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Shenti_Reborn posted...

DeathMagnetic80 posted...

Does it REALLY effect your life in any way to call someone what they want to be called? For fuck sake, we all agreed call a guy Puff Daddy, then P.Diddy. Then Diddy. If Rick wants to suddenly be Rebecca, it's not harming you to to just go with it, even if you feel otherwise. It's about not being an asshole to people for no reason. So, no, it's not "forcing their reality on you" When someone is going through a lot, and finally comes out and says "Hey, I was born male, but I feel like I'm a woman" and someone else is just like "Lol no, that's not a real thing", you can see how it'd be frustrating. Most of us can't really relate, because our gender identity aligns with our biological l sex. We have no idea what THEIR reality is like, aside from when they tell you how they feel. A friend of mine tried to kill himself in high school over this, and finally came out as transgender a couple years ago. She is MUCH happier and healthier feeling like she isn't living a lie anymore.

That's all well and good but they'd still be forcing their reality and views upon me and that's wrong, and one of your supporters LITERALLY just said that we're doing the same thing when we don't refer to them as their preferred label.

You can't just call me an a** h*** because you disagree with me, that's not how this works.

No, I'm calling you an asshole, if you know it will hurt or upset someone to purposely call them something they don't want to be called, and do it anyway. Because that's what assholes do: intentionally do shit knowing it will hurt the feelings of someone else when there's no real reason to do that. It's one thing to accidentally mislabel someone, and when corrected say "Oh, sorry, my mistake" out of respect for their feelings. It's a whole other thing to double down on it. So, don't be an asshole, I won't call you an asshole. It's not rocket science.