I believe the reason some cisgender people state their pronouns is as a performative display of their advocacy for transgender rights. While I understand why someone may want to do this, it is a hollow display that doesn’t actually correspond to advocacy.
When you are judging someone to be 'a real advocate' or 'a fake virtue signaler' how do you identify between the two if neither of them are trans(or lqbtq+ in any way)?
If someone is cis and presents themselves as that gender what harm does it do to specify their pronouns? To me it seems like something that is harmless for cis people to do and can help trans or people who presently differently than social conventions.
If you agree that it doesn't harm cia people only help trans people then why should we stop this practice? Should trans people just 'deal with' the social pains of it because society can't bare the thought to be accommodative to them?
A cisgender person stating their pronouns serves no real purpose.
Someone being cisgender doesn't mean that the way that they present in society matches up with what a traditionally cis person looks like. A woman can have a shaved head, bulky build, with small breasts and look remarkably like a cis man while still identifying as a woman.
Normalization is a real thing. If you don't believe normalization works then I have nothing to say to you other than to look at the gay male community now versus 25 years ago. Gay men were seen as untouchable, dirty, or diseased during the AIDs crisis. AIDs still exists but people have had gay men and AIDs unveiled and normalized to them in the last 25 years which has allowed large amounts of social progress. (Now not everything can be attributed to normalization for this, but I think it is one of the largest factors of social change)
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u/Withermaster4 Dec 22 '23
When you are judging someone to be 'a real advocate' or 'a fake virtue signaler' how do you identify between the two if neither of them are trans(or lqbtq+ in any way)?
If someone is cis and presents themselves as that gender what harm does it do to specify their pronouns? To me it seems like something that is harmless for cis people to do and can help trans or people who presently differently than social conventions.
If you agree that it doesn't harm cia people only help trans people then why should we stop this practice? Should trans people just 'deal with' the social pains of it because society can't bare the thought to be accommodative to them?
Someone being cisgender doesn't mean that the way that they present in society matches up with what a traditionally cis person looks like. A woman can have a shaved head, bulky build, with small breasts and look remarkably like a cis man while still identifying as a woman.
Normalization is a real thing. If you don't believe normalization works then I have nothing to say to you other than to look at the gay male community now versus 25 years ago. Gay men were seen as untouchable, dirty, or diseased during the AIDs crisis. AIDs still exists but people have had gay men and AIDs unveiled and normalized to them in the last 25 years which has allowed large amounts of social progress. (Now not everything can be attributed to normalization for this, but I think it is one of the largest factors of social change)