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Are you worse than a fed? (cdn.discordapp.com)

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[-] Llituro@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This doesn't sit right with me. Les feinberg was very much not someone who really identified with the gender binary construction. Sie used sie/hir pronouns for instance and was AFAB. Idk, this just feels wrong here actually?

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 37 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think it's very possible that Feinberg went through several phases. Eggs don't crack then suddenly everything is figured out.

[-] Llituro@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago

it is possible that my judgement is clouded by a blinding hatred of the FBI

[-] h3doublehockeysticks@hexbear.net 37 points 2 years ago

For me, pronouns are always placed within context. I am female-bodied, I am a butch lesbian, a transgender lesbian—referring to me as "she/her" is appropriate, particularly in a non-trans setting in which referring to me as "he" would appear to resolve the social contradiction between my birth sex and gender expression and render my transgender expression invisible. I like the gender neutral pronoun "ze/hir" because it makes it impossible to hold on to gender/sex/sexuality assumptions about a person you're about to meet or you've just met. And in an all trans setting, referring to me as "he/him" honors my gender expression in the same way that referring to my sister drag queens as "she/her" does.