Apologies for the delay but here they are. As per usual, if your pronouns aren't in the list, please comment them here and I'll see that they get added.

UPDATE: “Undecided” and “None/Use Name” have now been added.

  • TransComrade69 [she/her,ze/hir]
    17·
    4 years ago

    Damn, I feel bad for you if this is what's turning you stupidpol, to be honest. If you can show me a place on the doll where it hurts you to address someone in the way they identify, F tier takes like this will be taken more seriously. We're all just cosmic amoebas here for a short time, nothing truly matters enough to be negative and invalidating of someone else's existence. They're all just sounds that we ascribed meaning to, what's to stop us from ascribing different meanings to existing words, haha. If you can reduce human suffering even a little and make someone feel more comfortable being themselves in a world where suffering is becoming exponentially more intense with something as simple as this, I literally can't imagine why anyone wouldn't, it's not that hard to at least make an effort.

    Furthermore, I'd rather validate someone else's existence if it's a serious request but could be perceived as a meme request than deny them. At best, cat/girl is how someone wants to identify; at worst, it's a cute bit of trans culture built into the website and I think that speaks volumes of our trans acceptance. Either way, I really don't care and it's not my position to judge. Just let go of your animosity and preconceived notions of how humans are meant to interact with one another, haha. :P

    • footfaults [none/use name]
      ·
      4 years ago

      It's cool that folks who want their pronouns now have the ability to have their pronouns used, and their wishes respected. I'm all for it.

      There's some old farts on here from way back, when people purposely logged onto the internet and took great pains to avoid exposing anything about who they were, off the internet. I kinda groused about it here. It's where that phrase "On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog" comes from. People didn't want people to know who they really were on the internet. The internet was a whole new plane of existence, something that you could use to escape the confines of "meatspace" where for the most part your station had already been determined for you by circumstances of birth and socio-economic status.

      I think it's a shame that Web 2.0 shattered that mindset. People were encouraged to log on as who they were in meatspace, which brought all the bad baggage from the real world straight into the internet. It really ruined it.

      Sure, back in the day you could choose to post with your real name. But it was optional. I feel like something was lost though, and we're more confined these days by the change in culture of the internet where more and more of our identity comes from who we are behind the screen.

      I'm sure there's a ton of caveats. I mean, let's be real, who was on the internet in the 90's. I have no illusions about how homogeneous the people using the internet back then were. But the idea was still something beautiful and had so much potential.

      Anyway, it's cool that there's a "None/Use Name" option, that sort of captures the spirit of what I sort of remember about the Good Old Days, but I figured it was worth maybe sharing a perspective. There are people who aren't choosing pronouns for their handle and it's not malicious. It's just some of us came up in a different time....

      • Speaker [e/em/eir]
        6·
        4 years ago

        If you were serious about opsec you'd just use fake pronouns instead of writing an essay.

        • cumwaffle [she/her]
          5·
          4 years ago

          the whole argument is so ridiculous anyway, as if pronouns are going to be the thing that's gonna get someone doxxed

      • grouchy [she/her]
        1·
        4 years ago

        I'm one of those old farts and really didn't want to jump in on this conversation, but anonymity =/= lack of identity and related baggage. Also something something the internet enabled constructed identities rather than providing blank slates.

      • the_river_cass [she/her]
        8·
        4 years ago

        the notion that we can all abandon our identities online only works if you're coming from the default, majority identity. that's why everyone was "he" online back then. you're romanticizing something oppressive, very alike reactionaries and whatever golden age they think they'd prefer.

      • joshieecs [he/him,any]
        1·
        4 years ago

        They should make "anon" a gender. 😤 Then we can use 4chan speak. What do you think, anon?