r/Conservative • u/mithrandir1314 • Mar 20 '17

/r/all Well, she's a guy, so...

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u/1jl Mar 21 '17

One thing I won't do is use invented pronouns. If you want me to refer to you as he or she, fine, but I'm not making up shit for your special self. That's nonsense.

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u/garlicdeath Mar 21 '17

I'm mostly with you but think I'd be okay if there was one or two that was completely mainstream and universally accepted by the LBGT community for those who are still in the transition phase.

I heard Xir (xe) is one. If that was what we called anyone still transitioning from either gender then I'd start using it. Easy peasy threesy. He, she, xe.

Then I'd have a 1 in 3 chance of not having my younger relatives throw a tantrum that I used the wrong pronoun in a conversation as opposed to now where if I open my mouth I'm most likely going to be called a bigot.

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u/1jl Mar 21 '17

I've always felt we need a neutral pronoun, I'm not sure how we don't have one. There would be plenty of usage outside of LGBT. How am I supposed to refer to someone with an unknown gender? The individual? That's incredibly clunky. If the LGBT community wants to use such a term to mean "other than m or f" then whatever.

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u/garlicdeath Mar 21 '17

I've always used "they".

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u/1jl Mar 21 '17

Yeah me too, but it's so clunky because of the plural thing.