• Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nz
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    9 days ago

    They/them, which is a gender neutral pronoun, would be an appropriate way to refer to drag, if there weren’t any pronouns that refer specifically to dragon riders. But since there are, they/them is about as appropriate for drag as it is for an average man or woman. Drag thinks you’ve misunderstood the they/them pronoun. It doesn’t refer specifically to nonbinary people, it refers to any group or person lacking specified gender. Drag is not lacking specified gender, drag’s gender is very specified.

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      8 days ago

      You can refer to men or women as they, as you are not specifying a gender with the world “they”

      So you are making up grammar rules, this has nothing to do with gender. Bye.

      • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nz
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        8 days ago

        So you’re saying that your reluctance to use drag/dragself pronouns is equal to your reluctance to use she and he pronouns, and you start an argument with anyone who uses a he or a she pronoun too?

        Okay, thanks. If you’re not treating drag any differently than other people, then drag feels okay. Sorry for assuming that you were singling drag out.