Woke Mob (aka: "Mobbinary") along with their buddy He/Himple and proud mother Reigen Arataka~! Based on this Twitter post:
I absolutely loved seeing all the different takes on the Woke Mob Meme from various artists, so I decided that I wanted to make my own and finally worked up the courage to do so! and I honest to Mob love this piece so much! I'm so happy with how they turned out, and I hope you guys like them too!
I used to think they were cringe, but let me tell you why they are absolutely not cringe actually
Consider why we need singular third person pronouns in the first place (when referring to people). One use case is to refer to a hypothetical unknown person:
If the customer wants to checkout, they should queue.
In this case you should always use "they" anyway, since it is the accepted "this person does not necessarily exist" pronoun.
The other use case is when you want a way the refer to someone without the emphasis that using a name carries:
I saw Michael, he said his car broke down.
It would be exhausting to use the full name every time, right? But the pronoun still refers to this named person, and in some cases where there are multiple people using the same pronoun the name is more clear in terms of who you are referring to.
So can we have the benefits of both the name and the pronoun? We would need an unstressed one-syllable word to refer to Michael once they have been established as a topic or a participant of the conversation. Enter: neopronouns.
Let's say Michael uses "ael" as her pronoun of choice, derived from last three letters of its name. Then one might say:
I saw Michael, ael said aels car broke down.
The chances of someone else using the same pronouns are quite slim, and saying "ael" takes no more emphasis than any conventional third person pronoun.
Btw. You don't need a separate object form of your pronoun (she Vs her), that's a feature of the language that died out for nouns a long time ago but persists with pronouns despite not technically communicating extra info. If it did you couldn't just replace both the subject and object form with the same noun with the sentence retaining it's meaning, and there's plenty languages where this is the case, English is just not one of them.
Okay, so isn't this just a nickname? Well if it makes it easier for you to accept neopronouns, sure you can think of them as nicknames. But the difference is that a nickname carries the same emphasis as a name would, while a pronoun does not so that the emphasis can be elsewhere in the sentence ("the car" in the example above).
See I know Republicans use of "woke" was appropriative and misusing AAVE. And I was always like "You don't know what woke even means". But this point of view opens my eyes up to an entire new type of white supremacist dog whistle and it's driving me wild.
(Also this is why I listen to Black people in issues of white supremacy. Because they have a viewpoint that I simply could never see without it being pointed out to me.)
Friendly reminder girls can like boyish things and be tomboys and boys can like girly things and be feminine without being transgender.
“Dismantling gender roles” doesn’t work if you insist that any child who shows interest in something that goes against their sex implies they’re the opposite.
In fact it just reenforces those gender roles the woke crowd seem to hate so much
Interests have no gender and anyone can like anything. It doesn’t mean they’re not who they were when they were born.
It's really wild to me that foster kids are completely excluded in theories of privilege, intersectional feminism or diversity and inclusion policies.
Even though the outcomes for former foster kids are absolutely horrific, it is often ignored... Unless foster kids are being used in the abortion debate.
Listen I’m personally not at all surprised by the revelation that the art book explicitly calls A a woman, but what’s with the sudden historical revisionism going on where people claim it was absurd for A’s gender to have EVER be in doubt or considered ambiguous?
Two queer Hispanics (me and my coworker) reading the 100 page manifesto someone sent our workplace (public library) after seeing us host and promote lgbtqia+ friendly programs and books