{"id":86785,"date":"2024-01-12T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86785"},"modified":"2024-01-10T18:47:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T00:47:11","slug":"pronouns-ass-kicked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86785","title":{"rendered":"Pronouns:  Ass\/Kicked"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have a few transgender people in y social circle.  All of them did their transitions, for whatever reason, as adults.  I treat them with respect.  They (mostly) reciprocate &#8211; I&#8217;ve had no ugly little moments over pronouns.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because that&#8217;s kinda the point &#8211; voluntary human interaction requires some degree of mutual respect, as opposed to using every interaction as an excuse to try to squeedge a publicly-airable grievance out onto social media &#8211; something that might be equally well-termed &#8220;narcissism&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And some of the LGB crowd is seeing it the same way.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gay black guy comments on videos of Trans people complaining about being &#8220;misgendered&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Reacting to Woke Trans People Meltdown After Getting Misgendered\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hy_C9pFTylQ?start=1&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And I think he nails it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of many highlights:  &#8220;If you&#8217;ve been to 25 restaurants and everyone&#8217;s calling you &#8220;Sir&#8217;, there&#8217;s a  <em>theme <\/em>and <em>consensus<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, as Camille Paglia points out, it&#8217;s not all laughs and games:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lesson from History: Transgender Mania is Sign of Cultural Collapse - Camille Paglia\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I8BRdwgPChQ?start=1&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a few transgender people in y social circle. All of them did their transitions, for whatever reason, as adults. I treat them with respect. They (mostly) reciprocate &#8211; I&#8217;ve had no ugly little moments over pronouns. Because that&#8217;s kinda the point &#8211; voluntary human interaction requires some degree of mutual respect, as opposed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,392],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-whats-good-for-the-goose-is-good-for-the-gender"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86785"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86797,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86785\/revisions\/86797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}