anxiety rules
anxiety rules
alt text: a tweet within a tweet. "coworker asked me my pronouns and I said 'they/them but I'm at work right now so it's whatever' and then she came up to me later and said 'this is you'" (showing a tweet that says) i'm probably nonbinary but i have a job so idrc about that rn
Unfortunately work me will say whatever my coworker needs to hear to get quick, accurate replies, save anything prejudice or cruel. Did my agnostic ass happily discuss dyeing Easter eggs with an old white dude who Teamsed me "happy Easter if that's even acceptable anymore"? Praise your white American Jesus you know I did.
Easter is not inherently a christian holiday goddammit. At least not in its popular celebration. Last I checked Jesus didn't pop eggs from his butt when he resurrected (that we know of) and the preachings of the Easter Bunny are unfortunately not canon in Catholicism.
To complain about "religious persecution" of profoundly pagan (if not outright heretical depending on who you ask) traditions is... certainly an interesting exercise in religious cognitive dissonance.
Neither is Xmas. Both holidays were co-opted (or stolen) by early Christians to get "the pagans" to convert.
Easter is not inherently a christian holiday goddammit. At least not in its popular celebration.
What makes you say that? Easter is now so entrenched with the death and resurrection of christ that it's origins as a spring festival are pretty well fully divorced from the modern meaning now. The church set the rules for determining Easter Sunday.
It's on Sunday every year, the day Christians go to church specifically to celebrate the resurrection.
This article interview talked to a professor from Notre Dame that goes over a ton of this and the significance of eggs.
I really wanna see Easter Bunny Mass now......
Ooh! And Sinter Klaas Mass!
Lul based. Same here, whatever will get them to leave me alone the soonest so I can continue toiling.
Honestly, at this point in my life, I'm so apathetic that I couldn't care less.
I grew up on the early internet, and I'm kind of part troll because of it. Since that's the case, and I'm surrounded by THE STRAIGHTS all day at work, I like to confuse and concern them by using non-gendered or non-binary terms as often as possible to refer to anyone in my personal life, especially my significant other (aka "partner" ;) )
I try to see how long I can go before I give anything away.
In reality, I'm a plain and "normal" cis dude, with a typical straight relationship.
While I'm trolling a bit with it, seeing if anyone cares enough to question it at all, I'm trying to do my part in normalizing the use of engendered terms with my colleagues, so that non-binary people will be more easily accepted, and those that are living in the rest of the rainbow, who don't want to be "out", have a normalized way to talk about their relationship without judgement, and without needing to "come out" to people.
I'm just one small part of this. I'm trying.
I do this too. I just default to they/them unless the gender is relevant to the story, which it rarely is.
I've found another benefit is that often it removes the gendered biases from the story. Like, if it's a bad customer who's a woman, but I call them they, people aren't immediately thinking of a Karen. Or if it's a man people aren't immediately thinking "oh well, boys will be boys".
This is interesting and maybe reason to say "my partner" instead of "my girlfriend".
Cishet guy here. I use the term "partner" all the time because I prefer nongendered relational terms. Plus, partner sounds a little more serious than saying "my girlfriend". We've been together 8 years but are not interested in marriage, so I feel like it's just the best word to use. It is amusing, though, when my partner isn't present and I'm talking to a stranger, that they often just assume I'm gay when I use it.
I live in northern Canada and kinda have to do the opposite to keep my job. When I talk about my wife I call her my wife and I use gendered language mostly. These guys are old school and I once heard them talk about someone who applied to work there, but they went and saw on Facebook that a year ago he had long hair and had it died blue and looked like a girl. They didn't even give him an interview just because of that, and they spent a good minute laughing amongst eachother about how much of a pussy that guy must have been.
literally me fr. Struggling with gender identity but too riddled with anxiety to want to have to put anything out there in a social environment, let alone work.
Probably for the best to not share it at work unless it's something huge like going outwardly trans.
Personally the less my coworkers know about me the better.
Too busy fighting off the dark thoughts inherent in capitalism, talk to me after my shift.
This but also there's no good they/them in German. Gotta wait for the feature first.
There‘s a reasonable proposal for „en“, so you can just use that
The german language is not bound by the laws of some institute, you can just use whatever you like!*
* Not applicable in schools in saxony, bavaria, schleswig-holstein, and saxony-anhalt.
My pronouns are "put me in whatever box you like, if you try to make me put myself in a box I'll throw acid in your face"
Too real
Being cute and girly seems like a lot of work. Also I'm surrounded by THE STRAIGHTS, so I'm sticking to the binary.. for now...
Good thing I'm comfortable being fat and hairy as a dude :p
I don't need pronouns, people can just call me "hey you" or "that jackass."
I personally prefer "that asshole," to "that jackass," but that's mostly because a lot of what I end up doing could be referred to as "playing pack mule."
Why did you have to call me out like that?
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