{"id":685,"date":"2025-05-31T16:44:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T13:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/?p=685"},"modified":"2025-05-31T16:44:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T13:44:49","slug":"685","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/?p=685","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted has-system-sans-serif-font-family\">Dunno if it's obvious from the fact I lean toward libertarianism, but my views on unconventional pronouns are purely practical. First and foremost, no one must force you to say anything. Say whatever you want. That being said, there are some guidelines that would make everyone's life a little bit easier.<br><br>Imagine talking to your female friend and telling her you've made this amazing new acquaintance at the gym: \"He's crazy-hot, approachable, and single!\" Your friend cancels all her plans, buys the gym membership, meets the two of you there... Only to realize that your crazy-hot guy is actually a woman who wanted to be referred to as \"he\/him.\" And you may think it's entirely your friend's fault for being such a bigoted fascist and having certain expectations. In reality, you've practically misinformed her.<br><br>While this example may be far-fetched, the following isn't: words like \"he\" or \"she\" or \"man\" or \"woman\" are primarily used to indicate sex, not the way someone likes to be referred to. If you wanna redefine these words, that's fine, but you have to make sure your listeners are aware of it. Otherwise, you are being a nuisance.<br><br>Once there's an understanding of who exactly you're talking about, you can use any pronouns whatsoever. Obviously, it's a good idea to maximize the comfort of the participants of a conversation and display respect. This usually implies referring to people using whatever pronouns they prefer.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dunno if it&#8217;s obvious from the fact I lean toward libertarianism, but my views on unconventional pronouns are purely practical. First and foremost, no one must force you to say anything. Say whatever you want. That being said, there are some guidelines that would make everyone&#8217;s life a little bit easier.Imagine talking to your female [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":686,"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}