I've tried searching for "person-independent neopronouns" and failed to find any results.

Care to explain how this is different than referring to one's self in the third person? Because I'll be honest, I have a hard time wrapping my head around this.

My respect isn't conditional to my understanding, but I feel I could respect better if I understood more.

idk why people aren’t excited to use new words. we’re speaking a highly mutable and constantly evolving language. every year we get brand new words, others get new meanings, it’s all very exciting!

but then someone specifically says “i would feel more comfortable if you used this word” and THAT’S a bridge too far. it’s a kind of selfish that i just don’t understand.

It's funny seeing people get so worked up over drag.

When you think about it, it's likely we speak different to at least some extent to almost everyone we talk to. We have our own internal dialog. We talk to our significant other different than we talk to strangers. We talk to kids differently. We talk to pets differently. Even between friends, there's one friend you joke about X with and another you call Y as a nickname. But somehow when someone asks to be called drag, the system breaks down.

After I first got exposed to the way drag's pronouns work, I wasn't sure if it was a joke or attention thing, but after seeing drag around for a while, other than the pronouns, the comments are really normal stuff. So as long as drag is being thoughtful, considerate and friendly, I see no reason not to accommodate drag's request. I'm not sure if I've totally got it 100%, but I'm giving it my best!

I don't know if drag is trolling or not but it doesn't matter, drag is always polite and I am absolutely here for drag making fake progressives uncomfortable when something actually challenges their worldview of what is "acceptable."

I think part of the reason why people struggle with it is because using proper nouns repeatedly kinda wears people down, which is part of why pronouns exist. Idk just me.

But I will do my best to respect drag and refer to drag however drag wants :)

Keep rocking Drag! Sorry about the haters, but Drag seems great from the few comments I've run into across Lemmy

Drag always makes me smile.

Also: There are a lot of dragons here. I'm in danger! 😅

I do my best for this! I'm not used to changing second person pronouns. (And have never heard of it before encountering drag.) Fortunately in text, it's easy to take a second glance and fix where I messed up.

I have nothing against dobbygender, they have my full support 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

Between drag and the person talking in thorns, lemmy has been fun to read lately. Y'all ain't hurting anyone, anyone has a problem with it they can just mute and move on.

Legit question that my comment made me think of, though - what are drag's feelings on pronouns like "y'all" - see also "you guys" etc?

Edit: mulling it over, I think "y'all" only felt initially weird to me because I was equating it to "they", but "they" has two uses - one to refer to a single person without gendering, and one to refer to a group of many people. "Y'all" in this case would be the equivalent of the second, not really the first.

Idk, language is hard, just fuckin get along.

My main source of confusion was thinking something drag wrote referred to drag as in drag queens. Once I realized it was a name, it's uncommon usage but not harming anyone.

Drag yr fckin with the status quo and I love that for drag. We do not need to cling to our comfort zone with regards to social constructs and asserting one's autonomy is never policing others -- regardless of how indignant those who are have become accustomed to policing tran's people's expression may loudly take difference.

Whatever other disagrements we might have, in fighting for freedom from/of gender expression, we fam 🫶

Drag has specified "any pronouns" for several years now. And since drag made "drag" a pronoun, that means drag can also be called "drag" now! Drag and drag are both "drag," it's cannon now.