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Old Aug 26, 2013, 11:25 PM
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Please do not tell me to "look" as I am reading your replies, and I don't need prompts to make me pay attention or get me to change my mind. I am well aware that saying "these are my pronouns" is simple. What you are not aware of that when I do explain my gender/lack there of and my pronouns, I am asked in chat "well, don't you have a penis?" and "Don't you LIKE being a girl, though?" When no one has any idea what I am or what I am not. And apparently, this is completely polite as no one stepped in to help me. The only one who did was someone who PMed me the same day and apologized for their FRIENDS behavior.

So yes, what is simple mathematics for you isn't so simple for me or people like me. I am told they, them, they're's is not appropriate pronouns (though they have been used forever, like in Shakespeare plays). I am told I am an impossibility, I need to be one or the other. Better still; I get told what to do by people who identify in the gender binary. Like right now.

All I was stating was that it is a bit ridiculous for anyone to assume gender based on icons and usernames. That is like me assuming your name because of your username. It's ridiculous, base, and annoying. And yet again, me, the ~weird~ one, has to educate people because apparently it is beyond them. Though I never find it difficult to ask "what are the pronouns you use?" As you said, it only takes a few moments.

As for my username; it's a song and a pun and has nothing to do with my age what so ever. My age is clearly stated in my profile.
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