It keeps looking at us precious.
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Korean, having to know the person's age, social status, relationship and all just to call someone.
I have friends who use it. It feels kind of weird and wrong for me as if I'm objectiving them but if that's what they want it's what they get.
Yeah I'd be quite uncomfortable with calling anyone "it". I'll gladly use they/them, I'd be down to learn some neopronouns, but calling someone "it" is something I'd rather avoid. Even if someone likes "it" pronouns, I'd still feel incredibly weird doing so in public. Calling people an "it" is often done here to mock androgynous people. It feels dehumanizing. If I were to do so in public, it would mean they people around me (who don't know the other person's preference) would probably assume I'm doing so to mock them.
I admit I use "they" when they're not around and luckily it rarely happens that I need to use their pronouns when I'm out with them.
I have friends who use "it". It feels kind of weird and wrong for me as if I'm objectifying it but if that's what it wants it's what it gets.
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Great job, what would I ever do without you?
To me "it" dehumanises someone doen to an object.
No joke: in my native German dialect, women are grammatically neutral.
My then gf was completely shocked when visiting my birth region for the first time.
It still married me, though! :-)
You know what’s weird? I’ve caught myself saying “it” about people a few times passively lately and then correcting myself and wondering where the fuck that came from
I use 'it' to describe ME :3
I have "it" in my Discord description, along with cpt.
In Chinese, verbally the world for he, she, and it are all the same pronunciation. It is only differentiated in writing.
Don't forget the word 祂 for divine beings as the 4th
Going to randomly call people 祂 to fuck with them.
The written form was neutral until Western influence inspired the creation of a female version, replacing the first radical "person" with "woman".
I think some Chinese forums use "TA" (as in the 2 English letters) to be gender neutral
Ta?
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