Should Bernie Sanders put "he/him" in his Twitter bio?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Since many think this is mandatory to be a leftist, lol.

No obviously. I don't know of a single politician that does this thank God.

[Some of My Best Friends Are Gay]

No, and this is a stupid thread.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

No, and this is a stupid thread.

Actually it has some merit, if someone does this on Twitter it's a surefire sign they aren't worth paying attention to.

[7,052,770]

Yes, all politicians should do this so I never actually vote for a they/them.

And before the meltdown, no I'm not anti-trans or anti-non-binary. If people want to use zhe/zhim or whatever, that's 100% cool with me. But we simply cannot rewrite the English language and make plural words singular.

[User155815470020]

Considering Sanders is a hermaphrodite, "he/him" wouldn't quite be an appropriate or accurate descriptor.

[Farmlands]

Considering Sanders is a hermaphrodite, "he/him" wouldn't quite be an appropriate or accurate descriptor.

And I thought Olawakandi had some strange posts. I'd really like to know how that idea came into fruition in your mind. Now to answer the question, it's such an irrelevant detail, I'm more interested to see whether Bernie's campaign can recover from the Biden bounce.

[History505]

No lol.

[Xing]

who care

[Grassroots]

People who put pronouns in their bio are automatically not taken seriously, at least by me.

[Scottholes 2.0]

The transphobia on this thread is just........

[Kleine Scheiße]

Yes; should be legally required of every citizen.

[John Dule]

I'll happily call anyone by whatever pronoun they want, provided that they address me as "The Golden God."

[💥💥 brandon bro (he/him/his)]

Not sure why so many people, including the brogressives, are so vehemently opposed to the easiest way to show solidarity with and encourage safety of people who are transgendered.

[The Mikado]

Yes, all politicians should do this so I never actually vote for a they/them.

And before the meltdown, no I'm not anti-trans or anti-non-binary. If people want to use zhe/zhim or whatever, that's 100% cool with me. But we simply cannot rewrite the English language and make plural words singular.

Why not? Pronouns can change. You used to be the formal version of the informal thou, but we decided two words was too much hassle. People say who instead of whom every day and no one flips out that who is only for subjects. Why not a singular "they," which has actually been used for literally centuries?

[Figueira]

It really does not make a difference to me.

But we simply cannot rewrite the English language and make plural words singular.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Imagine actually believing that language is static.

[💥💥 brandon bro (he/him/his)]

Not sure why so many people, including the brogressives, are so vehemently opposed to the easiest way to show solidarity with and encourage safety of people who are transgendered.

Perhaps they don't want others to think that they're mentally ill.

[BundouYMB]

In what universe does editing your twitter bio make the world safer for transgender people?

Sanders should not do this because it will either a). do nothing and be ignored or b). do nothing and cause lame twitter drama that will distract from the serious issues his campaign is based around -- serious issues which include trans rights, by the way.

[Simfan34]

After all these years, don't you get tired of making these kinds of threads?

[SWE]

But we simply cannot rewrite the English language and make plural words singular.

You might be a little late on this one. You're going to have to go back at least a couple centuries to find a time where using "they" as a singular pronoun wasn't commonplace in the English language.

[💥💥 brandon bro (he/him/his)]

In what universe does editing your twitter bio make the world safer for transgender people?

Sanders should not do this because it will either a). do nothing and be ignored or b). do nothing and cause lame twitter drama that will distract from the serious issues his campaign is based around -- serious issues which include trans rights, by the way.

Yes, in what universe does acknowledging that non-gender binary and/or transgendered people exist and using inclusive terminology/identifiers that they would like people to use make them safer? 🤔 I will acknowledge that it is rather difficult to imagine such a strange, concocted reality.

[Ilhan Apologist]

In what universe does editing your twitter bio make the world safer for transgender people?

Sanders should not do this because it will either a). do nothing and be ignored or b). do nothing and cause lame twitter drama that will distract from the serious issues his campaign is based around -- serious issues which include trans rights, by the way.

