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Comment on Everybody is fine with celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg making up fake names for themselves, but when someone chooses a name for themselves to suit their gender identity it's suddenly a problem

Harvey656@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

This one is a hard one, as a cis-gender male, I don’t go by my real name. If someone calls me by my birth name I wouldn’t even know they were referring to me.

I think its more to do with gender rather than names, that and the will to be cruel, of course.

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faythofdragons@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Yeah, I go by my middle name and nobody thinks it’s weird.

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- Harvey656@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  The only people that call me by my middle name are my… estranged family. So its sort of an insult in a way. Weird how that works out.
  
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  - faythofdragons@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I get it. There’s a nickname only my estranged family uses.
    
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    Harvey656@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Honestly, I’d rather go by ‘Malcronax the Ultimate Destroyer’ but Harvey works well in most cases. That’s what most call me.
    
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