Gregory's Server"Pronouns" in conservative circles is a dog whistle. They fixate on pronouns so they can say transgender people are bad without bumping into hate speech rules. Mocking them for using pronouns themselves or not knowing what pronouns are isn't the burn you think it is.
Have fun with circling all the pronouns in screenshots of their tweets if that's your jam, but remember that you are not the intended audience. It's messaging for others on the far-right and it's way worse than flunking English class
@geekysteven this is a very fair point, I think a lot of people on the left get caught up in the sport of dunking on reactionaries without taking into account that these people do not value logically reasoned facts the way we do. In many ways, the pronoun stuff is like a thought-terminating cliche, either you're part of the in group who hates having to consider pronouns or you're an outsider who will identify themselves by making arguments against their use of English. It's just not effective, and without a comprehensive way to strike back against their transphobia then I feel like you may just be at risk of spreading that hate unintentionally.
@geekysteven this is a very fair point, I think a lot of people on the left get caught up in the sport of dunking on reactionaries without taking into account that these people do not value logically reasoned facts the way we do. In many ways, the pronoun stuff is like a thought-terminating cliche, either you're part of the in group who hates having to consider pronouns or you're an outsider who will identify themselves by making arguments against their use of English. It's just not effective, and...