Comment on JK Rowling prefers two years in jail over using correct pronouns

tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Chais@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  He doesn’t.

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  • vanquesse@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    assuming you didn’t make a typo, this ain’t cute. The signal you’re sending is that respecting pronouns is a privilege you reserve for people you agree with.

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    • Chais@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s more that I’m giving her a taste of her own medicine. She doesn’t extend this basic courtesy to people she disagrees with, so why should anyone give it to her?

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      • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Because it isn’t just hurting she/her, it is also hurting the people who want to be called a different pronouns.

        So better to keep referring to her cis pronouns every time she/her is mentioned.

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      • vanquesse@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Because the signal you’re sending to trans people is that you don’t think respecting our pronouns is a human right.

        She is so vile and toxic in such obvious ways - why not attack her for her wrongs instead?

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  • casmael@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Personally I think pronouns should be abolished altogether - think of the cumulative time you could save by trimming the language like that. Trim the fat. After all, why use many word when few word do trick?

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    • doleo@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Said same thing to friend, earlier. Said to was a stupid idea and need functional words to build meaningful sentences. Don't agree with.

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      • imatree@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yet here I am, reading your sentence twice to understand it.

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    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Completely agreed.

      Pronouns stem from a time when it mattered whether or not a sentence was about a man or a woman. Sentences about men were given a higher status.

      Once we accepted women are equal to men, it really doesn’t matter what the gender is of the person the sentence is about. They are human, that should be enough.

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    • Arrakis@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Pronouns are double plus ungood.

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• iegod@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s hyperbole and she is referring to being forced to think a particular thing. She’s not wrong on the premise. But no one wants to analyze this because thinking and discord are hard.

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  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    She can still think whatever she wants, she just isn’t allowed to call people names they don’t want.

    It is like me calling you “asshole” the whole time, and then proudly announcing that I would rather go to jail than stop calling you asshole.

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    • iegod@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      She can call people whatever she wants that’s the point. You don’t go to jail for calling me an asshole. Being forced to use speech that counters her actual thoughts is the part she’s willing to go to jail for. You would likely do the same for your own beliefs.

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