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Pronouns in your bio reduce trust.
Here's why:
There are natural and unnatural human behaviors that have evolved over the millennia.
We are creatures built to handle and survive complexity in our environments by simplifying what we can trust.
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There are natural and unnatural human behaviors that have evolved over the millennia.
We are creatures built to handle and survive complexity in our environments by simplifying what we can trust.
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The issue with pronouns isn't just that it's a new socially constructed fad, but that it's a new dimension of complexity to people that wasn't there before.
Advocates even have unironically said "you can remember hundreds of pokemon but can't remember these couple dozen?"
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Advocates even have unironically said "you can remember hundreds of pokemon but can't remember these couple dozen?"
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Complexity (chaos) is antithetical to trust (order) because trust grows when you don't have to think about the source in question, be it an object or person.
When you add a requirement to interaction involving you, you deprecate yourself by breaking others' cognitive scripts.
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When you add a requirement to interaction involving you, you deprecate yourself by breaking others' cognitive scripts.
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This is catastrophic for candid communication if any happens at all, and most humans will turn and run away from you.
That it attracts peers doing the same online is an anomaly of social signalling that doesn't manifest offline.
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That it attracts peers doing the same online is an anomaly of social signalling that doesn't manifest offline.
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Put them on a resume and you won't be hired.
Put them on your clothing and nobody will look at you.
You're not making life easier by putting them out there, you're adding instructions with unclear consequences for those who make a mistake.
People get FIRED for that mistake.
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Put them on your clothing and nobody will look at you.
You're not making life easier by putting them out there, you're adding instructions with unclear consequences for those who make a mistake.
People get FIRED for that mistake.
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So don't think support or lack of backlash is a sign you're moving the correct way.
Nobody who isn't on the spectrum will tell you to stop. Because we're afraid of you. You're even afraid of each other. And those in the game are trying to make rules even harder.
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Nobody who isn't on the spectrum will tell you to stop. Because we're afraid of you. You're even afraid of each other. And those in the game are trying to make rules even harder.
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So remove pronouns and stop.
The illusion is that it gives you power. The reality reduces mental health.
The very thin and already tearing social fabric is beginning to unravel, and pronouns will push friends and lovers present or future away and leave you alone in the dark.
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The illusion is that it gives you power. The reality reduces mental health.
The very thin and already tearing social fabric is beginning to unravel, and pronouns will push friends and lovers present or future away and leave you alone in the dark.
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