• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Fiction and truth are not a dichotomy. They’re not even mutually exclusive.

    The thesaurus disagrees with you.

    You do not decide on how everyone else uses language.

    There’s plenty of things that are both or neither.

    Three examples, with evidence, of each please. Note that your personal opinion is note evidence.

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      13 hours ago

      But but but! Drag talks in third person, so what Drag says must be important! …right?

      …right?

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        13 hours ago

        Eh, that’s weird but I’m cool with it. If they want that to be their pronoun, whatevs. But that doesn’t mean they understand the concepts of truth and fiction, since they apparently don’t.

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          13 hours ago

          Nah they think it’s cool, and not realizing, or admitting, that it’s annoying and stupid.

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            13 hours ago

            Everyone uses they/them pronouns. They/them are gender-neutral. That applies to you as much as everyone else on the planet.

            I really get that you want to control how others use language. That’s not your call.

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                Cool. I’m still calling you ‘you’ and ‘they’ because that’s how English works.

                They are gender-neutral words.

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                  That’s the correct answer. This “drag” business has to do with this individuals kink of sex with dragons, as alluded to in their bio. I’m not kink shaming, but it is bad form to force others to participate in your kink without consent, even in a nonsexual context. Honestly, I’m not entirely sure they aren’t a troll.

                • Dragon "Rider"(drag)@lemmy.nz
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                  Drag doesn’t want to be referred to gender neutrally. Drag wants drag’s gender affirmed. It isn’t hard. You’re going to all this effort to switch between “you”, “they”, and “them” based on complicated grammatical context rules, when you could just use a single pronoun in all cases. You’re going to all this effort to inflect pronouns that drag doesn’t want. Drag just wants you to take it easy and use a single pronoun. Why make things hard for yourself just so you can make them hard for drag too?

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                    12 minutes ago

                    You may not want gender-neutral terms to apply to you, but they do. That’s just a simple fact.

                    And it isn’t hard for me to use a gender-neutral pronoun. It’s quite easy.

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                13 hours ago

                I am not a moderator in this community, the rules here are not my call.

                Also, there is no situation in which they/them is a pejorative. Unlike ‘pedant,’ which is literally a pejorative.

                Are you going to follow me from thread to thread harassing me? Shall I alert the Lemmy administrators?

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                  12 hours ago

                  I’m just replying to you, I saw a relevant post in your replies, so I responded

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                    12 hours ago

                    So then yes, I should alert the Lemmy administrators if you keep following me from thread to thread.