Hexagons

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[–] Hexagons@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I understand your point of view more than most of the arguments I've seen against mandatory pronouns. So please take my comment as friendly, I'll do my best not to be a rude asshole.

How would you feel about (any) for your pronoun choice? That's functionally the same as not listing them, people can still choose which ones they want to use for you, but it still shows you're supportive of people prominently displaying their pronouns. That or you could consider maybe a neopronoun. I personally really like e/em/eir. They're nice and genderless, easy to use, and, bonus, a mathematician came up with them in like the '70s (I could have the year wrong and I refuse to look it up), not because he was trying to be trans inclusive, but because he hated that math books assumed their readers were all men and he wanted to include women in his writing. (Singular they was considered ungrammatical at that point.)

[–] Hexagons@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago

No, they don't. I personally know a cis person who has their pronouns on hexbear set as they/them or comrade/them. Those aren't the pronouns they use in real life.

If someone assumes you're trans simply because your pronouns are set to something other than she/her or he/him, that's kind of on them. People are allowed to lie on the internet. Choose any pronouns you like, it doesn't matter.

I personally assume absolutely nothing about the cisness or transness of someone with "any" or "none/use name" as their pronouns of choice.

[–] Hexagons@hexbear.net 3 points 7 months ago

Do you really believe this? Red hat is paying people to shill for them on lemmy? I don't suppose I could trouble you for some evidence of that, could I?

[–] Hexagons@hexbear.net 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Paid moderators? Why do you think they get paid? Who do you think is paying them?

[–] Hexagons@hexbear.net 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

But "Zionist" doesn't mean the same thing anymore, and I bet he doesn't fully grasp what he's identifying with in a modern sense.

So we're in the position where a sitting US president is making speeches using words he doesn't understand? Wow, that does not seem great. Maybe we should have a president who knows what words mean, you know?

Also, I have to admit, I don't care if someone has genocide as a goal or not. I care a bit more about their actions. Will a person's actions lead to more genocide? If so, then I think that person should be removed from power, immediately, regardless of what they think about genocide.

[–] Hexagons@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

OP, why did you post this? What do you hope people reading will get out of it?

Why didn't you link the original source: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/09/27/18859198.php

Did you notice that the text sounds like it was written by a bad ai?

If I were a little more cynical, I'd say you're posting this because you want people to read the headline, think to themselves "China bad", then move on with their day, doing no more investigation into the matter.

If the above paragraph was not your intention, please explain to me what exactly you were hoping to achieve here.

[–] Hexagons@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not the issue. She is a public figure and has shared her own photos. The issue is that Channel 7 falsely implied she regrets her transition. Channel 7 is trying to use a happily transitioned trans person as an example of someone harmed by childhood transition, and that's slimy as hell

[–] Hexagons@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

I try to stay civil outside hexbear, but this post is testing my resolve on that. Are you really so treat-brained that you're ok with forcing children to mine cobalt so you can have a smartphone?

You should take some time and think about whether that's really the kind of person you want to be

[–] Hexagons@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

The source for this? Radio Free Asia interviewed one (1) anonymous person.