now it's anyone's guess.