I could be an it. A good little toy.
Average blahaj user
:3
“A toy? A Lego set??”, she asked excitedly, and wagged her tail.
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This is why everything is a little shit to me. I’m just getting all of them in one combined s/h/it word.
Turkish has no gender specific pronouns so this is every Turkish speaker I guess
In Chinese, verbally the world for he, she, and it are all the same pronunciation. It is only differentiated in writing.
The written form was neutral until Western influence inspired the creation of a female version, replacing the first radical “person” with “woman”.
Don’t forget the word 祂 for divine beings as the 4th
Going to randomly call people 祂 to fuck with them.
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I never get mad at “it” because it gives me flashbacks to Shale from Dragon Age Origins and I absolutely love her. she’s amazing.
Oh holy fuck I’m rolling!
How have I not seen this image of Radcliffe before? He looks absolutely deranged!
The back story is that he was elbowed in the face on the way to the car, and probably had stage makeup on.
https://chatterbusy.removed/2013/07/daniel-radcliffe-appears-exhausted-with.html?m=1
Why did that word get censored?
Which word?
I have to assume it’s in an automod filter, but I can’t imagine why. Is it a joke like how people say “Fr*nch”?
There’s a pair of asterisk symbols around the word “removed” in the address, and Lemmy or the readers are automatically italicizing what’s between them and then dropping the symbols, which breaks the link.
Using “%2A” gets around that. There might be other ways too.
No, there are no asterisks in the actual URL.
*removed* appears where a word has been removed.
Thanks
Thanks for the context!
Hey kid… wanna buy some drugs?
I’ve run into this a while ago but I’m not sure what to make of it. https://aria.dog/barks/on-being-a-thing/
“It” is personally my favorite neutral pronoun, but it has so much cultural baggage attached to it that it doesn’t feel like a viable option. Why does a squirrel or a ficus or a robot get to be called “it” by default, but not a person? It isn’t fair.
It’s your choice. Do what you want. Damn the haters to sheol.
The haters are the root of the problem, but it’s not like I’m not using it/its because I’m afraid of being scolded or made fun of. It’s unfortunately tied to dehumanization in the sense that not being human is a bad thing, and that makes it fun for bigots to say and uncomfortable for good people to say. I lament the situation, but I also accept the way it is.
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I use ‘it’ to describe ME :3
I have “it” in my Discord description, along with cpt.
No joke: in my native German dialect, women are grammatically neutral.
My then gf was completely shocked when visiting my birth region for the first time.
It still married me, though! :-)A doctor can still use he/she though, right?
Why?
Because having words for describing a person’s body is useful in the medical profession.
Except he/she aren’t words used to describe a person’s body, so what is your point?
Sure it is. When referring to a man’s penis you would say “his penis”.
On a related note, can you catch stupid over the Internet?
But if a woman has a penis then it’s her penis. Medically the penis is the important part, so you can still use “they” in a situation where you’d use “his/her”, both to be a smoother sentence and also to be inclusive of non-binary people.
Yes, you clearly did.
Non-native English speaker here. I was appalled to learn that English conjugated for animacy, and could swear “it” was the gender-neutral pronoun because that’s what was used in Pokemon for example. I’m also not a fan of toggling conjugations mid-sentence, so I prefer to construct sentences with the plural “they”, the expression “that person”, or even the singular “one(self)”, whenever I can
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I’m all for hating the Giants as a cowboys fan. But I’m curious what role it plays in this meme.
