I like the idea of academics corresponding with students using ‘Emojiselfs’ and that as an [example the wiki page has](https://lgbta.fandom.com/wiki/Neopronouns) used skulls for whatever reason (eg. 💀/💀s skull/skulls).
> *’💀 has shown killer instinct when on the course, however, 💀 should stop spending so much time 🔪, 🗡️ and 🧛 and concentrate more in class.’*
> The university’s guide explains the concept of pronouns for individuals, stressing that someone’s gender cannot necessarily be assumed just based on their name, appearance, voice, or the manner in which they express themselves.
> Its guidance also links to a web page that says that some people may identify as felines and others could use ’emojiself pronouns’, which some people ridiculed online.
So are staff going to get in trouble for ignorantly / accidentally referring to a student who considers themselves to be a feline or.. emoji.. as something else now?
Can’t help but feel that working staff (in any job, for that matter) have enough on their plates without having to remember every individuals invisible preferred pronouns.
By all means make an effort not to mis-gender others if they’re male identifying as female etc. but felines.. emojis.. really?
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Also at the risk of stirring things up… would be curious how any Trans / NB users feel about the lengths these pronouns are apparently going to. When it was ‘just’ ensuring that someone identifying as a woman was addressed as a woman, it made more sense. Personally I’d feel this makes a mockery of more legit issues – with a new arms race of who can have the most distinct and unsubstantiated pronoun (“I now identify as a brick, I’d like to be known as Brick / Brick / Brickself”)…
He/she, he/him, they/them is as far as I’m going with pronouns. I’m fully onboard with the trans/non-binary stuff but neopronouns can get to fuck, what a load of fucking tumblr shite.
I tend to use ‘they’ when I don’t know whether he or she is appropriate, but I’m not going to use ‘cat pronouns.’ Last time I checked, cats are either male or female anyway.
I can solve all of this. Tell me your name and I’ll refer to you as that. You don’t need to say he, she, they, zee, or anything if you can just say Steve.
She he them all that jazz grand. But if I was having a conversation with someone and someone asked me to refer to them as catgender only thing I’ll be refering you to is the lovely facility with the cuddle jackets.
This is just media baiting. Bristol university quickly copy-pasted some shit they found on the internet in staff documentation nobody ever bothers to actually read the same way they often do, daft stuff found inside. This really doesn’t matter at all; university staff being overworked and rushed is the norm, and some kids on the internet talking about silly but harmless things is going to be an eternal fact of the internet.
Ah is this the new gender moral panic we’re going to be hearing about on GBNews?
This just cheapens the very real problems with dysphoria. It shouldn’t be reduced to such frivolous nonsense.
Look what probably happened is someone pulled the list together very quickly and didn’t really read that much into it.
Also when it comes to a lot of the ‘weird genders’ a lot of it is more intended for like intracommunity use rather than a wider scale so it’s more like specific language within a group and it’s often less straight up someone saying ‘I am a cat’ it’s more ‘This is how I’ve found to explain how my gender works’ and it’s people trying to find ways to describe things. Like for example you have autigender which isn’t ‘my gender is autism’ it’s ‘being autistic impacts my view of my gender that much I cant separate it out’
Also it could be a otherkin label, and otherkin is not the same as gender it’s a whole other thing.
He/him, She/her and They/them is as far I’m going to go, anything else is fucking ridiculous
Well done to whichever troll managed to persuade the author of this guide that they were genuine. This is the attack helicopter meme but they’ve actually managed to get it into an (apparently at least) non-satirical document.
I don’t really understand how personality traits became mixed up with gender. But I’m old.
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I’m all for using someone’s requested pronouns but feline humans? [Let’s not go down that road again.](https://media3.giphy.com/media/YPVPT6NauFCzHRXz8n/source.gif)
I like the idea of academics corresponding with students using ‘Emojiselfs’ and that as an [example the wiki page has](https://lgbta.fandom.com/wiki/Neopronouns) used skulls for whatever reason (eg. 💀/💀s skull/skulls).
