First of all, I literally started that comment with “I don’t misgender people” so idk why people keep saying “just use the pronouns”. I do.

Second, my problem is that western leftists care way more about the “serious mental harm” of people in the global north over the absolute physical slaughter of people in the global south, or even people in marginalized communities in the global north. The social gatekeeping is an exercise in extreme privilege that is severely fucking grim.

You did, its just that Bread and Lad are two different posters and I think you merged their shit takes into one super shit take

unless my boy whom I love @Bread_In_Baltimore also said he cant see himself using people’s pronouns.

say it ain’t so

I genuinely dont mean this in any offensive way, but I had no idea what your first sentence was even supposed to mean until I realized you were talking about a person after 3 or 4 re-reads and I was literally the person to ask you for an example.

It kind of defeats the purpose of a pronoun if nobody realizes it is even referring to a person when it is used. I am arguing from a point of practicality whereas your opinion is very clearly emotionally charged considering this is your friends preferred pronouns which is understandable.

I feel that this specific discussion has only minor relevance to transgenderism overall, and is a bit more complex than that.

I mean it’s not far off. There is a reason that regular people from marginalized communities roll their eyes at us. I can’t fathom the reaction that any of the poor black folks or immigrants I work with on the regular seeing this shit. If people want to talk about alienating potential comrades, I think that’s the direction I’d take the conversation.

My point stands, bridges are looking pretty tempting

The vast majority of people are not ever going to be comfortable with deer pronouns and that’s just a fact. What you’re saying is that we must box these people out until they’re sufficiently compliant with radical social values held by a fraction of a fraction of a percent of people in the world.

Like I don’t care. I will call you a deer if it makes you happy. But I’m not everyone, and the struggles for Liberation needs mass support. Not just locally or domestically but globally. People are saying “if you don’t use neopronouns you’re not a leftist” and all I can think is “would a devout muslim refugee whose family was slaughtered by US-funded wahhabists be comfortable using neopronouns, and would we box them out of the struggle of they weren’t”