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[Kamina]

and when i went to edit my profile i came across the Gender and Pronound selection field that i had appearently forgotten to fill in 9 years ago.
The Pronoun dropdown list had the following options:

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The gender field:

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Can someone explain this to me?

 

[Virex]

More like mental illness selection

 

[-Arcadia-]

Leave that place and don’t look back.

 

[McCheese]

How the fuck would "Please ask" even work on a forum? Before you reply to anybody you must first ask them what made up gender they feel like that moment, is there a time limit to reply to them with that pronoun with before they move onto the next one? like some sort of google gender authenticator.

 

[mcz117chief]

Lol, I think I'll take fae I always liked fairies but I never knew it was a """""""""""gender""""""""""

 

[Grand Theft Scratchy]

Simplicity and being humble are overrated in 2020.

 

[West Texas CEO]

I dunno, it looks like some Old English or Gaelic

 

[Despera]

A good source on how to deal with the introduction of these new pronouns:

Gender Pronouns | LGBTQ+ Resource Center

uwm.edu

Edit: Wait wtf? I didn't know there's a group of people completely opposed to the idea of pronouns and demand to be called by name only...

What the frik

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

wth

 

[Papa]

A good source on how to deal with the introduction of these new pronouns:

Gender Pronouns | LGBTQ+ Resource Center

uwm.edu

Edit: Wait wtf? I didn't know there's a group of people completely opposed to the idea of pronouns and demand to be called by name only...

What the frik

u mentally ill bro?

 

[captainraincoat]

and when i went to edit my profile i came across the Gender selection field that i had appearently forgotten to fill in 9 years ago.
The dropdown list had the following options:


(click image to see the full list)

Can someone explain this to me?

wouldnt be somethingawful.com by any chance?

That forum had become infested with angry trans mods and they basically put lowtax in a box and took over the site

 

[King of Foxes]

Bigots don't even have an option for attack helicopter

 

[kraspkibble]

wtf are the last 3? surely this is a joke?

A good source on how to deal with the introduction of these new pronouns:

Gender Pronouns | LGBTQ+ Resource Center

uwm.edu

Edit: Wait wtf? I didn't know there's a group of people completely opposed to the idea of pronouns and demand to be called by name only...

What the frik

next they'll/it'll be inventing new non gender based names. Maybe Elon + Grimes were on to something...XAEA-12 first then we'll have names like BʊEZ-93 or ψ-oa-0

also i love the section "What if I make a mistake? " ahahaha. RIP i guess

 

[June]

Lol, I think I'll take fae I always liked fairies but I never knew it was a """""""""""gender""""""""""

Wtf. I glanced over this post without taking it seriously But Apparently 'fae' really does refer to someone labelling themself as a fairy.

I'm okay with more options to be honest Like 'It' is fine. And like apparently 'xer' means you don't know the gender of the person. That seems fine too.

But labelling your gender as a fucking fairy? a made up magical being? This is something people actally argued for lmao?

 

[Kamina]

wouldnt be somethingawful.com by any chance?

That forum had become infested with angry trans mods and they basically put lowtax in a box and took over the site

No its not, but lol “trans infestation“

 

[Despera]

also i love the section "What if I make a mistake? " ahahaha. RIP i guess

That part in particular I couldn't read with a straight face

 

[Kamina]

Lol, I think I'll take fae I always liked fairies but I never knew it was a """""""""""gender""""""""""

Wtf. I glanced over this post without taking it seriously But Apparently 'fae' really does refer to someone labelling themself as a fairy.

I'm okay with more options to be honest Like 'It' is fine. And like apparently 'xer' means you don't know the gender of the person. That seems fine too.

But labelling your gender as a fucking fairy? a made up magical being? This is something people actally argued for lmao?

 

[TDiddyLive]

And like apparently 'xer' means you don't know the gender of the person. That seems fine too.

“They, Them” covers not knowing someone’s gender. No reason for that made up word.

 

[Papa]

Wtf. I glanced over this post without taking it seriously But Apparently 'fae' really does refer to someone labelling themself as a fairy.

I'm okay with more options to be honest Like 'It' is fine. And like apparently 'xer' means you don't know the gender of the person. That seems fine too.

But labelling your gender as a fucking fairy? a made up magical being? This is something people actally argued for lmao?

Fae is no bueno but xer is? How do you not know your gender? Like look between your legs naga.

 

[June]

“They, Them” covers not knowing someone’s gender. No reason for that made up word.

I mean, sure. But at least Xer seems to have a reasonable usage.

Calling yourself a fairy is just nonsensical.

 

[Coolwhhip]

It means you need to delete that account.

 

[Cunth]

Please ask

>what’s your gender bro?
>asking my gender??? Reeeeeee

 

[MilkyJoe]

I mean, sure. But at least Xer seems to have a reasonable usage.

Calling yourself a fairy is just nonsensical.

Anyone using pronouns is nonsensical.

 

[Kamina]

Please ask

>what’s your gender bro?
>asking my gender??? Reeeeeee

Ze Cunth

 

[PSYGN]

To think someone was tasked to implement that and likely had to research them Poor guy.

 

[Coolwhhip]

To think someone was tasked to implement that and likely had to research them Poor guy.

