[ SECRET POST #3234 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3234 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.
[Golden Girls]


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02.
[Boku no Hero Academia]


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03.
[C.S. Lewis vs. J.R.R. Tolkien]


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04.
[Pokémon, Leah Remini]


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05.
[Tales of Zestiria]


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06.
[The Man In The High Castle]


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07.
[Marjorie Liu, Sana Takeda, Monstress]


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08.
[Sleepy Hollow]








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Comments

Re: Controversial Opinions

[iceyred]

Honestly, who cares who uses which bathroom as long as they shut the stall door?

I've never heard anyone demand people use any weird, made-up pronouns outside of tumblr.

Re: Controversial Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

I have. I'm a lesbian and joined my university's LGBT group. Loads of people demanding "ze" and one girl (or whatever, she said she was genderqueer) who wanted something different, can't remember exactly what. Kind of baffling.

Re: Controversial Opinions

[iceyred]

Huh. I thought that was a strictly internet only phenomenon. Do you know if they made these demands in their classes too?

Re: Controversial Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

I have no idea, none of them were classmates. Seems like it's a pretty tough battle to fight outside of the internet or social justice groups, but who knows. I've found that university LGBT groups become increasingly ... well, I hate to say SJW, but. yeah. I mean groups like that often are more of a social justice interest group, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I felt that one went a bit too far for what I was personally willing to commit to. My freshman year, it was mostly about more basic gay/transgender issues, and mostly served as a way to meet other queer students (that was before gay marriage passed, of course). By my senior year, it felt like it was all about being angry, and so I stopped going.

Re: Controversial Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

I kinda wish the English language had some gender-neutral, singular pronoun that would be commonly used, and could be used when unclear about someone's gender, or talking about unknown/unspecific/generalised people, and nb people could use that, and it'd be like this standard everyday thing. "They" is kinda used for that now, but it causes confusion because it sounds plural (tbh "you" has the same problem, but at least everyone KNOWS it's used singularly too. Also people use "you" for the people they're talking to, who already know whether they're one person or multiple people, whereas "they" and such are often used about people who aren't present).

I mean, half the timeusing "they" about one specific person is followed by having to explain that I'm not talking about multiple people.

My native language doesn't even have gendered pronouns, we only have the gender-neutral one. Seems to have saved us from a lot of hassle. (We also have different words for plural and singular "you".)

Pronouns are supposed to be these "invisible" words. They're used so that you don't have to repeat a person's name or some noun over and over again. This is why the flashier type of neo-pronouns don't really serve their function very well (plus, it's just plain unreasonable to expect everyone to learn infinite customised neo-pronouns. That's what names and nicknames are for.) So the hypotethical singular neutral pronoun should probably be something simple that fits with "she" and "he". "Ze" could probably work, although I'm a bit wary of the Z in there. It... sounds better than it looks written.

Something like "ae" or just plain "E" might not be a bad idea.

Re: Controversial Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, who cares who uses which bathroom as long as they shut the stall door?

Seconded. If they're not actively bothering me or anyone else, I don't see an issue. I'm there to do my business and get out, not analyze someone's gender.

Re: Controversial Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

Adding on that if someone was being bothersome in a restroom, their gender would be the least of my concerns at that point. Harassment would be scary regardless of who's doing it.

Re: Controversial Opinions

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah.

I don't need to have any awareness of the private parts of the person in a bathroom stall that I, myself, am not currently in.

And like... do people get squicked specifically when they think someone with different genitals might have used the same bathroom at some point? Because like. People using bathrooms is sort of squicky regardless. If it's a public bathroom, then chances are, a bunch of people have pooped, peed, had diarrhea, vomited, and/or menstruated there anyway (and other things I'm not gonna list.) What sex/gender these people have been is like... really not the most gross detail here.