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   One Brave Peasant (seekingduck@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 09:52:34 JST One Brave Peasant

   • Sabrina✨

   @ryanhoulihan I'm not trying to be an ass, I'm just a rando that feels like asking, are you ok? We have to stick together and take care of each other.

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     DopeGhoti (dopeghoti@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 10:01:40 JST DopeGhoti

     • Sabrina✨

     @ryanhoulihan
     For the first question, would you accept "Yes, if they want to"? I'd hate to force anyone to play a sport in which ey had no interest. (:

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     ErosBlog Bacchus (erosblog@kinkyelephant.com)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 10:25:45 JST ErosBlog Bacchus

     • Sabrina✨

     @ryanhoulihan Had this exact conversation with a loved one just the other day. "I understand the logic of that, but it just doesn't feel true and correct to me, so I'm not going to do it."

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     Craig P (craigp@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 10:27:06 JST Craig P

     • Sabrina✨

     @ryanhoulihan Singular they/them is such a weird and revealing hill to die on.

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     Craig P (craigp@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 10:28:36 JST Craig P

     • Sabrina✨

     @ryanhoulihan My only question is what I call my they/them sister's kid.

     Like they/them is obvious, but what's the neutral of nephew/niece...

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     Alan Miller :verified_paw: 🇺🇦 (fencepost@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 10:28:41 JST Alan Miller :verified_paw: 🇺🇦

     • Sabrina✨

     @ryanhoulihan my only caveat on your first question would be "who defines Trans?" Is there a stage in transitioning before which it would be inappropriate? Is there a body that can manage and monitor that without medical info that is private to that person being disclosed and becoming a topic of discussion for every armchair wannabe coach?

     "Who's trans enough?" Is a really scary road to start going down and seems fraught with perils that I at least have no right or basis to weigh in on.

     Can the current hopefuls of the Russian men's weightlifting team decide they're trans, convince the military that it's true and that they shouldn't be conscripted to Ukraine and try to compete as neutrals in next year's Olympics? Only if they're taking antiandrogens? Who decides what the appropriate levels for those are? Do they need a history of therapy to prove that it's not just an attempt to avoid drone dropped grenades?

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     DopeGhoti (dopeghoti@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 10:29:02 JST DopeGhoti

     • Sabrina✨

     @ryanhoulihan
     After I did some light lexohistoorical reading, any time anyone plays this card around me ey will thenceforth only be addressed as 'thou', since 'you' is a plural form of address and using it in a singular context is obviously incorrect after all.

     A nonzero number of times, the lightbulb came on.

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     Craig P (craigp@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 10:30:13 JST Craig P

     • Sabrina✨

     @ryanhoulihan Oh! I think they'll like that too.

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     Woolfhound (woolfhound@woof.group)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 11:00:59 JST Woolfhound

     • DopeGhoti
     • Sabrina✨

     @ryanhoulihan @DopeGhoti I like to point out that in German the pronoun “sie” can mean she, they, or you, and literally no German speaker is confused by this, so are English speakers just dumb?

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     Woolfhound (woolfhound@woof.group)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 11:09:19 JST Woolfhound

     • DopeGhoti
     • Sabrina✨

     @ryanhoulihan @DopeGhoti I admit that singular they felt awkward to me when it became common, but I am old, si tha5s my problem. actually complaining about it is the 21st century version of “gay used to mean happy, dammit,” and omg who wants to be that person?

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     Dreaming of dad jazz. (michaelcoyote@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 13:45:04 JST Dreaming of dad jazz.

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     • Sabrina✨
     • Craig P

     @Craigp @ryanhoulihan oh cool that's new to me but I love it.. Got a gender neutral/nb for auntie/uncle?

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     Dreaming of dad jazz. (michaelcoyote@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 19:21:25 JST Dreaming of dad jazz.

     • Sabrina✨
     • Craig P

     @ryanhoulihan @Craigp lol no..