the unfortunate thing is that mostly anyone this thread is describing will (quite intentionally) fail to understand why this behavior is (correctly) perceived as a threat, as to them, assuming pronouns is just as offensive as assuming a black person is a servant
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RT @ne0agent1c
what do I *get out of it*? I don't want to be your friend. leading off with your pronouns is like flashing a huge gun, telling me you keep it loaded and the s…
https://twitter.com/ne0agent1c/status/1419823712086503448
the cultural chasm is just too great, and may just be inherently impossible to bridge due to its nature. polite Western society is built on principles of tolerant apathy; the default assumption is that no one gives enough of a fuck about anyone else to bother insulting them
however, gender people start from a very different set of assumptions, namely that everyone is deeply interested in everyone else
this makes simple polite disinterest a much more heinous act than the other norm would consider it to be
how can this be reconciled?
it can't