Tasha Frank
@NLOFrank · 4:40
'I will never date a girl with pronouns' and other uneducated arguments
I've heard them more. I'm really concerned about this per person TikTok who declared they would never date a girl with pronouns because his dating life is not going to go very well with that. And I fear for their loneliness. This is a bit of a tongue in cheek review of some of these things, and I don't mean to be taking transphobia lightly. I take it very seriously. In fact, however, what I have also noticed is that there are lots of these things
Sontaia Briggs
@PKBriggs · 1:13
So we got more pronouns or pronouns being used differently because people have always been different. But now it is in our awareness and as a form of acknowledgment, respect and just clarity. There we go. The use of pronouns, the use of pronouns in a way that we didn't before. But we didn't create the pronouns. They're gay people didn't create the pronouns. The pronouns were always there except for the new ones. But you know what I mean? Thank you for this
Tasha Frank
@NLOFrank · 4:24
And so I completely understand that we have labels for different characteristics and different gender. But it's male and female. But it's gone beyond that to people judging people on who like their whole being. I get looked at. And I've had people say to me very skeptical things like, love, we're talking about action movies come back when we talk about Chip flicks, just because I'm assigned female at birth because I've got different genitals
Sontaia Briggs
@PKBriggs · 2:19
Then we want to lean into the as if we should have no categories or no labels. It's an interesting word, right. Because you do need labels to some degree. But it doesn't mean that you always need to be labeled right? Or the label has to be so inconclusive because some things like as we've learned, right. And as time goes on, gender identity expression. I don't know if sexuality is. I know a few of them. You could tell me
Tracy Bohren
@Bixy · 1:02
My very favorite was a sign that somebody made that said, anybody who uses they them needs to go back to their high school English class and review their pronouns and love the I roll. Like, do you just realize what you did? Do you even see how you just used they them as a singular without even being aware that you did it because it comes so naturally, it just makes my hand go to my face, and my head start shaking
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Tasha Frank
@NLOFrank · 1:18
And then instantly I see things all the time of people on social media who are saying things like that, and then instantly if someone says, but what would you do if you didn't know if somebody had dropped the bag and you didn't know their pronouns? And then they literally turn around and say, oh, I would say they have dropped the bag. And it's like, Can you just hear yourself? As you said, I was the moment I often like, smack my boss ahead