• leap123@lemmy.world
    109·
    1 year ago

    So if you don’t know, Kevin Afghani, the new voice actor for Mario and Luigi…

    [insert drumroll sounds]

    …has he/him in his Twitter bio.

    Yeah that’s it. It’s not that the voice actor uses some kind of pronouns that may trigger people like they/them, xe/xim, etc. It’s that the voice actor is a cisgender male who uses he/him like any other normal male human and nothing else. SwitchPlayed is literally whining about nothing.

  • moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    67·
    1 year ago

    saying that yer afraid of pronouns because trans people use them is like saying yer afraid of cereal because some people eat raisin bran and you eat frosted flakes

  • Rose@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    58·
    1 year ago

    no pronoun people in my nintendo my

    Transphobes eVolved from one braincell collectively to two, and thats terrifying

  • pancakesyrupyum@kbin.social
    57·
    1 year ago

    So I don’t know what “Mario is pronouns now” means, and I don’t want to feed a Search Engine to figure it out. Sounds like I don’t need to know!

  • SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz
    53·
    1 year ago

    Just start misgendering people who screech about hating pronouns.

    “Hey, now! Leave Brian alone! She’s just voicing her opinion! Don’t attack her! She doesn’t deserve all the hate just for that!”

    • Jank@literature.cafe
      14·
      1 year ago

      I like to give them diminutive nicknames. Bill is now Wittle Biwwy. You don’t get to choose what we call you, asshole.

        • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
          13·
          1 year ago

          Yeah, most folks who claim to be full on Gender Abolitionists are really just using that guise to cover for being TERFs, as in “Trans people shouldn’t be recognized because abolish gender!”

          • ResistentialismEnglish
            8·
            1 year ago

            As a straight, white, born male, I never understand how people can get so upset about a stranger, who means nothing to them, just because they use different pronouns.

            Like, you’re gonna be dead within the next 50 years. Why do you care so much about someone you’ll forget in less than a day? Why belittle them just because they want to be happy in themselves?

            I can understand it if you were in a serious relationship with someone, and they realised they wanted to be a different gender. Especially if you’re fully straight. Then they became a man or woman, I’m sure it’d be very hard to cope with. From both people. But in the context of people that have absolutely no impact on you? Why do you care so much?

            We’re all on a dead rock floating through space, with the only guarantee in life being death. Fuck off. Calm down. Have a pint. It’s ain’t that deep.

            • SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz
              5·
              1 year ago

              I’ve heard people say “I’m worried for their health!” or “They’re hurting / destroying their body!” or shit nonsense.

              Yeah. People smoke, drink, do drugs, get tattoos, and fucking whatever. I’d roundhouse-kick someone to the face if they decided that they get to have a say in what I do with my body. Fuck off and mind your own damn business.

              Even if you’re a “”“concerned family member”“”, you still don’t get a fucking say in how I choose to conduct my private life.

              I’m not trans, but holy shit, simply existing for those folks sounds goddamn exhausting. I’ll fight for & support their right to be left the fuck alone.

      • Eagle0600@yiffit.netEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        “My” is the first-person singular possessive pronoun in English. It fills the same role in a sentence as the pronouns “his” or “her” or “their”.

        “This is my/his/her/their thing.”

        I don’t see how it could be anything but a pronoun.

        • Ignacio@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          A pronoun replaces the noun. An adjective usually accompanies the noun, but it never replaces it.

          “My house is there”. I’ve never heard anyone saying “My is there”. But I did hear saying “Mine is there”.

          • Eagle0600@yiffit.netEnglish
            5·
            1 year ago

            That’s actually a matter of some contraversiality.

            You can’t actually just replace “my” in a sentence with an adjective and have it come out sounding natural. You can say “this is my house” but you can’t say “this is big house”. You’re missing a determiner, not an adjective.

            Possessive determiners are determiners which express possession. Some traditional grammars of English refer to them as possessive adjectives, though they do not have the same syntactic distribution as bona fide adjectives.[1]

            …

            The words my, your, etc. are sometimes classified, along with mine, yours etc., as possessive pronouns[3][4] or genitive pronouns, since they are the possessive (or genitive) forms of the ordinary personal pronouns I, you etc. However, unlike most other pronouns, they do not behave grammatically as stand-alone nouns but instead qualify another noun, as in my book (contrasted with that’s mine, for example, in which mine substitutes for a complete noun phrase such as my book). For that reason, other authors restrict the term “possessive pronoun” to the group of words mine, yours etc., which replaces directly a noun or noun phrase.[5][6] — Wikipedia, Possessive determiner

            This is further complicated by the fact that some words are sometimes true pronouns, and sometimes possessive determiners (his, her, its). In this way, it is difficult to fully separate the role of possessive determiner from the role of pronoun.

            But thank you for making me research it a bit more.