• SuperNovaStar
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    1 day ago

    Is it weird that I’m a Trans girl and I still use dude like so much?

    And yet when other people use it for me, I feel like I have to ask how they meant it 😅

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      19 hours ago

      6 months in and I still misgender myself sometimes lol. It definitely isn’t a super easy switchover after decades of using something else.

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        Oh I don’t see it as a bad thing. I’m just saying it’s ironic.

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      It’s a little inconsistent, but don’t beat yourself up too much. Language is complicated and slow to change, same as our usage of it.

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        but don’t beat yourself up too much

        Oh don’t worry, that wasn’t the spirit of my comment at all. If anything, I started using dude after my egg cracked. It fits with the chill, tomboyish image I have of myself.

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          I feel that, it was drilled into me in the 90s and I just it for most people as well.