#these-like the nouns- will not be gendered

[sombraglaze]

thanks for the tag!! ✨

I didn't know I was trans back when I made the username, my actual name made me uncomfortable (it was dysphoria obviously, but I didn't know anything about transness at all so I didn't put 2 and 2 together), I wanted a replacement for my deadname basically, because I wanted to make friends online and I wanted them to be able to use something other than my actual name at the time. That's why it's "Sombra Glaze" it's literally meant to look like "first-name last-name" lol

I picked Sombra because it seemed kind of gender neutral to me (in mlp:fim it's used for a male character, in Overwatch it's used for a woman) and having my gender be ambiguous made me feel good for some reason, I had never heard of gender euphoria before. Even after I figured out I'm a woman the name still works because Sombra is a feminine noun in Spanish so it feels somewhere between femme and neutral, which is perfect for me.

And I picked Glaze because one of my favorite brony songs back when I was an edgy kid was Awoken by H8 Seed and WoodenToaster, and it turns out that WoodenToaster also goes by Glaze, so I just.. stole that part of his username LMFAO because why not I guess, it didn't feel gendered to me so it didn't give me any dysphoria and I thought it was really cool, didn't even bother to look up what the word Glaze meant, I just yoinked it.

So yeah, the name basically comes from me being a brony and a huge egg (￣▽￣*)ゞ goofy ass name, I'm still kind of fond of it tho.

no pressure tags! @mpicabo @bliamapriori @wrendeavore @moth-of-many-names

Tag game🎉

Tag your moots and ask them where they got the idea for their tumblr accounts name!

For my name it was a nickname I was giving back in middleschool! One of our teacher had a system where we worked with 'wifi' eachtime we talked in class we lost a bar of the "wifi" (was a weird joke and we never held count on that) All the kids usually joked if they needed 'wifi' , they would borrow mine if they wanted to talk more. (I was incredibly shy in middle school, I only talked to like 3 people at school;^;)

They called me Ms. Wifi because of that. I just thought it would be funny if I put 'miss' instead of 'ms' because of my terrible actual wifi connection I have at home lol.

That's my story! Now moots, only if you guys want to, tell us your story.

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[quidam-sirenae]

Also a picture of my Minecraft conlang. There is no first person plural (this was made for a singleplayer world) and the only future verb tense is future perfect. Passive is nearly oblique at this point but there is a fully formed subjunctive. There is also a differentiation between /ɔ/ and /o/. However there is no differentiation between /d/ and /ɾ/ (there is no /r/). /l/ does not exist.

[iamfuckingsorry]

So I've recently realized that murderbot's been translated into my native language and it's apparently a he in the translation (which admittedly makes sense, because it's a heavily gendered language and 1. gender-neutral language doesn't really exist in general and 2. "bot" and all the related words - I believe they use "droid" for mb in the translation - are grammatically masculine).

It made me curious how it's been handled in other translations though!

*e.g. being referred to by multiple gendered nouns/pronouns depending on the context, like both "bot" (masculine) and "machine" (feminine).

[redjennies]

honestly as someone whose whole body went "!!!" the first time i saw the word "genderqueer" at thirteen, I do find the inclusion of "nouns" with pronouns extremely helpful for describing my gender (which can best described as "woman but a bit to the left.") because when i was in my early twenties and trying on the whole they/them agender identity like a pair of ill-fitting pants, nothing stroked me tail to head like having to listen to people trip over themselves in front of people i didn't even fucking know in order to gender-neutralize every word they used in regards to me. or worse, the horror of when someone I only sort of knew would start aggressively "correcting" my close friends when they called me a girl, like I haven't been having more in-depth conversations with my bestie about what I liked being called than some rando I met twice. honestly, the whole thing felt so rigid back then that I finally decided I'd rather just drop the whole nonbinary thing entirely rather than deal with it.

but like, she/they pronouns with feminine nouns (or masculine nouns, if you're feeling cheeky)? fuck yeah, that's all anyone needs to fucking know. if someone only refers to me with she/her and feminine nouns, I'm personally fine with that and even prefer that around certain people because it ain't any of their fucking business. the part of me that is they/them is only for people who can use it naturally in a sentence without drawing unnecessary attention to it.

[kirstielol]

At the part of learning German where I gotta start memorizing the genders of inanimate objects 🥲

[hylianengineer]

Friendly notification that I am playing around with my pronouns again. In addition to they/them and she/her, you are now invited to call me xe/xir, ze/zir, fae/faer, or any other neopronouns you can think of.

Basically, my pronouns are now anything except he/him. I will probably be updating this based on how this experiment goes.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Update: I have decided I love being called neopronouns now, and I'm adding the addendum that the weirder a pronoun set is, the more fun I'll probably consider it. Also, feel free to mix and match them, that's also fun!

[cube-cumb3r]

i hope RTD isn't too committed to respecting trans people because there is nothing I want more than the specials being really weird about fourteens gender

[ramenheim]

About prev reblogs: I have never seen TME used to complain about & demarcate cis men's behaviours.

