As always, thank god for James Stephanie Sterling.

How To Refund #Starfield Because The #Pronouns Upset You

https://youtube.com/watch?v=qwiRnxSnknM&si=IFA8TRr5VQQqbjZe

Why There's A Campaign To Re-Introduce A Historic Letter Back Into The #Alphabet | HuffPost UK Life

#Ae #Pronouns #English #Language

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/bring-back-history-letter-let-history-say-thae-exist_uk_64d38832e4b05c10fd6d838c

A #RightWing Commentator Furious That Some #Women Don't Want #Children, And More Of This Week's 'One Main Character'

https://digg.com/one-main-character/link/one-main-character-twitter-matt-walsh-starfield-pronouns-iq-score-not-that-pretty-Xbf3YqkeZE

Another day, another person getting irrationally upset about #pronouns.
#ChildFree #gender

#pronouns #tenses #grammar

Maybe dumb question but when we’re talking about a person who uses they/them in the past tense do we use was or were? Like, “they *were* a librarian for awhile” or is it “they *was* a librarian”? Were is plural and unless a person is a system they’re not plural… but “was” doesn’t seem right either. Am I overthinking things? English is weird lol

#pronouns #tiktok

He/him
He/they
They/he

Bronouns

#Bronouns #Pronouns

When it comes to #pronouns, conservative religious people are like “We don't want them here!!!”. Meanwhile, not only do they have pronouns themselves, they also refer to God, a non-existent being people believe in for thousands of years, as “He”, “Him” and “His”.

Satire is not dead. It has just transcended from its humorous form into a non-humorous form.

I'll just leave this here. (Very NSFW, language)

#pronouns #lgbtq #trans #nonbinary

Not sure if it’s hit Mastodon the same way it’s hit Bird App, but there’s some more pronoun hysteria, this time about Starfield. Here’s a video on it:

Starfield, Pronouns, and the Politics of Escapism
https://youtu.be/IepD7SgAPQc

#starfield #pronouns #videoessay

Pink News: Angry gamer bros are furious that players can pick pronouns in Starfield https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/03/starfield-bethesda-pronouns-gaming/ #LGBT #LGBTQ #Trans #Lesbian #2SLGBTQ #pronouns #Culture #Gaming #gamers #News #Xbox

Unpopular opinion: Forget the whole pronoun game; just use “they” across the board and be done with it.

The singular they has been around since Shakespeare and it fits into conversation quite comfortably and naturally. I’ve been doing it for ages, and nobody even blinks at it.

This organic practice avoids the whole issue of people deciding what pronouns apply to them and then trying to get everyone else to comply.

Yes, it’s rude to misgender someone, but “they” has no gender, so it’s not an issue. It can’t be wrong, whether intentionally or not.

Frankly, I find the whole “here’s my pronouns, so fucking use them or else” thing to be pointlessly confrontational. It’s even more so when someone demands that we use a nonstandard pronoun that is entirely artificial.

Likewise, let’s just make bathrooms unisex and be done with it. If it means adding floor-to-ceiling booths for more privacy, all the better. Unisex makes for better load-balancing, as well.

The best way to fight the culture war is to pick the battles that matter, not purely symbolic ones that benefit the fascists more than anyone else.

#politics #pronouns #gender #lgbtq #culturewar

Seven Sins of Writing
https://www.hamilton.edu/academics/centers/writing/seven-sins-of-writing
#ycombinator #passive_voice #punctuation #wordiness #apostrophe #modifiers #apostrophes #pronouns

Picked up a couple of books from an Oni Press sale. This one was really informative, even as someone who feels pretty aware - “A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns.” Would definitely recommend. #pronouns #nonbinary #bookstodon

CalliEcho's Megaplex 2023 Con Badge

Nothing big today, just a quick drawing to use as a badge when I go to Megaplex this year (unless I don't go, in which case this is just a neat thing)!
Also featuring the return of green-haired Calli! It's actually still bleach-blonde right now, but soooooooooon.

#transformation #tftuesday #tfeveryday #tf #pokemon #pawmot #midtf #midtransformation #convention #badge #con #furrycon #furryconvention #megaplex #electric #lightning #qrcode #socials #pronouns

I have my #Pronouns on my profile because I’m an ally, not because I’m trans or confused. Oh, and trans people aren’t confused either. #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights

@br00t4c
"...between my wife and I." "...but governing the state of Florida will just be up to I." Him ain't no intellectual, that's for sure. If #DeSadist was really so concerned about how people use #pronouns, you'd think he'd learn to use them his own self.

I want to get a meme going. A la #birdsarentreal. I want to fake a "type" that has quick rageful reactions if someone uses some particular #grammar form or phraseology; chosen for absurdity, simplicity and recognizably for "average" native speakers.

Mispluralizing? Anything.

Like how Miss Attributed was famous for saying "It is up with that kind of pedanticism, with which I shall not put!"

Some grammar thing or other to get _pissed off_ about, cardboard signs and everything.

#words #pronouns

What if, when we share our pronouns, we reflect deeply on what it means to include a possessive pronoun in the list?

For example, I could use (he / him / his), but what kind of relationship between me, other people, ideas, and objects am I claiming when I think with “his”?

A fun experiment with this is in Ursula Le Guin’s book, the Dispossessed, where she writes the anarcho-syndicalist language used by people on Anarres.

#pronouns #culture #language #anarchism #commons

Researching today for my actual job, the one that pays my bills.* Returning to the rich source that is the Voiceprint radio show episode on Women's Language and Literature from 1981.

https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59258?u=t&keywords[]=voiceprint

I can't get over how this old #student #radio show took on the issue of #feminist editing, #nonbinary #pronouns, #intersectionality & #WomensWriting - not in exactly these terms, bc they didn't have this language yet.

*Sort of. It's contract, very part-time.

#UofAlberta @academicchatter

Trying to get the hang of the #fediverse atm. Are #pronouns kinda mandatory in one’s description ? Living in France right now where this is less of a thing and would love some info or explanation.