Fnord wrote:
Demanding the use of one's pronouns of choice is a form of identity politics (coupled with political correctness) that does more to alienate people than to establish and connections between them. Controlling the speech of others also violates the free-speech rights of those others,
Do you feel this way about rules of social etiquette generally, or just new ones?
Today's emerging use of pronouns is an instance of the more general emerging etiquette rule of becoming more inclusive of the sensibilities of various marginalized minorities.
Fnord wrote:
and objecting to a binary person's insistence on their preferred pronouns because it is a "genderfluid thing" is akin to objecting to the "appropriation" of cultural traditions as one's own.
Not sure I get what you are referring to here.
Fnord wrote:
(I like wearing a barong tagalog to church services, especially here in the Philippines, and no one objects to my "appropriation" of Filipino/Maharlika cultural traditions.)
Are you wearing the barong tagalog in an insulting, disrespectful, or culturally inappropriate way, or in a way that demonstrates ignorance of Filipino/Maharlika culture? If you were, someone there would probably object. If not, then it isn't "cultural appropriation," properly speaking.
Cultural appropriation isn't just
any use of something from another culture, but more specifically (at least according to the
Encyclopedial Britannica), "when members of a majority group adopt cultural elements of a minority group in an exploitative, disrespectful, or stereotypical way." See also
Cultural Appreciation vs. Cultural Appropriation: Why it Matters.
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