After hearing about this, I needed to research - being a cis white male and all. My question was: what exactly does it mean when somebody wants their pronouns to be “he/they?” “He” is a singular subject pronoun. “They” is a plural subject pronoun. So...do you occasionally want to be two or more entities? I researched this some more, and the only site I found that actually used “(s)he/they” used this example: “Xena ate their food because she was hungry.” But then I got MORE confused, because...does that mean that certain people have different views of their own gender, based on whether they are subject or object? Like, could somebody identify as “he/her?” Also, that sounds like Xena’s stealing someone else’s food. Anyway, the only explanation I could find is that “he/they” means that a person identifies as “he,” but won’t be insulted if you use “they.” I feel like I’d be insulted, because if somebody you know well keeps using “they,” they’re basically denying you your chosen gender.
My understanding is that it's an either/or thing. Like "Hey, refer to me as he, or if you reject the gender binary in its entirety, they is cool with me as well."
I totally understand that. My confusion was in Elliot Page specifically saying “my pronouns are he/they,” and what that meant specifically, since both words are for use in the same exact way, just with the single/plural difference.
Rafer Johnson, 1960 Olympic Decathlon champion and one of the persons who caught and held Sirhan Sirhan after the shooting of Robert Kennedy.
without getting too much into serious thread stuff, I think it means that she (now he) is gay in the biological sense that Elliot is biologically a woman, though the trans thing means some form of transition, and thus likes women. I get the whole "you feel that you are something else other than what your biological sex is." I'm okay with that. I'm just confused by what this means and how we should approach it, if it even means anything for his/her acting or how we are to approach him/her as an individual. The idea is for clarity, and this only leaves me more confused. Either way, I think Ellen/Elliot page is a wonderful actor/tress, and I like that it bring attention to an otherwise marginalized issue. Just hopefully this doesn't spell the death of Elliot's acting career, as I quite enjoyed it (to the extent that I watched Juno a bunch).
Bro, I think I am a transgendered lesbian, I am just lazy about it. I really need to read on how all this shit works.
The only people I see forcefully pushing the Latinx are liberal white people. Trying to go out of their way to “fix” other languages arrogantly. The gender neutral way to describe male and female Latin people is actually Latinos. Even people from within that demographic are trying to tell white people to STFU about it already. Ironically, my iPhone tried to autocorrect that stupid garbage correctly.
They is often used in normal parlance for a single person. "I heard Bob came to talk to you the other day, what'd they want?" It's unlikely that you notice it, and when you stop to think about it you probably think "Nah, I'd totally have used he/she." However, if you record what people _actually_ say, they use "they" a lot more than one'd think. Elliot saying he/they is most likely acceptance of he/him and they/them pronouns, but shortened. That being said, you can avoid the issue all together through consistent use of a person's name. In written correspondence, it's often considered more clear, and better practice, to dispose with the use of pronouns all together.
My personal pronouns are xim/xer and I am freely omnisexual strictly depending on the presence of lots of hot chicks. Free speech is not worth the risk of letting people say what’s on their mind.
The fact that the word folx* is not too far behind fucking irritates the shit out of me as well. * Folx is gender neutral for folks because apparently that wasn't gender neutral or inclusive enough. Gotta add the x.