Paratroopa1 posted... My actual, non-snarky answer is the following:
The validity of someone using a neopronoun that's unique only to them is a matter of debate in the queer community that badly frustrates the small-but-growing minority of people who wish they could use them without being judged for it. I don't really get it, myself, but pretty much the last thing that I would ever want to do is have a conversation about it with someone who insists on being a dismissive jerk about the idea, rather than open-minded and open-hearted for people who want to expand their gender expression in this way, even if I do ultimately kind of feel like the idea of substituting any string of characters for a pronoun is sort of an unwieldy way to treat pronouns. So, like... my recommendation is to be open-minded about the idea because it might really make that person's day? Why not give it a try? Worth a shot. If you ultimately revert to they/them because it's too confusing, the reality of it is that you're probably not going to get called out on this because so few people are willing to play ball with even the most well-known neopronouns, but be mean about it to them and I will come over and roundhouse kick you in the face. or well I'll try and fail and then I'll tell you off probably.
Yeah They/Them is about as far as I am willing to go. I'll they/them someone like that but if they take offense I honestly would probably just not want to be around that person any more because I feel like at that point you are undermining people who legitimately want to be labeled a different pronoun from their sex