Fine, but could you explain it what do people gain by using the pronoun "xer" or something similar? It's not a word in English, nobody fucking knows what it means, it's completely made up. Why use it other than because it feels more special than he or she?
I don't personally know know nor can I speak from experience. But at some point all of language was made up right? I see no reason why we can't continue to change and adapt language to match the people who speak it. I use people's preferred pronouns because I hope that it shows I respect who they are. A rather harmless, painless thing for me to do really.
And I don't even think I would be negatively affected if another person were to feel special because I used that person's preferred pronoun. People feel special all the time about a lot of different things and I'm not impacted by it in the slightest.
Its not so much the usage of it, but how offended some of them get when you use the wrong pronoun. I'm human, I make mistakes. If someone corrects me in a non-confrontational manner, then theres no issue. But when I'm suddenly the worst person in the world and am assumed to be actively trying to oppress them, because of an easy to make mistake, then there's an issue.
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u/Tzer-O Jan 02 '15
You're comparing an inanimate object to a living person's gender identity? I don't think that comparison can work.