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submitted 4 months ago by anthony@lemmy.cif.su to c/lgbtq_plus@beehaw.org
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[-] guillem@aussie.zone 16 points 4 months ago

Question about style: wouldn't it be better to refer to her as her speaking about her pre-op life, even if she was fulfilling a male social role? Or the column's choice of pronouns is better?

[-] fracture@beehaw.org 28 points 4 months ago

it's highly personal, so ideally you ask the individual and include their consent in your article. that said, generally speaking, trans people will use their current pronouns, even referring to their pre-transition selves. this is also what's generally considered polite if you don't know them, so it's pretty suspect that the article is not doing that

still, something about malice and incompetence....

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 6 points 4 months ago

If an article is written by an author of her biography they may have talked about the use of pronouns.

But wiki article, for instance, consistency uses "her" to refer to her

[-] Arkhive@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 4 months ago

Also some other language like “woman attracted to other men” just shows you aren’t conceptualizing this person as a woman. Like grammatical parallelism be damned. She was a woman attracted to men. That’s it.

[-] celeste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 4 months ago

Yes, this is poor style.

[-] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yes. No, it's distasteful.

[-] theangriestbird@beehaw.org 14 points 4 months ago
[-] Vodulas@beehaw.org 13 points 4 months ago

Why is this marked as NSFW?

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 18 points 4 months ago

You will read the article and become exposed to computer science, no good

[-] Vodulas@beehaw.org 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I mean, I kinda get it since the article does a piss poor job of using correct pronouns, but put a content warning in the description if that is the case

Edit: It is still early and my words were not good

[-] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

I thought they were referring to John Horton Conway first.

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