woah woah woah, is that a greatsword in your pants or are you j- oh oh it is a greatsword, uhhhhhhhhhh
sorry i think i heard my Lord calling me back to the castle, gotta go, sorry!
You know I didn’t think about this comparison until reading your comment, but like:
Back in the medieval period, it was vitally important (socially) that people understood your background and standing in society, because there were pretty strict rules about how one class of people is supposed to treat another. Like whether you were a social “superior” or “inferior” type shit. That’s how we got things like “your majesty” and how you might not be allowed to turn your back to someone while leaving them if they were a “superior”. In a lot of places in the world, wearing a kind of hat was legally required because that signalled “who you were” and how people needed to act.
A lot of those rules were done away with post French Revolution/modernity because the idea that people were supposed to be equal caught on. So nowadays the idea that you might have to kneel at the sight of someone because of who they are or not refer to them directly in speech because they’re “above you” is considered unthinkable.
I dunno, I guess now I see parallels between that old way of social thought and coming out today. It’s not as strict as the medieval thing (I don’t think we’re at the point where you legally have to come out or else you have committed a crime) but it seems like something cishet people socially expect queer people to do to “know who they are dealing with and how.”
unironically i don’t see a reason why anyone should care about my gender unless they are close to me or have hopes of unlocking my underwear DLC
“What’s in your pants?”
“Why? Are you interested?”
Usually stops people in their tracks
- “why, are you interested?”
“yes 👁👄👁”
- “👁👄👁”
LMAO, Underwear DLC. I’m trolling my partner with that tomorrow…
YOU THERE.
I SEEK THE GLORY OF BATTLE. WITH WHAT WILL YOU FACE ME?
(provided you agree, ofc)
woah woah woah, is that a greatsword in your pants or are you j- oh oh it is a greatsword, uhhhhhhhhhh
sorry i think i heard my Lord calling me back to the castle, gotta go, sorry!
Bad reason: need to know what strict societal rules you are supposed to be following
Good reason: pronouns are humanizing and need to know which ones to use
You know I didn’t think about this comparison until reading your comment, but like:
Back in the medieval period, it was vitally important (socially) that people understood your background and standing in society, because there were pretty strict rules about how one class of people is supposed to treat another. Like whether you were a social “superior” or “inferior” type shit. That’s how we got things like “your majesty” and how you might not be allowed to turn your back to someone while leaving them if they were a “superior”. In a lot of places in the world, wearing a kind of hat was legally required because that signalled “who you were” and how people needed to act.
A lot of those rules were done away with post French Revolution/modernity because the idea that people were supposed to be equal caught on. So nowadays the idea that you might have to kneel at the sight of someone because of who they are or not refer to them directly in speech because they’re “above you” is considered unthinkable.
I dunno, I guess now I see parallels between that old way of social thought and coming out today. It’s not as strict as the medieval thing (I don’t think we’re at the point where you legally have to come out or else you have committed a crime) but it seems like something cishet people socially expect queer people to do to “know who they are dealing with and how.”
So you just walk backwards until they’re out of sight?
Yep! This would be something you’d be expected to do in a royal court (or even in a regular noble’s presence) if you held lower station.
if people care what pronouns you use they’ll generally make it obvious, otherwise just default to they/them and things work fine
Substituting all pronouns with the word human seems the most human thing a human could do.
And extremely confusing. So let’s go!
You could do that, but “they” does a good enough job, I think.
who is this “they” and what job are they doing adequately? hm?