#gendering
- when you get someone’s pronouns right, don’t pat yourself on the back.
- when you get them wrong, don’t give a list of excuses. just say sorry, correct yourself, and move on! trust me, handling it this way is better for everyone.
- if someone gets your family member/friend’s pronouns wrong, only correct them if it’s a safe environment.
- people get frustrated when they are constantly misgendered. don’t blame trans people for being upset about this, especially if you’re the one who misgendered them.
- correcting people when they misgender you can be tiring. just because someone doesn’t correct you, doesn’t mean you’re right or that they don’t mind.
- people introduce their pronouns in different ways. sometimes it’s direct, like saying your name and pronouns. other times it’s through conversation, implying, or correcting. if you aren’t sure, ask when possible!
- nobody cares if the person was being mean to you. that doesn’t mean you can misgender them. use peoples pronouns.
THESE ARE SO IMPORTANT
When you are corrected, don’t take it as an attack. It is a reminder, the person is helping you and leading you in the right direction gently. Be thankful and move on.
if you work to stop gendering strangers, it becomes much easier to gender trans people right, cause you lose the sense of “facial hair = male” and “boobs = female” and stuff. when you see someone cute at walmart and think “dang he’s cute”, correct yourself to “dang they’re cute”, it’s a small thing but correcting yourself without feedback or backlash or anything does become habit and it increases the ease in which you can change pronouns for people who ask because you aren’t entrenched in gender binaries and stuff.
until we open the box, the cat has all the genders simultaneously
“the gender of all genders that aren’t gendered in terms of themselves”
The number of genders is any set of axioms from which some or all axioms can be used in conjunction to logically derive gender.
We can either know where the genders are or how fast they’re moving but never both
we can either know how many genders there are or what a gender is but never both
the number of genders is pi
there are 3.6 genders; not great, not terrible
Believing in ℵ ₀ genders goes back to believing genders are quantized, but countably infinite
numbers
no genders, got it.
There are ℵ ₀ genders
People who believe that gender is finite and boundless vs. people who believe gender is infinite and bounded
people who believe that the number of genders is countable vs. uncountable, knowable vs. unknowable,
people who believe genders are contiguous and people who believe genders are quantized
people who believe the number of genders is imaginary and people who believe the number of genders is complex
There are zero or fewer genders
there are zero or more genders
There is only one gender: people who miscount the number of genders.
well, exactly.
This is “there are no genders” erasure
ah yes the two genders: there are only two genders / there are more than two genders
The act of observing a gender alters it. Genders greater than zero now exist in a different capacity than before this post. This, the purest gender exists as gender = 0.
if you set a breakpoint to observe it, gender won’t occur any longer.
Sets of children’s lit from Juniper Books. DJL respects the gender neutrality of the tortoise; the unspoken gendering of the other two sets, not so much.
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After several decades of hemming and hawing in the face of the evidence that movies about female heroes and/or starring more than one woman can be financially successful, I suspect that Wonder Woman finally was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Before Wondy, we had the moderately successful Ghostbusters: Answer the Call; coming next year, we will be #blessed by Ocean’s Eight. However, the thing about the latter two films, both reboots of previously all-male franchises, is that they are movies where the gender of the protagonists is incidental. That’s why it’s possible to reboot them with women; there’s no reason a lady can’t bust a ghost or rob a casino as effectively as a dude.
But of course Hollywood can never get it quite right, and now The Powers That Be have predictably got ahead of themselves by confusing incidental and intentional gendering in lady-led reboots.
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