Person*

 

[mcz117chief]

Wtf. I glanced over this post without taking it seriously But Apparently 'fae' really does refer to someone labelling themself as a fairy.

I'm okay with more options to be honest Like 'It' is fine. And like apparently 'xer' means you don't know the gender of the person. That seems fine too.

But labelling your gender as a fucking fairy? a made up magical being? This is something people actally argued for lmao?

 

[Husky]

i ask that you all please refer to me with fae faer pronouns from now on

 

[triplestation]

caterpillar gang represent

 

[Kamina]

i ask that you all please refer to me with fae faer pronouns from now on

Alright Xir

 

[West Texas CEO]

How do you not know your gender? Like look between your legs naga.

What are you supposed to tell a hermaphrodite?

 

[Papa]

What are you supposed to tell a hermaphrodite?

Look between your chromosomes bro

 

[Joyful]

wouldnt be somethingawful.com by any chance?

That forum had become infested with angry trans mods and they basically put lowtax in a box and took over the site

no somethingawful still has these choices and has for years

 

[IDKFA]

I had no idea what most of these were. I had to look up Fae and got this answer

"Fae is a fairy themed set of neopronouns created by Tumblr user shadaras in 2014...."

What? So it's for people who identify as a fairy?!

 

[-Arcadia-]

"Fae is a fairy themed set of neopronouns created by Tumblr user shadaras in 2014...."

The wording betrays them. Themed. As if this were a pack of emotes or a PS4 home screen preorder bonus.

Not that anyone needed it to know that this was unchecked vanity for most*, not anything real.

*Severe mental illness for the rest

 

[Papa]

I had no idea what most of these were. I had to look up Fae and got this answer

"Fae is a fairy themed set of neopronouns created by Tumblr user shadaras in 2014...."

What? So it's for people who identify as a fairy?!

Imagine being a university unironically posting a guide to Tumblr pronouns

 

[Cunth]

Imagine being a zoomer. What a nightmare

 

[nush]

That forum had become infested with angry trans mods and they basically put lowtax in a box and took over the site

When they tried that shit on Evilore...

 

[Papa]

Imagine being a zoomer. What a nightmare

Aren’t your kids zoomers

 

[Cunth]

Aren’t your kids zoomers

I’m sending them to the army

 

[Papa]

I’m sending them to the army

This one?

Nice avatar. I'm curious to know what your opinion is on games that glorify the US military and how that isn't political.

Then you have the most political game of all time:

A game literally commissioned by the military arm of a state. It sure is funny that people seem to be ok with these politics in gaming or gun culture which is massively political in the US but, gay people? Oh no! That's too much!

 

[buizel]

At one point "Labels aren't important" and "Don't label me" turned into " LABELS ARE SO IMPORTANT" for some reason

 

[Coolwhhip]

An option should be "there are only 2 genders" to piss the sjw off.

 

[eot]

wouldnt be somethingawful.com by any chance?

That forum had become infested with angry trans mods and they basically put lowtax in a box and took over the site

I never paid the tenbux but I always had the impression SA was a bastion of shitposting and trolling

 

[Kamina]

no somethingawful still has these choices and has for years

At first i read Tortoise

 

[Skyfox]

He him his
She her hers
They them theirs

Nothing else makes sense.

 

[captainraincoat]

When they tried that shit on Evilore...

Even funnier is that most of them that followed are now starting to realise what a shithole it really is

 

[kraspkibble]

i'm trying to imagine someone outside the internet actually saying to someone "i'm neither male nor female. i am *insert whatever gender* and i would like you to refer to me as ve, ver, vemself!"...that's if ver can even bring vemselves to "correct" the person in the first place.

this is the kind of shit people will get away with on the internet but say that to someone in the real world outside your little snowy safeplace and you'll be ignored or locked up.

 

[Scotty W]

The They/Them is based on a lie. From an old post of mine:

I looked at all these links, and in all cases, the author has failed to cite an example that comes close to the 21st century usage.

From the Wikipedia link.

Older usage
Singular they is found in the writings of many respected authors. Here are some examples, arranged chronologically:

• "Eche on in þer craft ys wijs." ("Each one in their craft is wise.") — Wycliffe's Bible, Ecclus. 38.35 (1382)[27]
• "And whoso fyndeth hym out of swich blame, They wol come up..." — Chaucer, "The Pardoner's Prologue" of The Canterbury Tales (c. 1400)[28] quoted by Jespersen and thence in Merriam-Webster's Concise Dictionary of English Usage.[29]
• "Eche of theym sholde ... make theymselfe redy." — Caxton, Sonnes of Aymon (c. 1489)[30]

In the Wycliffe example, their means 'his or her' and refers to 'each one.' In Chaucer, they seems to refer to whoso, which I take to mean whoever. The Caxton is as my Grandmother would have spoken it.

The Miriam-Webster link has only this from Emily Dickinson: "Almost anyone under the circumstances would have doubted if [the letter] were theirs, or indeed if they were themself."

This is a bit of a stretch, but it would almost seem to agree with what you are driving at. Almost. I looked up the Emily Dickinson letter. Here is the Paragraph in question for context:



So theirs and themself seem here to be referring to multiple people, various Mrs. Dickinsons.

The OED article has only this:



Is 'each man' here singular or plural?

 

[Mista]

Holy shit. Having all those they/them she/shem is a joke man!