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There's a difference, though, between > This person is female and I'm not comfortable referring to her as 'it' because females are 'she' and > This person is
by RHSeeger 4y ago
There's a difference, though, between
> This person is female and I'm not comfortable referring to her as 'it' because females are 'she'
and
> This person is a human being, and 'it' is used to refer to objects. It's demeaning to call a human being 'it' and makes me uncomfortable
The later is, at least imo, much more defensible.
- komali2 4y agoIn the absolutely fantastic novel Too Like Lightning there was a character that is famous for the life-like dolls made of it. Eventually it comes to term with the fact that its preferred identifier is "it" because it feels more comfortable being referred to as a doll, or inhuman, i.e. literally objectified, than it does with being considered traditionally human. I also feel uncomfortable using "it" as a pronoun, luckily this person seems comfortable with "she/her" as well so we can just use those instead.
- mrguyorama 4y agoIf someone tells me they are happy and comfortable being referred to as "it", and that situation makes me uncomfortable, isn't that a "ME" problem?