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To clarify, when I said, 'you don't refer to people by it', it wasn't so much a descriptive statement as a moral one. As in, you should not refer to (adult) people by 'it'. Because indeed it dehumanizes.
View original postjust kind of pointing out the fact that we call people "It" all the time. I had one specific example that was applied to the two different mindsets of the speaker. One was used out of ambiguity, while the other was to dehumanize. The difference was the intent of the speaker.
To clarify, when I said, 'you don't refer to people by it', it wasn't so much a descriptive statement as a moral one. As in, you should not refer to (adult) people by 'it'. Because indeed it dehumanizes.
Why the adult qualifier? Is the age of the individual a factor in whether one is "humanized" or not?
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Aran'gar and the trans issue.
- 13/11/2018 12:25:48 AM
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I think for once you were unfairly called out on this based on your "history"
- 13/11/2018 01:26:41 AM
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Re: I think for once you were unfairly called out on this based on your "history"
- 13/11/2018 02:40:05 AM
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I don't know what's so hard to understand about this. You don't refer to people by 'it'.
- 13/11/2018 08:09:34 AM
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People are refered to by "it" all the time....
- 13/11/2018 05:26:33 PM
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Your second example rather proves my point, don't you think?
- 13/11/2018 07:50:39 PM
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I'm not really commenting on Cannoli's post....
- 13/11/2018 09:20:13 PM
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Okay, sure.
- 13/11/2018 11:26:58 PM
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Interesting....
- 13/11/2018 11:36:43 PM
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Aran'gar does not, and doesn't have to represent, trangender people for your usage to be wrong
- 13/11/2018 03:21:42 PM
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So?