• Ragdoll X@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    You’re moving the goalpost as treating other races as equals and using different pronouns are not the same thing, but again the argument can be turned against you: Why are you rude towards Christians simply because they prefer to use a different pronoun when referring to you? Is taking “no” for an answer such a great difficulty?

    • KidnappedByKitties@lemm.ee
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      7 months ago

      To be fair, you started moving the goalposts by invoking special privilege/motivation for misaddressing people.

      But to answer why I would be rude to christians for misnaming me, is because in my culture it is rude to misname people, and even more so when they’ve offered a good natured correction.

      If you say you’re William, and I call you Shirley, would you defend my right to call you Shirley?

      And why would it be different if The Almighty Bob said to surely call you Shirley?

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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      7 months ago

      Rude to Christians? They’re the ones who are saying their religion tells them that they can’t call other people what those people want to be called. That is the rude thing. How would you like it if I used a pronoun for you that was not the one you went by? You’d probably think it was rude. How about if I said it was against my religion to call you by the pronoun that fits your gender? You’d probably still think it was rude.

      And it would not be rude to tell them off for doing so.

      That said, in my experience, most trans and nonbinary people are incredibly patient with people like you who refuse to use their pronouns even though you’re being extremely rude to them.