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cats-in-the-clouds · 2 years ago

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another day of me finding absolutely no help as to the question of whether or not you as a catholic should call a trans-identified person by the pronouns they say they wanna be called by or if you should refrain from encouraging their delusion with their gender in any way

#everyone’s like ‘just use the name they wanna be called! bc what’s really in a name? anyone can have multiple names’#and i’m like ok sure sounds great no problem #but then everyone’s like ‘when it comes to using pronouns/honorifics/simple words such as man or woman uhhhhhhh #well we advise that you simply avoid the subject ;)’#HOW ON EARTH IS THAT HELPFUL if you’re gonna have any sort of conversation with that person ever #if you’re ever gonna refer to them in the third person in polite society in front of other people who might tear you to shreds #for not using the person’s preferred pronouns bc they’re all liberal-biased #like. this advice falls apart so fast the moment the conversation is more than just you and the person in question alone #you could use the same argument and say call them what they wanna be called to demonstrate your respect for them as a person #but then it’s like. proper names don’t really matter but pronouns specifically indicate gender in our language.#they mean something and we all know and understand it. it is socially understood. it just is #there is no firm case to argue otherwise when it comes to linguistic discussions. you are just confusing people by muddying it #so then that absolutely counts as encouraging gender delusion doesn’t it #man.#as someone who’s escaped the gender identity cult i have experience with switching pronouns and language on a dime #so it’s not like it’s difficult for me to do it in either case i’ll use dumb fake language if i have to i can do it #but. should i have to????? idk man..;;;#avoiding the subject altogether usually would have to mean avoiding the PERSON altogether #or like. refusing to acknowledge their existence outside of direct communication with them #does that not feel insanely disrespectful??? far more than either of the other options???#we cannot morally afford to simply ignore this kind of question and we cannot function in society that way

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