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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • You have a 50/50 split of upvotes and downvotes, so you’re hovering around 0 give or take.

    Personally and if I understand you correctly, I pretty much share your view.

    If someone looks/acts like a specific gender based on cultural norms and personal experience, I’ll default to calling the person that gender. It’s just a simpler and easier form of communication, and takes just a moment to correct if the opposite is desired.

    They/them is technically usable but really clumsy sounding in English because that changes the entire sentence structure to plural even when you are speaking about a singular. Which is a personal pet peeve.

    It feels more natural to default to a neutral “he” and change to feminine “she” if corrected than it does to default to a plural “they”. Heck I’ve seen someone default to a neutral “she” and it still sounds more natural than a plural as a neutral. Just a personal issue with the English language there.

    And on the side of people who are trans… I have seen sentiment that the whole asking pronouns things makes some people feel very uncomfortable. It’s a constant reminder of being born into the wrong body, and makes it feel like all the effort to pass and be their true selves is meaningless.

    I think I’d rather offend a couple trenders that don’t understand language use than remind someone whose mental health is at stake about that and invalidate their efforts to pass with something so unnecessarily superficial.


  • Ffffffffffffffun thing!

    Someone in a server I was in kept spamming Loss memes. Loss makes me think of losing. Loss memes make me lose The Game

    As per the rules of The Game I announced I lost because I Loss The Game.

    Now Loss = Lose The Game.

    We have been freed if the Loss memes. The Game has freed us.

    Btw I lost The Game.