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coming out, dysphoria, radiation metaphor
okay so i re-came-out to a friend, because they just weren’t getting my pronouns, but after a meandering talk about social expectations and the background radiation of dysphoria, they got it.
hokay!
also another friend asked what i wanted to be called and i’m like “tanuki, they/them” and he’s like “but that’s your furry name?” and i’m like “it’s my name tho”
this friend got it too.
thanks world, you’re getting there!
coming out, dysphoria, radiation metaphor
friendo #1 asked, “isn’t they/them dehumanizing?”
answer paraphrased: no, it’s a personal pronoun, that you use for a person. just because in the singular sense it can mean “an unknown person” or “person of unknown gender” doesn’t really remove the personhood of it.
maybe my “real” pronouns are yet to be discovered, sleeping in the earth, to be accidentally mined and ▣■▢/▣▢▓ is unleashed on the world
til then, there’s they/them, and i feel good!