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    Please stop using joke pronouns

    50 points is a ban. Excuse me for taking a pivotal element of my well-being seriously. Hi, I'm mildly retarded. You're irritating. Also please don't misuse "political correctness". Aaaand forking thread. EDIT: ... the option seems to have vanished. Is it missing for anyone else, too?
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    Please stop using joke pronouns

    Right. If this element were eliminated, absolutely nothing about you would change. My experience shows otherwise. You missed the point. We live in a patriarchal society today; gender roles still exist today. They are slowly disappearing, but they are still there. It is to a lot of people...
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    Please stop using joke pronouns

    Connotations and denotations of words change over time. With trans* awareness rising, it is important to exemplify the difference, particularly as not everybody knows the difference between someone who is trans gender or trans sexual. It's completely unnecessary and it does cause a lot of pain...
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    Please stop using joke pronouns

    It is an unfortunate limitation of what we can actually do, yes. It doesn't change that male and female are used to refer to sex. That is why they are trans sexual and not just "female" (instead of "male-to-female"). ... yes. Yes it is. This is why it's such a huge problem. Surprise, how a...
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    Please stop using joke pronouns

    I think you just answered yourself here. You can't possibly believe this? Gender roles and language are societal constructs.
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    Please stop using joke pronouns

    Male and female are biological sexes, not identity quantifiers. "I am male (adjective)" is not the same as "I am a man (noun)". While we are raised to equate male-ness to masculinity (and female-ness to femininity), this is something we simply need to transcend.
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    Please stop using joke pronouns

    Is it honestly that difficult to use what people feel comfortable with?
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    Please stop using joke pronouns

    How would this solve anything? There are people who identify as a specific gender and people who don't. Put the pronouns you accept. This is not hard.
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    Please stop using joke pronouns

    "Old method" was a gender field, not a pronoun field. Also, I really dislike being called "it" so.
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    Please stop using joke pronouns

    Not particularly. Again, there is a default "any" option, though.
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    Please stop using joke pronouns

    There is an "any" option. It is a pronoun field, not a gender field. Incidentally, male/female are sexes, not genders.
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    Please stop using joke pronouns

    Preferably not. Unless you actually want people going she-cat, her-cat, and hers-cat at you. Otherwise, it's misusing the pronoun field.
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