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Playing with Pronouns
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2019-05-11 at 5 PM UTCI want to ask everybody I meet to refer to me she she/hers pronouns or ze/zirs pronouns to trip them up for when they invariably refer to me as he/his and then I can frown at them and make them feel bad.
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2019-05-11 at 5:38 PM UTCtell them your pronoun is it/its and explain you are a plural robot
beep boop!
Originally posted by Ghost Hi, my name's Scronny and my pronouns are it/it/its! You can use either for me. I'm a Robot.
It/its pronouns are strange, contentious, and unusual. My pronouns are my pronouns and I can make them whatever I want. This post is mostly focused on why I've made this decision. I want to be open and honest with y'all about what's led me to where I am.
HOW? But Scron, it/its pronouns are for like, bugs, and robots, and things that are less than human! You can't use them, that's not how it works!
I came up with a way of coping. I really like robots. That's something you probably know about me. For my whole life they've been around, whether it be Star Wars or Megaman or LEGO Mindstorms or whatever. In my worst hours, I find comfort in their perfection. Sleek metal, intentional, carefully tested programming, working exactly as intended with no strange blips. If there are strange blips, they get diagnosed and fixed! Permanently, even! Robots are really beautiful in that way - they're clean, and intentional, and they make sense. When I'm saddled with fear, hopelessness, confusion, disgust with my own body, whatever, sometimes I map that robotic perfection onto myself for comfort. If I could have sleek metal in a good, sensible shape instead of weird flubby soft skin, bug-free programming instead of a mess of weirdness carved by millions of years of random chance evolution, then things would make sense, and I'd be happy?
If that doesn't make any sense, I understand. I like pretending to be a robot. It helps me overcome my bad emotions. It's a bit odd, sure, but is it really that bad?
The shortest answer: i'm a beep boop!
