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Misgendering someone or refusing to recognize their gender identity is sexism and transmisogyny.
by krapp 7mo ago
Misgendering someone or refusing to recognize their gender identity is sexism and transmisogyny.
- loeg 7mo ago> Misgendering someone or refusing to recognize their gender identity is sexism and transmisogyny. It must be some "ist" of you to assume it isn't transmisandry instead. (And not sure that anything related to gender identity specifically divorced from sex is "sexism.")
- krapp 7mo agoYou can be as snarky and dismissive about it as you want, it is what it is.
- sgt 7mo agoI'm simply not going to call someone "they", and I consider myself a pretty liberal person. This means your threshold is fairly low. You're allowed to have those opinions, of course. We can talk about other things.
- hananova 7mo agoYou may consider yourself that, but given that you won’t even offer someone the pleasure of addressing them the way they want to be, you aren’t.
- Planktonne 7mo ago> I'm simply not going to call someone "they", and I consider myself a pretty liberal person. An outright refusal to use a common word is not a liberal trait.
- kennywinker 7mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47299506 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47299506 This is you, happily using a singular they. Like every english speaker, you are happy to use it when you don’t know the gender of the person you’re speaking about, or it is irrelevant. If i was to talk about you to someone else i could say “they don’t like using preferred pronouns” because i don’t know your gender. That’s all that’s being asked of you. Don’t assume a gender. If that is uncomfortable, perhaps you should explore that discomfort, instead of running away from it.
- asdil 7mo agoMore often than not, it's actually a rejection of sexism to refuse such recognition, given that the concept of "gender identity" is based upon sexist stereotyping.