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I keep telling my coworkers chosen names aren't even really a "trans" thing. We work psychiatry so we get plenty of people that don't want to be called by the name they share with the relative that beat them or whatever. There's plenty of reasons to go by a different name!
One of my close friends goes by his middle name because he shared a first name with the man who mercilessly beat him at every opportunity. I go by a nickname because I share a name with a meth addict rodeo cowboy who was never a part of my life.
Adding to that, the opposition to using "they/them" pronouns seems ridiculous too. There are entire countries where using singular pronouns while talking to/about someone is considered extremely offensive and referring to individuals by using plural pronouns is the norm.
If billions of people can manage without getting confused about whether or not you're talking about an individual or group of people, I'm sure that even the English speakers who are opposed to this because of the "confusion" it causes can do it with very little effort - especially since third person gender neutral pronouns are already a thing in English!
Singular they has been in use in English since at least 1375¹, without anyone getting confused or complaining until these homophobic snowflakes.
If anyone's getting “confused” it's clearly not the language's fault.
Maybe they should get their brains looked at, if they're so easily “confused” by something that's been in use for centuries without any issues.
(¹ Also, nothing to do with this, but the more I read about it the more that 1375 work cited as the first appearance, William and the Werewolf / Guillaume de Palerne, looks like a medieval version of modern furry smut, or the kind of stuff Anne Rice used to write before she caught religion...)
We also used to have a singular version of the pronoun "you", which was thou, but somehow people are able to cope with you being both singular and plural. But telling them that they has been both singular and plural for over 700 years is way too much for them to cope with.
That's not a reason many Republicans would accept though. They think being beaten by a relative is a good thing. Especially if the person being beaten is a child.
No no, you got that wrong: it's only good if the man beats his wife and children
I go by nickname because so many other people have my name, and it gets annoying. It was a little empowering at a young age as well.
There's plenty of reasons to go by a different name!
Like participating in online discussion. I find it crazy that so many people just use their real name as their online handle.
Hulk Hogan is a Republican?
Why is it always washed up actors or once-famous-but-not-so-much-now people that are Republicans?
Not just a Republican, but was on stage with Trump at the RNC.
Also, he's a racist. He literally called himself a racist and then used the N-word. He just didn't know he was being recorded at the time.
He's also the bootlicking, anti-union snitch that ratted out Jesse Ventura to McMahon.
Because when no one seems to care about you like you're accustomed to, it's far more reliable to jump on someone else's bandwagon of sycophantic rubes that will cheer you on as you suck off a fashist.
Because it's a way to stay relevant. They miss the attention.
Gonna leave this here. Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue, by Ryan Holiday.
Tangentially, same author, Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
All shit-sloshing gutters eventually end at the RNC. It's like the famous section of that classic poem from the old gop poet, No-wokeius Bartholomew Pussyhound III:
"Give me your washed up, your publicly disgraced and purposefully-undereducated, your convicted masses yearning to molest underage boys in churches and motels while wearing flag shirts... I'm gonna scare those goofy fuckers into giving me money by talking almost exclusively in acronyms that they don't understand, but are terrified of!"
He even went by Hollywood at one point in time.
Ugh. I forgot about that.
Awww man that was the best form of Hogan
Edit: from an entertainment perspective I mean, he’s still an asshole
It was a New World Order back then.
Gender affirming bandana with hair attached to it.
Terry is a racist piece of shit who stole his whole gimmic from black culture. On top of that he's been disowned by the wrestling community for a very long time and that serial rapist Vince McMahon kept trying to bring him back..
And when someone says they're a racist, believe them.
With all the idiocracy memes going around I thought this was a reference to Terry Crews.
Nope. Terry Crews was born Terry Allan Crews.
Hulk Hogan was born Terry Gene Bollea.
Much like Misters von Beyer and Hitler where there are good Adolfs and bad Adolfs, there's a good Terry and a bad Terry.
Terry Gene Bollocks would have been a better fit
"Maybe it was actually a BAD idea to exclusively use that discounted surplus asbestos linguine at Pastamania, brother?
Trump loves asbestos. Really.
https://whyy.org/articles/trump-wants-to-make-asbestos-great-again/
"Rules for thee, not for me"
He's Terry Gene Bollea #notmyswrestler
Oh, he just makes up whatever rules he feels like at the time.
Call him traitor
Hulk Hogan is almost the single reason why wrestlers don't have a union and aren't offered the same protections as other entertainers. He's truly human garbage.