You’ve summed up my thoughts very well.
I am very clever.
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My only issue here is how it looks in the eye of the average onlooker like Lintian described and again, only with the online weirdos whose motivations seem to me dubious at best. I was never a fan of the blanket “yeah it’s all well and good” statements because they tend to disregard a lot of critical thinking that should go into, well, everything. Press X to doubt. Always press X, you’ll be a more complete person at the end of it even if you end up agreeing with whatever you initially doubted. Every facet of every issue should be disected at every turn.
Not at all what I was getting at but I do appreciate the concern.
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The best take away.
The only instance I’ve seen people using “it” as a pronoun were ones using it due to the fact it is dehumanising/objectifying and that’s what they as individuals wanted.
Can it be more to others? Sure, but thus far that’s all I’ve seen.
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I understand, I apologize for making it appear so. It was just part of my thought process about it if it makes sense?
As mentioned above, Loras perfectly captured my general thoughts on it all.
I think it comes down to that I am generally an agreeable person, or I think I am. I don’t like doubting people especially when it comes to these kind of matters. I prefer to roll with it and be wrong later than to hurt or upset someone by doubting them & later correct it.
I don’t mind the chance of being played a fool if it also means minimizing the risk of me hurting someone basically.
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It’s easy, free and convenient to just accept that people are uncontested masters of their own experience and you use whatever labels people apply to themselves.
I know a few people who use it pronouns and am friends with several who use neopronouns - you respect their identity and move on. I am not asking.
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A great, great many people will never accept us regardless of the tone we take, so I am not going to disparage others exploring their identities to cater to those people who won’t accept me in the hopes that one day they might.
Yeah I genuinely don’t think it’s really a thing at all. Like others have said, just another super minority that’s been blown up as a dogwhistle.
Based + true.
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My (hypothetical because I don’t really have one) philosophy on the use of unconventional pronouns would never be more important than a person’s lived experience and identity, for sure.
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They are themselves and can inform. Their identity will be respected, as I’d expect my own to be.
We are all people and everyone is different.
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Only identity I don’t respect is the tauren roleplayer
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It’s usually just how things sound, for me - they feels nice, she feels incorrect, he sticks in the throat and getting called a man makes my soul shrivel a little
well obviously that’s a given
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I agreed with you right up until this.
Bro I don’t have time, I’m tired. There’s so much going on in the world and I just want to get on with it.
I normally don’t agree with Loras, and I’m very confused about the whole pronoun situation and very broadly fit into
this category. If it comes up, and it hasn’t yet for me outside of online communication, I’ll just go with the pronoun they want because I’m:
- Not informed enough to get into a conversation about it/dispute it, if that’s what I wanted to do
- Tired and kind of just want to get on with my day without causing an unnecessary fuss
It doesn’t even just apply to the pronoun conversation, it applies to everything that online discourse obsesses over and expects everyone to be hyper informed of. I do the best I can to stay generally abreast of issues that are happening in the wider world, but I also have more pressing concerns like doing my job (which I should be doing right now but I’d rather 
post) and keeping a healthy family life. That in itself takes up close to 90% of my day before I even get around to looking after myself, which I’d rather spend being a cowboy on my playstation than deepdiving and doubting everything that comes my way.
Mental health for me right now looks like just doubting and fact checking stuff that is having a very direct impact on my life, for example financial decisions, health, local politics for elections etc.
Sorry I rambled a bit here.
I don’t usually get involved for the above stated reasons, but I felt I had to get in on this particular point.
damn i now have to strikethrough this entire post
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How about gnomes?
I expect this of Loras, but you?
On a completely unrelated note.
As much as I dislike dissociated mechanics, I dislike wrongly associated mechanics even more.
LOTRO has the problem that resurrection doesn’t exist in Middle-earth except for extremely unique and special, once-per-three-thousand-years events. So in their infinite wisdom, they called hit points “morale”, but it’s morale that works exactly like hit points.
Your enemies deplete your morale by swinging their swords at you. You kill them by swinging your sword at them so much that it literally scares them to death. And if enemies damage you so hard that your morale drops to zero, it means you’re so overcome by fear that you run away from battle to the nearest spawn point.
It’s a really weird fig leaf that isn’t fooling anyone, and I won’t be surprised if LOTRO players just call morale “HP” colloquially.
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Betrayal stings.
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Why are you lying?
Very valid. There’s plenty of stuff I’m not super informed about. But even if I don’t understand something, I will typically default to respecting the person’s wishes. One, it’s easier. Two, it’s the polite option.
What’s a gnome?
When I first played LOTRO I thought Morale was a cool concept.
Until I fought random wolves or enemies that obviously died. Or I fell down Weathertop. Then it became silly.
Please you can’t do this to me.
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runescape gnome is the only kind of gnome i can vibe with
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