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n00bnouns (quokk.au)
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Alt text: A tweet from The Tennessee Holler featuring a video snippet of the Wyoming legislature where a speaker is corrected for using "Madam chairman" and subsequently challenges the board by referencing their vote against compelled speech regarding pronouns.
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[–] 32 points 7 months ago (7 children)

And why did they waste legislative time on this? Before they made a bill you could not be compelled to use someone's preferred pronouns due to first amendment protections. After the bill you still cannot be compelled, but now there is a specific Wyoming law that doesn't change anything.

So they wasted state time and resources to make a bill just to be mean towards trans people. They didn't solve any real issues facing anybody in the state.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    For some reason, anti-trans people are fucking terrified of the government forcing them to use someone's preferred pronouns. This occupies a lot of their thinking, and they put a lot of effort into making sure -- at multiple levels -- that this could never happen. (And, if you ask them, most of them are convinced that there are many places in the world where it's already happening.)

    I really don't get it. Even if it were somehow true, how bad is it, really, to have to use someone's preferred pronouns? Is that really such a big deal? Would it really hurt them so much to do that?

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    The problem you're having is that your looking for a logical answer without considering the mindset of the other side.

    They aren’t trying to build a reason based/lawful way to defend themselves.

    They are using bad faith and/or weaponised ignorance to be cruel dicks, that's the point.

    They can then build on top of this to be even greater dicks to a larger variety of people.

    There are potentially other motivations in the bigger picture, but at this level it's just "how can i weaponise my truly astonishing levels of crippling insecurity to hurt the 'other'" because that's how they pretend they have control/power enough to enjoy life.

    They're the self-appointed Gender HOA, giving out citations because they have nothing else in their life.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Defending free speech by drawing lines in the sand. It's basically legislating morality and then it's a sock drawer of crazy imo. That's about where the US is right now. Just a small corner of the sock drawer is chaos right now but it's getting worse every time that drawer jiggles.

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