Violet Rose in The Rain 
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> why is it so difficult to just let people say what they want?[/bq]
Because being misgendered isn't fun and also dehumanising.
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> It seems like it uses way more energy to whine about that than to just ignore it, I doubt they’ll be heartbroken about someone they hardly know not calling them a preferred pronoun.[/bq]
Alright, imagine having someone call you by your wrong pronoun. Then imagine that happening to you with almost everybody you meet throughout your entire day. Your neighbour, your boss, the cashier at the check-out lane, the person who sits beside you on the bus or train -
And you know something? Compound that with the psychological distress trans people get from gender dysphoria and it really doesn't end well. All they're asking for is to be addressed by their preferred pronoun, a change in a few words and yet here you are, making it out to be some Herculean task.
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> and to change pre established social norms that have been around for thousands of years is a lot more difficult to learn than to just keep using what’s normal[/bq]
Slavery was a pre-established norm for thousands of years, but that doesn't make it okay. The duration of how long a phenomenon has been around doesn't automatically grant it legitimacy, especially if it's morally wrong.
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> I’m gay but I don’t expect every person to just accept it, as long as they don’t infringe on my rights or try to hurt it doesn’t really matter
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> it honestly takes so much more energy to whine about your pronouns and spend time trying to justify why you should be be called those things, and to force the people you perceive to be below to say them than it does to just apologize and adjust your vernacular and habits to be at the most basic level of accommodation.
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> you see what did there? ;)[/bq]
A few seconds of memorisation of a few different words for pronouns. That's what we're asking for.
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> I support the trans community but sometimes I have a hard time justifying it when I see the shit they do and the way they are held on pedestals[/bq]
Translation: They better conform to my personal expectations of what's considered to be normal cause I'm splitting the moment they dare act differently.
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> It legit worries me that with how modern liberals act we might see all the good we accomplished getting trans and gay people’s rights taken away in the pushback against the overly pc culture that has arisen from it[/bq]
So calling for the basic right to be treated equally is somehow overly PC culture that deserves to be dismantled.
**No one is getting jailed for using the wrong pronouns.** Maybe one or two got fired from their jobs for it, but guess what? That's what happens when you don't act professional in the workplace and treat your colleagues like actual fucking human beings,.
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> why is it so difficult to just let people say what they want?
Because being misgendered isn't fun and also dehumanising.
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> It seems like it uses way more energy to whine about that than to just ignore it, I doubt they’ll be heartbroken about someone they hardly know not calling them a preferred pronoun.
Alright, imagine having someone call you by your wrong pronoun. Then imagine that happening to you with almost everybody you meet throughout your entire day. Your neighbour, your boss, the cashier at the check-out lane, the person who sits beside you on the bus or train -
And you know something? Compound that with the psychological distress trans people get from gender dysphoria and it really doesn't end well. All they're asking for is to be addressed by their preferred pronoun, a change in a few words and yet here you are, making it out to be some Herculean task.
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> and to change pre established social norms that have been around for thousands of years is a lot more difficult to learn than to just keep using what’s normal
Slavery was a pre-established norm for thousands of years, but that doesn't make it okay. The duration of how long a phenomenon has been around doesn't automatically grant it legitimacy, especially if it's morally wrong.
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> I’m gay but I don’t expect every person to just accept it, as long as they don’t infringe on my rights or try to hurt it doesn’t really matter
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> it honestly takes so much more energy to whine about your pronouns and spend time trying to justify why you should be be called those things, and to force the people you perceive to be below to say them than it does to just apologize and adjust your vernacular and habits to be at the most basic level of accommodation.
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> you see what did there? ;)
A few seconds of memorisation of a few different words for pronouns. That's what we're asking for.
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> I support the trans community but sometimes I have a hard time justifying it when I see the shit they do and the way they are held on pedestals
Translation: They better conform to my personal expectations of what's considered to be normal cause I'm splitting the moment they dare act differently.
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> It legit worries me that with how modern liberals act we might see all the good we accomplished getting trans and gay people’s rights taken away in the pushback against the overly pc culture that has arisen from it
So calling for the basic right to be treated equally is somehow overly PC culture that deserves to be dismantled.
**No one is getting jailed for using the wrong pronouns.** Maybe one or two got fired from their jobs for it, but guess what? That's what happens when you don't act professional in the workplace and treat your colleagues like actual fucking human beings