Bingo. My name is Jacqueline, I can’t stand to be called Jackie, so people don’t call me that. It’s not that difficult to be respectful of people’s wishes.
@LadyJayPersists Except when you can take shots at their religion, right?
@LadyJayPersists If it’s a name you actually HAVE, yes. And you can be my bodyguard, but I’m not going to call you Al.
@LadyJayPersists That's why I (in a loving way) pick on you by calling you Jay-Quel-Lin lol
@LadyJayPersists That’s not the same as being asked to lie.
There's a difference between respecting someone's noun's and expecting everyone in society to re-program their brain to make pronouns no longer be categorical buckets based on gender norms. If you're Nick and want to be called Nicky that's fine. My brain only has to relabel you. If you're obviously a man and want to be called she that's a whole different thing. That requires other people's brains to re-wire everything they know about what classifies he vs she and apply it uniquely to only Nicky. It's like telling someone from now on you need to call some houses airplanes, but only a few specific houses need to be called airplanes. If you call a house a house based on the fact it meets all the criteria of a house, but it wants to be called airplane you're in trouble and vice versa. It's no longer about what you want to be called, it's telling someone else they don't know how to correctly classify things.
My friend Will in the 5th grade wanted to be called “William” when we got to high school. Eventually almost everyone called him “William” except his parents, and sometimes we still called him “Will” from time to time (ie: “I swear to God, Will, if you knock over this ladder with me on it again…”) We did so for 4 reasons mainly: 1) When my friend got called “Will” he didn’t scream and threaten suicide. 2) He didn’t declare 1,356 holidays dedicated to himself with a hashtag #WilliamRightsAreHumanRights 3) He didn’t accuse his parents of being “unsafe and abusive”. 4) He didn’t support the sterilization and mutilation of children. In closing, here is how we suggest everyone handle transgender cult requests such as the above.
My friend Will in the 5th grade wanted to be called “William” when we got to high school. Eventually almost everyone called him “William” except his parents, and sometimes we still called him “Will” from time to time (ie: “I swear to God, Will, if you knock over this ladder with me on it again…”) We did so for 4 reasons mainly: 1) When my friend got called “Will” he didn’t scream and threaten suicide. 2) He didn’t declare 1,356 holidays dedicated to himself with a hashtag #WilliamRightsAreHumanRights 3) He didn’t accuse his parents of being “unsafe and abusive”. 4) He didn’t support the sterilization and mutilation of children. In closing, here is how we suggest everyone handle transgender cult requests such as the above.
@LadyJayPersists “It’s not that difficult to be respectful”. This is called “weaponizing your kindness / empathy”. Here is a story called, “Be Like Bill” that will hopefully help everyone understand where this goes.
@LadyJayPersists “It’s not that difficult to be respectful”. This is called “weaponizing your kindness / empathy”. Here is a story called, “Be Like Bill” that will hopefully help everyone understand where this goes.