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dainkinkaide posted...

Kungfu Kenobi posted...

adjl posted...

Think of it like handedness: The vast majority of the population is right-handed, so assuming that somebody is right-handed until stated or demonstrated otherwise is pretty reasonable. If they tell you they're left-handed, though, it's very simple to say "oh, okay," and not buy them right-handed scissors or expect them to sit at righty desks moving forward. If you say "no you're not use your right hand and stop trying to be a special snowflake," you're an asshole.

Except that left handed people generally try to adapt to a right handed world unless there's some reason they can't. They don't insist we use their left handed scisors. Gender snowflakes could learn a lot from lefties.

That analogy really got away from you, huh?

See, the scissors in adjl's analogy are representing the pronouns one chooses to identify by. Ergo, in your complete failure of a counterargument you're implying that transgender/non-binary/genderqueer individuals are forcing cisgender people to be referred to by the various pronouns most associated with said non-cisgendered people, which is the exact opposite of what's actually happening in almost every conceivable way.

I had to take liberties with a mangled analogy in order to make it work. Words are tools, scissors are tools, and tools are best understood in with the verb "use" not "give". You use words, you don't give them. Ya' follow?

So try to keep up here: people are being insisted open to use left handed tools, and many right handed people (and a surprising and growing number of lefties like myself) aren't sure those tools are the best ones for the job.
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