Published on 12, July, 2020
A discussion in this forum made me ask myself this question, what's gender?. I googled it but what I found there didn't make much sense to me. I always thought that the gender of the other person doesn't tell me much about who they are. It just informs me about the appropriate pronouns that this person wants me to use with them. Frankly I don't care about figuring out my gender. I was born in a woman's body and I never felt like it's the wrong one. I think I'd feel the same if I was born in a man's body. I have never spent time thinking about this part of myself because I never thought that it's important enough to me. I'll be the same person anyway, no? I don't think it would change much about who I am... Can anyone share how they understand gender?
I haven't read any of the replies, so I apologize in advance if I offend anyone
Pronouns are DANGEROUS
And I am not saying they are bad because it helps transgender people feel included. But what people don't understand, is that TRUE, REAL transgender people represent 0. 1% of the population. Will we reveal our private feelings about ourselves only for less than 5% of the population?
Woke people claim they are forwarding diversity, but let me get this straight, your "friend" has asserted that you HAVE to use pronouns? Where in the world does that include how YOUR freedom to reveal YOUR private life? I don't know how you feel about yourself, but there is ABSOLUTELY NO OBLIGATION for you to use pronouns. NONE. And if people say you are being discriminatory then it just proves the point that they are guilt-tripping you to accept THEIR view through HARCEMENT and INSULTS.
So much for "diversity" right
You say “TRUE, REAL transgender people represent 0. 1% of the population”
can you quote your source for this statistic please?
and who defines “TRUE, REAL”, you certainly don’t, in fact no one has the right to define this.
We all use pronouns. I'm using them right now.
Are you trying to say that when someone has to reveal their pronoun or use one then they are sort of "forced" to come out or share a personal info that they might not want to share? . I'm trying to understand your view here.
Well, now I'm thinking about why we have pronouns in the first place haha. I guess they are useful to refer to a third person?. Otherwise people would have to use my name all the time, no? Also, how would it look like in literature and poems ext.. it's interesting to think about how things will change if we change this simple thing. I don't care about what pronoun people use with me. Only the pronoun (it) would offend me a little. Otherwise, I don't really care. Thank you for sharing. Even tho to be frank, I didn't completely get it but I know that it's hard for me to understand stuff sometimes.
You have used 13 pronouns in this post. Be careful! They're dangerous!
People who don't identify themselves as non-binary, transgender (and so on) would not be best pleased if others mistakenly or deliberately referred to them wrongly or impolitely. The 'norm' is so ingrained in society that they hardly think of correct usage and address as rights - they take it for granted; so why shouldn't other groups enjoy the same rights?
There's no credibility in railing against perceived 'demands' either - not when the demands of convention imprison us all, and often make sheer existence an unbearable trial...particularly for the people you're criticising.