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burinazar · 1 year ago

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i love Bel Thorne so much actually

earlier i was in the comments section of a fic featuring it where the author had noted its pronouns in the A/N

and there were so many people in the comments basically saying 'even if i don't understand it i'll treat people who prefer this set of pronouns with respect and address those individuals with it/its', essentially because Bel had made them consider this

whereas elsewhere even in spaces that are explicitly supposed to be accepting of Gender Things Going On you see people who are perfectly fine with all sorts of other neopronoun sets being extremely rude and self righteous about this one

#folks will with no apparent self awarenss wholesale replicate the 'i won't use they/them because to ME it means i'm calling you plural ppl'#with 'i won't use it/its because to ME it means i'm insulting you'#Bel Thorne #oh. ur reminder ebil uses it/its/she/her #she/her is fine! seriously fine.#but if you do sometimes acknowledge my other set ilu a lot #anyway i know LMB was just Doing Whatever and maybe wasn't the most informed but #i literally can't think of other positively framed human characters in popular fiction who use it/its #so the idea of someone benignly fixing Bel to have the 'right pronouns' and they/theming it in a fic and erasing that blip of rep is sad #(i've never seen anyone do so but the author was basically saying why they personally wouldn't. which i appreciated)#(and i've definitely seen many people imply that the 'right thing' for LMB to do would have been using they/them. ;; )#like. i understand the instinct and discomfort. but. please...let us keep... Our O n l y Rep #That One OC Of Mine uses its/he btw. you dont want that thing as rep though

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