Which feels most natural to you?
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"no one" is the only one of these that is actually correct. So gonna have to go with that one.
@freemo I'm sure any trans person would tell you prescriptivism is directly anti-trans and is actively being used against us. Kindly fuck off and start listening to us and taking action, changing your beliefs instead of saying empty performative words
Exactly. I even recognized that im sure there are people out there using "proper english" as a bat with which to beat transpeople with (re: gender pronouns). But saying that means anyone who uses or believes English has rules is automatically anti-trans is just laughable.
@freemo @LouisIngenthron @luna I don't think it's necessarily anti-trans to think there's a proper way to use grammar, although if someone's pedantic within this particular context, then it might be irksome.
Someone quibbled with me once over "they", because that wasn't proper English, although that was around a decade ago.
No one does it to me now, although maybe I just interact with people who're somewhat nice.
I've always found a utility to it. When you're on the Internet, who knows what someone's gender is. It never made sense to me to assume everyone's a "man".
Since some feel more comfortable being addressed with it, that's another good attribute for it.
That makes a lot of sense to me too. Perhaps, someone isn't comfortable with either the she / he pronoun, or a particular gender role.
Language is an evolving thing, and maybe, there isn't a fixed way to do things, but I can see why you'd want a consistent standard for many things in a professional setting.
As I said in my response to this person, I have absolutely no issue with the claim that "proper english" is sometimes used against trans people when discussing pronouns...
The issue is that is so peripheral to the discussion, which wasnt about pronouns at all, as to be absurdist to equate what I said to the issue at all.
