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[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Your wording is inarticulate and bad. You should feel bad about it.

HOWEVER, you are right that it's a silly argument, the people who hate pronouns don't hate the effort they have to make to call someone by a prefered combinations of sounds to more accurately represent their identity, those people hate using "preferred pronouns" because they hate people who don't conform to some imagined sense of societal authority and isolated standards of "normalcy" and would completely overhaul their own language if it meant preserving their own status-quo perceptions of a stable and immutable society.

Combine that with the very basic, childlike emotional tantrum that is a segment of society that sees a marginalized group getting special treatment and literally feeling jealous that they're not also getting special treatment for "doing nothing" and you have our current situation where the wealthy, donor-class has taken over American society and robbed our treasuries and coffers to make themselves richer and more powerful and successfully distracted our stupidest and most petty segment of society into thinking the problem is other struggling people.