Yes, in what universe does acknowledging that non-gender binary and/or transgendered people exist and using inclusive terminology/identifiers that they would like people to use make them safer? 🤔 I will acknowledge that it is rather difficult to imagine such a strange, concocted reality.

[John Dule]

Not sure why so many people, including the brogressives, are so vehemently opposed to the easiest way to show solidarity with and encourage safety of people who are transgendered.

Perhaps they don't want others to think that they're mentally ill.

Not sure what's confusing about that.

[Skunk]

There is literally nothing wrong with putting pronouns in bios. If you have a problem with it and take people less seriously because of it, get the f**k over yourself.

[Bacon King]

1. chill with the BRTD hate y'all

No, and this is a stupid thread.

After all these years, don't you get tired of making these kinds of threads?

his unique quirks are what make him a forum treasure and that includes random thread creation. there's nothing wrong with posting unusual threads especially because they bring about interesting discussion that otherwise wouldn't happen (if you were to go back and measure it I'm certain BRTD threads are much larger in both post count and word count when compared by the forum average).

It's not like he even disagrees with you guys who think this thread his stupid! He said himself he ignores anyone who puts pronouns in their bio.



2. You people all have an insane (and horrendously anti-trans) social media litmus test, apparently get set off by incredibly trivial things, and you jump at the opportunity to judge a book by its cover

if someone does this on Twitter it's a surefire sign they aren't worth paying attention to.

Yes, all politicians should do this so I never actually vote for a they/them.

People who put pronouns in their bio are automatically not taken seriously, at least by me.

What you're literally saying here is "I intentionally ignore trans voices" as well as the voices of their well-intentioned allies. This hostility is surprising and bizarre. It says a lot about you, in a very bad way, if you're actually out there literally ignoring an entire class of people for such a trivial reason (and before you ask, this is coming from someone who doesn't have twitter bio pronouns and has never even considered the idea). This kind of fear towards change, the unknown, and what you don't understand is literally the same thing driving Trump's popular support. If you find yourself agreeing with alt-right voices like Jordan Peterson and flip out over literally something as trivial as pronoun use either you're autistic or you need to take a long, hard look in the mirror to come to terms with who you are and what you believe. _{(And I'm not using "autistic" as an insult, for the record, I mean it's genuinely a sign of autism spectrum disorders to place a very disproportionate degree of importance on a trivial matter such as this. I'm saying if you're on the spectrum and think this way then you have your own reasons and you're not necessarily a bigot).}

Normal people do not care about something as trivial as pronoun use at all. If you find yourself this bothered it, unless you're a huge asshole who openly hates trans people then you should probably check yourself because it sounds like you're being very motivated by a subconscious bias here


3. Others (Mikado and SWE) have already made points about your absurd insistence on prescriptivism far better than I could have. I'll only add that not only is prescriptivism both hypocritical and outdated, its proponents also have a tendency to be incredibly racist (manifested via selective hatred of AAVE in particular).


4. um....

Perhaps they don't want others to think that they're mentally ill.

if you think transgenderism is a mental illness then please kindly GTFO back to the era where that sort of thought belongs, so you can measure intelligence by skull size and sterilize the unhygienic races in peace

[BundouYMB]

What you're literally saying here is "I intentionally ignore trans voices" as well as the voices of their well-intentioned allies. This hostility is surprising and bizarre.

Um, this makes no sense. There are plenty of people who support trans rights -- and indeed plenty of trans people themselves -- who don't put pronouns in their twitter bio.

Editing your twitter bio doesn't make you some sort of brave pro-trans activist. I don't know if you've ever been on twitter, but most people just have some random funny statement as their bio. Do you really think that makes them all anti-trans bigots?

(That said, I certainly agree with you that it's equally strange to hold it against someone if they have their preferred pronouns in their twitter bio. I guess I just can't wrap my head around caring at all either way.)