In Dutch "they/them" is "zij". Which is very annoying, because "she" is also "zij".
Which means the Dutch genderless pronoun has mostly become "hen", which is "them" in the dative (3rd) case, which is only rarely used otherwise, and thus available.
No they say it because they want to objectify and demean you. I knew a guy like this and it had nothing to do with sticking to the binary and everything to do with making people feel bad for being different.
Yeah it's really sad that people are like that. He was the choir teacher at my hs and would call a nb person in the group 'it' if he was corrected. Just kinda gross but he was old as fuck and abt to retire anyway so we never really escalated it.
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Signtist@lemm.ee · 33 pts · 2y
People playing tag 💪
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 2y
Also Finns. We have perfectly gender neutral pronouns but we prefer to use "it" instead
velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 2y
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2y
In Dutch "they/them" is "zij". Which is very annoying, because "she" is also "zij".
Which means the Dutch genderless pronoun has mostly become "hen", which is "them" in the dative (3rd) case, which is only rarely used otherwise, and thus available.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Made me remember the "je, tu, il, elle, nous-vous-ils-elles" french educational song ha
Zaros@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Unless we're talking about pets, funny enough.
lugal@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 2y
I thought terfs insist on using the false pronoun? Using more than 2 pronouns for humans breaks the gender binary
GiveMemes@jlai.lu · 7 pts · 2y
No they say it because they want to objectify and demean you. I knew a guy like this and it had nothing to do with sticking to the binary and everything to do with making people feel bad for being different.
lugal@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 2y
That's scary. I never heard that before
GiveMemes@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 2y
Yeah it's really sad that people are like that. He was the choir teacher at my hs and would call a nb person in the group 'it' if he was corrected. Just kinda gross but he was old as fuck and abt to retire anyway so we never really escalated it.