> *’💀 has shown killer instinct when on the course, however, 💀 should stop spending so much time 🔪, 🗡️ and 🧛 and concentrate more in class.’*
Edit: I now realise this was [pretty obvious bait by the media](https://c.tenor.com/eI1dQX_x34oAAAAC/fool-the-simpsons.gif) and not the policy of Bristol Uni or the LGBTQ community.
> The university’s guide explains the concept of pronouns for individuals, stressing that someone’s gender cannot necessarily be assumed just based on their name, appearance, voice, or the manner in which they express themselves.
> Its guidance also links to a web page that says that some people may identify as felines and others could use ’emojiself pronouns’, which some people ridiculed online.
So are staff going to get in trouble for ignorantly / accidentally referring to a student who considers themselves to be a feline or.. emoji.. as something else now?
Can’t help but feel that working staff (in any job, for that matter) have enough on their plates without having to remember every individuals invisible preferred pronouns.
By all means make an effort not to mis-gender others if they’re male identifying as female etc. but felines.. emojis.. really?
Edit:
Also at the risk of stirring things up… would be curious how any Trans / NB users feel about the lengths these pronouns are apparently going to. When it was ‘just’ ensuring that someone identifying as a woman was addressed as a woman, it made more sense. Personally I’d feel this makes a mockery of more legit issues – with a new arms race of who can have the most distinct and unsubstantiated pronoun (“I now identify as a brick, I’d like to be known as Brick / Brick / Brickself”)…
He/she, he/him, they/them is as far as I’m going with pronouns. I’m fully onboard with the trans/non-binary stuff but neopronouns can get to fuck, what a load of fucking tumblr shite.
I tend to use ‘they’ when I don’t know whether he or she is appropriate, but I’m not going to use ‘cat pronouns.’ Last time I checked, cats are either male or female anyway.
Last time we had cat-human hybrids, it was a complete disaster.
[2.7 / 10](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5697572/)
Meow meeeoowww meeeooww mmmeeeoooooowwww meow meow meeeeeoowwww meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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I can solve all of this. Tell me your name and I’ll refer to you as that. You don’t need to say he, she, they, zee, or anything if you can just say Steve.
She he them all that jazz grand. But if I was having a conversation with someone and someone asked me to refer to them as catgender only thing I’ll be refering you to is the lovely facility with the cuddle jackets.
This is just media baiting. Bristol university quickly copy-pasted some shit they found on the internet in staff documentation nobody ever bothers to actually read the same way they often do, daft stuff found inside. This really doesn’t matter at all; university staff being overworked and rushed is the norm, and some kids on the internet talking about silly but harmless things is going to be an eternal fact of the internet.
Ah is this the new gender moral panic we’re going to be hearing about on GBNews?
This just cheapens the very real problems with dysphoria. It shouldn’t be reduced to such frivolous nonsense.
Look what probably happened is someone pulled the list together very quickly and didn’t really read that much into it.
Also when it comes to a lot of the ‘weird genders’ a lot of it is more intended for like intracommunity use rather than a wider scale so it’s more like specific language within a group and it’s often less straight up someone saying ‘I am a cat’ it’s more ‘This is how I’ve found to explain how my gender works’ and it’s people trying to find ways to describe things. Like for example you have autigender which isn’t ‘my gender is autism’ it’s ‘being autistic impacts my view of my gender that much I cant separate it out’
Also it could be a otherkin label, and otherkin is not the same as gender it’s a whole other thing.
He/him, She/her and They/them is as far I’m going to go, anything else is fucking ridiculous
Well done to whichever troll managed to persuade the author of this guide that they were genuine. This is the attack helicopter meme but they’ve actually managed to get it into an (apparently at least) non-satirical document.
I don’t really understand how personality traits became mixed up with gender. But I’m old.