SweetCitrusBuzz

Okidoke, hope you have a pleasant life and you never get upset about the way folks talk to you about anything or refer to you.

Wow, the award for quickest turnaround for proving the point goes to....

It always confuses me when people say 'offend' people, because usually it is not offense they feel etc.

Well, that's not a very fair way of treating/thinking of people, some people are going to be hurt or upset by certain things and it's better to understand that we all have emotions and they are not pointless just because you see no value in them i.e. 'illogical'. It's better to work together and find ways of communicating that aren't genuinely hurtful ioo.

So like, just because you 'studied' linguistics you think that makes you an expert on how language should always be used or that people should not feel a certain way about language just because you say so?

That's not exactly a compelling argument.

Language is always going to carry certain meanings for some folks and we do a disservice to people by ignoring that, we all have our own personal lexicons/semantic meanings to a degree and that will likely never change, we do best by understanding this and working together to understand and accept when certain language can be hurtful and thus find ways of talking that do work for each other.

I feel that's a better way of being than talking down to someone like you just did and telling them that how they feel about it doesn't matter and they should just get with the program, which is never going to work.

Okay, but not everybody is going to be comfortable with it and so are you saying you would not change your speech for them?

Also which country?

A trans femme is someone who tries to make themselves look more 'femme' often through taking estrogen etc, it can refer to trans women as well but also refers to those who don't completely identify or at all as a woman, see nonbinary folks for example. It's kind of a catch all term.

Who said anything bout language policing? I was merely saying for myself. I think passing is a pointless binary concept and not even all cis women 'pass'. So I'm not all that interested in passing 100%, just being happy to be me.

In what context(s)?

A lot of trans femmes myself included cannot see 'guys' as gender neutral no matter how hard we try and so do not like it.

https://thirdroom.io/

We can only hope.

Will it? All I have seen is that self driving cars will decide to kill people because they cannot make decisions about life in a way that preserves it.

Maybe in like 1000 years plus they might become good enough but by that time the conditions that make cars a necessity would be no more or at least severly reduced.

Violence is a tool and like many tools it must be used correctly and at the right times. However, it's also not the only tool in the toolbox in which there are many.

Yes, that is a fair point.