Stallman Still Heading the GNU Project

Re:Stallman Still Heading the GNU Project by Hitton on Friday September 27, 2019 @06:36AM (#21090368)

Will you respect my pronouns if say my pronouns are God/God/Gods? Some people might tolerate it, but for most I doubt. zie,sie,ey,ve,tey,e,xe,ze,ne,shi, furries and similar try to use fae, plant, bun, star, void. And that's just few examples. Most people will reasonably draw a line somewhere. Some people just decide to draw line behind he/she and maybe also consider if the person appears vaguely male/female.

One could also make claim that choosing some ridiculous new pronoun is disrespectful of others. People were content with he/she for thousands of years and some could consider inventing new ones similar to 1984's Newspeak.

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Re:Stallman Still Heading the GNU Project by mnsc on Friday September 27, 2019 @07:32AM (#21090712)

> One could also make claim that choosing some ridiculous new pronoun is disrespectful of others.

Of course, but that hypothetical person who put forward this claim doesn't subscribe to the generally accepted definition of respect so I don't see why we should discuss that person.

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Re:Stallman Still Heading the GNU Project by sooheon on Friday September 27, 2019 @07:54AM (#21090854)

Is there an approved list of pronouns it is OK to choose from?

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Re:Stallman Still Heading the GNU Project by mnsc on Friday September 27, 2019 @08:01AM (#21090909)

I don't understand where this question comes from?

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Re:Stallman Still Heading the GNU Project by sooheon on Friday September 27, 2019 @08:13AM (#21090989)

Since you said a hypothetical person who wants to be called by a ridiculous pronoun doesn't share your definition of respect, I'm wondering if you have an opinion on which desired pronouns are repectable and which aren't.

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Re:Stallman Still Heading the GNU Project by stOneskull on Friday September 27, 2019 @08:54AM (#21091350)

i find getting called 'cis' quite disrespectful. offensive even. doubly so when light skin color, 'white', is used to generalize and demonize. hypocrisy is the worst.

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Re:Stallman Still Heading the GNU Project by mnsc on Friday September 27, 2019 @10:57AM (#21092681)

> Since you said a hypothetical person who wants to be called by a ridiculous pronoun

Ok. Now I understand. Read my comment again. We're talking about hypotetical person A who claims that another hypothetical B person who wants to be called by a ridiculous pronoun is disrespectful.

A says that B is disrespectful.

I said that it is A who doesn't know what respect is.

Sorry that you got confused.

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Re:Stallman Still Heading the GNU Project by x220 on Friday September 27, 2019 @05:25PM (#21096431)

Do you think that there's any limit on what pronouns people can demand to be called? Can my pronoun be "intergalactic emperor/intergalactic emperor's/intergalactic emperor"? Can every person have their own unique set of pronouns? Can every person have more than one set of pronouns which they switch throughout the day depending on their fluid sense of gender?

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Re:Stallman Still Heading the GNU Project by mnsc on Saturday September 28, 2019 @01:41PM (#21101708)

No. Yes. Yes. Yes. ¯\(°_o)/¯

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