Despite the term ostensibly lumping together *almost any gender configuration that isn't binarily trans woman*, the only times it's used recently is to complain about (trans) ppl that get lumped in with cis women (as intersex ppl trans or otherwise are *never* factored into this dichotomy anyways), including cis women themselves.

I have never once seen it used to delineate trans women from cis men, even as it gets used to delineate cis women's experiences from trans women's experiences. I have only seen /haphazard/ acknowledgement of non-binary experiences included in TMA, but only really as an afterthought or when it's framed as the precursor to 'fully realizing trans womanhood'. I've only seen intersex folks brought up if they elect to use the terms TME/TMA for themselves, with bizarro interrogations into 'how' they were raised/had their genitals 'corrected' only once they individually disagreed with the terminology or had a confounding opinion in a public discussion.

It is regularly used to delineate trans men from trans women; but its users almost uniformly deride any attempt by trans men to coin a term to describe their own unique combinatory transphobia that isn't TME; again despite TME literally just supposing to mean 'transmisogyny-exempt'.... so why would it be used to discuss trans men's *unique* experiences with hatred directed at the fact that they either "are/aren't (real) men" by anyone who wants them to suffer?

It's been *changed* into hastily recycled AGAB terminology bc of wider recognition of the flaws with /that/ but without the driving flaws of that **tool for analysis** ever being fully addressed; and therefore has gotten subsumed into the 'new euphemism' for the Innie vs Outie false dichotomy as its usage became more widespread.

I think it still is a useful discussion tool ONLY when it's viewed *as a tool* and not some inherent marker of identity. It is DEFINITELY just bigotry when used as a NOUN that has negative behaviours ascribed to it, esp in the context of complaining about trans men** as a whole homogenized group, instead of highlighting individual behaviours/belief systems for the harm they contribute to against TMA trans/nb ppl.

Young queers really need to stop swallowing the tradcath radfem juice of "Women Pure + Good & Men Bad + Evil" [**that tumblr feminism has always had a problem with] and acting like you aren't being a transphobic shitheel by adding the word Trans in front of it-- & This is ESPECIALLY a problem when non-trans "Allies" do this, as it sets up trans women for failure whenever they make a mistake/can be reframed as 'being a cause-traitor' since women are punished more harshly for any percieved failure of Righteousness, AND allows them further to enact their unbridled transphobia onto trans men (& enbys/genderqweirdos) and pass it off as 'being an ally to trans women'..... despite them just being extremely transphobic (+ misogynistic + homphobic + intersexist) & then hiding behind """"TMAs"""" as a negative PR meatshield.

TL;DR if you are using TME to mean (nc)AFAB in vent posts, just have the guts to fucking use that as the word & see how it reads then.

(**since transmasc & transfem do not imply either a 'starting' or 'finalized' gender state; they are personal adjectives in and of themselves. Please do not warp them into new innie vs outie binary divides).

[**see related: the raw ass treatment of 'AMAB enbys' on here and in similar online/irl "feminist" environments. (Which was one of the driving factors behind the original TMA/TME coinage & is where I still find useful inter-trans discussions utilizing it as a term; importantly I don't think the term should stop being used altogether!!)]

[coquelicoq]

the thing about the prescriptive grammar rules of written french from my perspective as a non-fluent reader is that they are very helpful to me in figuring out what a sentence means (e.g., if a participle does or does not end in -e or -s, it gives me an important and sometimes essential clue as to which noun the participle is related to). but the other, equally relevant thing about the prescriptive grammar rules of written french from my perspective as a non-fluent reader is that there are a lot of them and i do not always know what they are. lol.

[vsyrworld]

do you know what funny about language? the colonial that now are mostly have lot of LGBTQ people, invented a concept of gender pronouns; his her him she he, like their ancestor is the one who make this gender norms and now people are refuse to be called he and she-- i find it hillarous as a native who've been learning with all gramatical gender. in bahasa/melayu/and singlish i just speak aku kamu dia, cewe cowo, no gender pronoun or grammatical gender what ever is that😭. who's started that gender thing😭

[sharpasanaro]

what’s my gender? uh, I dunno, some sorta mix between Skateboard Dudebro, Midwestern Mom, and Extra Masc Sporty Lesbian. hope this helps!

[bandtrees]

THIS ALEXANDRIAS GENESIS MOTHERFUCKER IS LEADING MY THEY ON I KNOW IT

[explainslowly]

I've been contemplating lately whether I should become one of those ppl who has different pronouns in English vs native/spoken language

[theophagie]

Destati overall is associated with the heart and the light vs darkness conflict, but considering that its lyrics talk about remembering and taking something back and that the choir is addressing a female/feminine entity, I wonder if it could be about Kairi as well, at least in some roundabout way (though admittedly luce/light in italian is a feminine noun to begin with too)

[primeministerofantarctica]

full disclosure i am a native english speaker but for native speakers of heavily gendered languages like french or spanish, what's your opinion on people attempting to learn a more ""gender neutral"" version of the language instead of the standardized version