-why pronouns are gendered-
So, let’s say you’re walking down the street. A big person, obviously muscular, with a beard dressed in men’s clothes comes up to you. Your brain automatically will call him a he, because of his gender expression.
You can not deny that you would see that man, as a man. If you do, you are lying.
Pronouns are something we use in place of a name for someone, and imply that persons gender. If you were writing a book and used he for 1 woman character and she for another woman character, its going to be hard to read and hard to understand.
There are languages where everything is gendered, even nouns, and there is no neutral pronoun. Their grammar rules and language rules should be respected
If you look up the definition of he, you will get a man or a boy. She, a woman of a girl. They, for a group of people or person of unspecified gender. These are the three English pronouns we use.
If you deny that pronouns are gendered, you are just dismissing definitions of words and you sound stupid. Almost all of society will say pronouns are gendered, and 1,000 people on twitter saying they aren’t won’t change anything.
Language developed to make it easier to speak to people. It’s going to be very hard to understand others if you use he for a woman, then she for another woman, then she for a Man. No one will know who you’re referring too.
If you are a woman and get dysphoric over she her pronouns, maybe you aren’t a woman. If you just want to use pronouns because they sound cool, you’re harming trans people.
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