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Right-Wing Fans Ostracize [rightwing] Female VTuber [Excusing herself that] [She ws] Assigned Male At Birth (kotaku.com)
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VTuber Ember Paradox has come under fire from fellow right-leaning collaborators for 'lying' after her voice filter glitched during a livestream

had to edit that bigotted headline. Ember Paradox uses “she/her” when referring to herself.

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[–] 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Pretty sure the headline isnt bigoted OP. The person in questions uses both she/he and her/him pronouns, depending on persona. The chud is not openly trans as much as maintaining two differently gendered self identities at once.

Kotaku is doing their best:

I’m using she/her pronouns in this article based on Ember Paradox’s response. However, Ember Paradox stated later in the stream that they prefer to use male pronouns when not embracing their VTuber persona.

This may be an egg situation, but in either case they explicitly use he/him and she/her pronouns at the same time, so any of them should be fine to refer to the individual as a whole who has affirmed they use both.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    “They”

    uses both she/he and her/him pronouns

    This was the bigotry was alluding to. I am well aware of Ember identfies as a バ美肉, which is both. But thank you for confirming she doesn't identify as trans.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago*

    They would have been fine in general, but the person in question uses both sets of pronouns explicitly, so to me the article and its title are very respectful in using them as accurately as possible. They want to be called he/him or she/her, not they/them.

    I expect this is actually a case of a trans woman that has not come to terms with their identity, but until then, they have dual simultaneous pronouns in their two identifies. Using all of them is respectful, but also a mindfuck, so mistakes should be forgiven as inadvertent unless they are explicitly bigoted.

    Based on Kotaku's tone and forward statements about their gender, I lean very heavily into "not bigoted" in my reading of the article.

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