Their behaviour is weird and self-contradictory and drag is sick of it!
People constantly ask drag why drag uses neopronouns. And then when drag answers, they get mad about the answer. What gives!?
This person here seems nice, no shade on them, but look at the downvote numbers. Three other people upvoted their accepting comment, saying drag should be dragself. But it looks as though those same three people downvoted drag for explaining drag’s pronouns. So they hate drag for being drag, but they like platitudes and symbolic gestures of acceptance. It doesn’t make any sense.
Drag is wondering whether drag should even explain drag’s pronouns to anyone anymore. Last week, drag got banned from [email protected] for explaining drag’s pronouns. Someone asked, and drag answered their question. Drag didn’t agree with the situation and made a thread on yepowertrippinbastards - https://lemmy.nz/post/15935996 - and most of the people in the thread accused drag of changing the subject to dragself and demanding others use drag’s pronouns. Other people clog up the thread with demanding drag explain themselves, and it’s drag’s fault they asked.
Maybe drag should just ignore people who ask drag to explain drag’s pronouns, or tell them no. But surely the transphobes will get mad at that, too.
Drag thinks maybe the reason they get mad when drag evades, and mad when drag complies, is because they just want a socially acceptable excuse to be mad at drag. They want to manufacture conflict so they can attack the trans person and pretend it’s not about drag’s transness.
Yes, exactly. Drag’s pronoun does follow all the rules of English, just not the conventions. This should make drag’s pronouns very easy to understand with an open mind, and very hard with a closed mind, or with a mind that’s never really thought about grammar before. Drag would expect that a professional linguist would have absolutely zero trouble adapting. Drag’s pronouns anger people who are less literate, because they confuse conventions for rules. (Literacy is not a binary. Literacy is a scale, and most adults stop learning at a relatively low level of literacy).
When it comes to the anger that isn’t related to grammar, however - like lying that drag changed the subject in the thread, or lying that drag is demanding others use drag’s pronouns - that’s not confusion, that’s transphobia.