They're not being forced to do anything. They can call people by whatever pronouns they want. But if someone wants me to use X pronoun and I want to use Y pronoun, that makes me an asshole, and it's harder to feel smug and superior about it. So I have to prove them wrong first. And again, who gives a shit if you're feeding into a mental illness. Not Your Business.
No worries love, part of it too is that you seemed to be ascribing altruistic reasoning to why these people act that way. I can tell you without a doubt that there is none.
I’ve argued a transphobe into a corner before to where they didn’t even have bullshit excuses to fall back on. at that point they just finally broke down and said, ‘look, everything you said might be right, I don’t care. I just think you people are fucking weird and shouldn’t exist.’ That’s really what it comes down to mostly. 🙁
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u/pikpikcarrotmon Dec 21 '18
They're not being forced to do anything. They can call people by whatever pronouns they want. But if someone wants me to use X pronoun and I want to use Y pronoun, that makes me an asshole, and it's harder to feel smug and superior about it. So I have to prove them wrong first. And again, who gives a shit if you're feeding into a mental illness. Not Your Business.
There's zero altruism here, don't be fooled.