Their behaviour is weird and self-contradictory and drag is sick of it!
People constantly ask drag why drag uses neopronouns. And then when drag answers, they get mad about the answer. What gives!?
This person here seems nice, no shade on them, but look at the downvote numbers. Three other people upvoted their accepting comment, saying drag should be dragself. But it looks as though those same three people downvoted drag for explaining drag's pronouns. So they hate drag for being drag, but they like platitudes and symbolic gestures of acceptance. It doesn't make any sense.
Drag is wondering whether drag should even explain drag's pronouns to anyone anymore. Last week, drag got banned from [email protected] for explaining drag's pronouns. Someone asked, and drag answered their question. Drag didn't agree with the situation and made a thread on yepowertrippinbastards - https://lemmy.nz/post/15935996 - and most of the people in the thread accused drag of changing the subject to dragself and demanding others use drag's pronouns. Other people clog up the thread with demanding drag explain themselves, and it's drag's fault they asked.
Maybe drag should just ignore people who ask drag to explain drag's pronouns, or tell them no. But surely the transphobes will get mad at that, too.
Drag thinks maybe the reason they get mad when drag evades, and mad when drag complies, is because they just want a socially acceptable excuse to be mad at drag. They want to manufacture conflict so they can attack the trans person and pretend it's not about drag's transness.
My homie, I'm going to quote here
That sentence is drag as a possesive noun. The 's means that the "pronouns" word right after the 's is possessed by drag.
You don't say, in English, I's pronouns, or mine's pronouns, or my's pronouns. You would only say my pronouns. My is the singular possessive of the self.
Like, I have mad respect for you, you make people think, and you handle the bullshit with grace. If you're going to make it work, you kinda have to choose between following english grammar and structure in a way that communicates clearly, or expect confusion followed by anger. When you try to explain your choices to people, you fall back on incorrect grammar. It makes it look like you're fucking with people rather than explaining.
Now, if you want to do that, that's cool. You can make that choice freely. I'm not trying to change your mind, or get you to do things the way everyone else does. But that's why you get anger.
Again, I dig you. I've enjoyed seeing you around lemmy. This isn't an attack. I'm just trying to explain what other people have said already, but in a slightly different way, since you seem to not see where the anger is coming from. It could be a language barrier, I dunno.
That's right, most people change their pronouns when they're expressing ownership. But drag's pronoun is consistent and doesn't change for that case. Drag doesn't have a special possessive pronoun, drag just uses the same one as usual.