Demanding a pronoun is like demanding a burka.

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Your self-centeredness is absurd. We have better things to do than oppress you. Trust me in this.

We speak in whatever way seems best. And that is a personal matter. Respect that or not.

sunzu2

YOU ARE THE OPPRESSOR, NOT THE OPPRESSED.

Y'all got some loose definition of oppression

Gaza residents are oppressed

Working class is oppressed

Some dick in the wild not using the language you prefer is not oppression

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Knock yourself out.

But I find that convenience is the primary dictator of speech. Anything else gets awkward and exhausting.

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Well, either way, it's not really worth thinking about for more than 10 seconds, because quite frankly the parallel is pretty fucking dumb.

Rhynoplaz

I'm self centered because I consider other people's feelings before addressing them?

I'm sorry that I didn't consider how annoying it must be for you to respect other humans in your vicinity.

I'm an effort to be more like you, I will disregard your username and call you Fucko. In the future, I'll expect you to respond to the name Fucko, as not to oppress my freedom of speech. Sound good, Fucko?

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"respect who I am or I'll be upset"

"This is who you need to be or I'll be upset"

Nope, not seeing it.

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Only if you mean when someone is demanding another person to go by a specific pronoun and not someone demanding others respect their own pronouns.

IE if you're demanding a trans woman to be called a man, that is like demanding a woman to wear a burka.

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You call people what they want to be called. This is universal respect since forever.

If you accept nicknames, but struggle with pronouns, your problem is bigotry.

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fuck off to Reddit

Rhynoplaz

It's not a competition. There's always someone who has it worse, and that does not invalidate anyone else's struggles.

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It's a combination of what you want me to call you, what I want to call you, what the conventions of our culture suggest that I call you and what's convenient to the context, actually.

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Both are making a demand, that you conduct yourself in a certain way.

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Some struggles are so objectively small that invalidating them is only sane.

Rhynoplaz

I've decided to call him Fucko, and tagged him as such so I don't miss an opportunity in the future. Feel free to join in and see how "free" it makes him feel.

Rhynoplaz

Sorry to hear that, Fucko.

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Calling people by their name can be challenging for the simple minded. Isn't that right, Fucko?

Rhynoplaz

Like your struggle to remember someone's name, Fucko?

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The form of language is dictated by the preferences of all those involved in the conversation, the conventions of their shared culture, and other context. For a person to insist that everybody involved bend to his sole preference in this is unrealistic.

Rhynoplaz

So, you're saying that expecting everyone else to respond positively to whatever you want to call them is unrealistic?

For the first time, I agree with Fucko.

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5/7 ragebait