I think the treatment part is probably key. While you can't "catch" or "cure" bipolar or schizophrenia, there are medications available that can help manage them. They may not always work, but that's also true of cancer.Branindain said:
It's not taking the piss out of transgender people, it's taking the piss out of people that are so arrogant that they think they can make up any pronouns they want and force everyone to use them. That is not how language works and this is not how taxonomy works. It's childish attention seeking propped up by a dangerous culture of reinforcement that will back up anything.MarsAtlas said:
Yeah, neurodevelopmental disorder sounds like a much more accurate term. I have to roll my eyes when I find parents of autistic children online who are on the "quest for the cure", clearly they don't properly understand their child's condition yet and they're in for some disappointment, but I know they ain't gonna want to hear it from me.Eamar said:
'it' sounds incredibly dehumanizing to me. Even animals[footnote]Non-human animals before anyone gets snarky.[/footnote], if they've been domesticated, are rarely referred to as 'it'. I'm all for a gender neutral pronoun if it makes things less complicated and saves us from accidentally offending anyone, but not one that's already used for referencing objects.Fsyco said:Language is a democratic proccess, really. It's alive and changes as people use it. These people changing pronouns, however, can't decide on what to use instead. They can all agree on what not to use, but not what to use in it's place, and that's the real issue. Maybe we do need a new set of gender neutral pronouns (although I don't see why we can't just use 'it' >.>;but nobody can agree on what that new set actually should be.
How are they lumping transgendered people into any groups when transgendered people aren't even specifically mentioned?Amgeo said:
Unless you're making a web-comic that's intended to be funny, in which case it would be detrimental for a character to say something that sounds awkward and confusing for the typical reader. Sure after rereading it a second time and thinking about it second time they might get it, but you know what they say about dissecting a joke.nyysjan said:
It's because we aren't allowed to have any gray anymore. It's black or white. Everything is acceptable or nothing is acceptable. This is the exact same thing that happened in the white guy defense force comic. "Ermahgerd! He made fun of someone who's white? He must be making fun of everyone who is white and saying they're all like this!" Just change "someone who's white" to "someone who doesn't identify with traditional genders".KOMega said:
That actually sounds like the opposite of not caring.DaViller said:
It should matter, if you're using it as your example.Sir Thomas Sean Connery said:
Odd, since it didn't appear when I looked up their Tumblr before I made this post. However, I did find it elsewhere attributed to other people. So it really doesn't look legit at all.VanQ said:
No more than any other person, it's just taken for granted in most cases.DjinnFor said:
You mean regardless of ************'s preferred pronoun.Olas said:
If it's real, then it's an example.Zachary Amaranth said:
You used it as an example. It sure sounds like you don't care if your examples are real.Sir Thomas Sean Connery said:
I don't care a great deal whether that individual example is real because it isn't the entire focus of my attention as a result of other examples existing.Zachary Amaranth said:
