Are pronouns THAT important?

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Yes, for language clarity, which is why it's annoying when people want to dick around with them to enhance their feelings of specialness.

New patch dropped: if someone's pronouns are "he/they," that now means you have to alternate between "he" and "they" in the same piece of writing. It's annoying as hell, and it'd be confusing if I'd read anything written in that style beyond the mini biographies on a webpage or a playbill. If you were trying to narrate action with two or more multipronoun people, good luck.
 
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It's a method of asserting dominance.
By enforcing pronouns, they essentially force you to violate truth.
It shows who or what forms the basis of your reality: their demands or your own observations.
The usage of pronouns and demanding that others use them is nothing more but ontological rape.
 
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Aunt Carol said:
Yes, for language clarity, which is why it's annoying when people want to dick around with them to enhance their feelings of specialness.

New patch dropped: if someone's pronouns are "he/they," that now means you have to alternate between "he" and "they" in the same piece of writing. It's annoying as hell, and it'd be confusing if I'd read anything written in that style beyond the mini biographies on a webpage or a playbill. If you were trying to narrate action with two or more multipronoun people, good luck.
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Its also crazymaking to try and train people into denying the evidence of their own eyes. Asking to control how someone refers to you *when you aren't around* is utterly bizarre and creepy. That anyone would feel entitled to do that is alarming.
 
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Providence said:
Its also crazymaking to try and train people into denying the evidence of their own eyes. Asking to control how someone refers to you *when you aren't around* is utterly bizarre and creepy. That anyone would feel entitled to do that is alarming.
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Some people are setting up a trap. I used to be in an online circle where people would change pronouns every month or so, so then their friends would suddenly be commenting on anything you'd written about them in the past, "helpfully" (or worse) reminding you about their pronouns.

The people who want one set of pronouns for close friends, one set of pronouns for everyone else--congratulations, you've reinvented the T-V distinction, and thou shouldst consider just going with the traditional English familiar when speaking with thy close friends.

Sadly, it's never as simple as that. With neopronouns, people theoretically use them in the third person, so you can "show off" that you're allowed to call someone "she," and have the power games to determine if someone "deserves" intimate pronouns,
 
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Kinda?

Language and the ability to communicate concisely matters, at least to me. But the people that demand you use pronouns usually have no interest in being clear and concise or having any form of open communication.

A lot of people big in the pronoun thing I've noticed tend to be people who only know basic American English and feel like that's an accurate representation of not just the entire English language, but language in general.

So it's hard to take them seriously when they talk about language
 
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They're important for constructing sentences and communicating effectively, but they're not important in the "you misgendered me!!!!" sense of the question. They're just neutral terms of address, not even slurs or fighting words, it shouldn't matter.
 
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they are pro nouns the same way they are pro trans and I can appeal to the greatest authority; myself, and since we live in a dead internet that means I am correct
source: kiwi qna shitposter
 
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