WtfEvenIsExistence@lemmy.ca to Memes@lemmy.mlEnglish · 10 months agoEnglish Language Problemslemmy.caimagemessage-square222fedilinkarrow-up1907arrow-down138
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minus-squareMrSqueezles@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoWe have a pretty good genderless pronoun, but have also decided that to not assign a gender to a person makes them not human. I’ve been hoping we’d challenge that preconception. Anyone can call me, “it”, anytime.
minus-squareN-E-N@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoI call animals “it” sometimes cause their sex is wildly irrelevant to me, and people get so offended lmao
We have a pretty good genderless pronoun, but have also decided that to not assign a gender to a person makes them not human. I’ve been hoping we’d challenge that preconception. Anyone can call me, “it”, anytime.
Based, I feel the same
I call animals “it” sometimes cause their sex is wildly irrelevant to me, and people get so offended lmao