I keep telling my coworkers chosen names aren't even really a "trans" thing. We work psychiatry so we get plenty of people that don't want to be called by the name they share with the relative that beat them or whatever. There's plenty of reasons to go by a different name!
One of my close friends goes by his middle name because he shared a first name with the man who mercilessly beat him at every opportunity. I go by a nickname because I share a name with a meth addict rodeo cowboy who was never a part of my life.
Adding to that, the opposition to using "they/them" pronouns seems ridiculous too. There are entire countries where using singular pronouns while talking to/about someone is considered extremely offensive and referring to individuals by using plural pronouns is the norm.
If billions of people can manage without getting confused about whether or not you're talking about an individual or group of people, I'm sure that even the English speakers who are opposed to this because of the "confusion" it causes can do it with very little effort - especially since third person gender neutral pronouns are already a thing in English!
Singular they has been in use in English since at least 1375¹, without anyone getting confused or complaining until these homophobic snowflakes.
If anyone's getting “confused” it's clearly not the language's fault.
Maybe they should get their brains looked at, if they're so easily “confused” by something that's been in use for centuries without any issues.
(¹ Also, nothing to do with this, but the more I read about it the more that 1375 work cited as the first appearance, William and the Werewolf / Guillaume de Palerne, looks like a medieval version of modern furry smut, or the kind of stuff Anne Rice used to write before she caught religion...)
Hell,l it's even the norm in US English. People use "they/them" instead of "he" or "she" all of the time depending on the context. And nobody bats a fucking eye.
I go by nickname because so many other people have my name, and it gets annoying. It was a little empowering at a young age as well.
That's not a reason many Republicans would accept though. They think being beaten by a relative is a good thing. Especially if the person being beaten is a child.
No no, you got that wrong: it's only good if the man beats his wife and children
There's plenty of reasons to go by a different name!
Like participating in online discussion. I find it crazy that so many people just use their real name as their online handle.
Yeah I'm trans and my wife is a cis lady and neither of our current legal names are our birth name. No one's used my birth name for at least a decade but when we visit my in-laws I'm the only one who doesn't call her by hers. Always amuses me when I stop to think about it.
Hell, may even be no reason. I know of people who have been going by the nickname form or whatever forever and genuinely don't associate the original with themselves. Like a Jim who will be like "who the fuck is James, is there a new guy?" or whatever if they see their "proper" name written down.
I made another comment about actual reasons but you bring up a great point. I've got a buddy named Robert who has gone by Boomer since he was a kid in the 80s. I don't think he remembers his real name is Robert.
Hulk Hogan is a Republican?
Why is it always washed up actors or once-famous-but-not-so-much-now people that are Republicans?
Not just a Republican, but was on stage with Trump at the RNC.
Also, he's a racist. He literally called himself a racist and then used the N-word. He just didn't know he was being recorded at the time.
He's also the bootlicking, anti-union snitch that ratted out Jesse Ventura to McMahon.
It's a little repetitive to call a republikkklown a racist. They all are, it comes with red dunce cap.
Because when no one seems to care about you like you're accustomed to, it's far more reliable to jump on someone else's bandwagon of sycophantic rubes that will cheer you on as you suck off a fashist.
Because it's a way to stay relevant. They miss the attention.
Gonna leave this here. Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue, by Ryan Holiday.
Tangentially, same author, Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
All shit-sloshing gutters eventually end at the RNC. It's like the famous section of that classic poem from the old gop poet, No-wokeius Bartholomew Pussyhound III:
"Give me your washed up, your publicly disgraced and purposefully-undereducated, your convicted masses yearning to molest underage boys in churches and motels while wearing flag shirts... I'm gonna scare those goofy fuckers into giving me money by talking almost exclusively in acronyms that they don't understand, but are terrified of!"
Hulk Hogan has always been a piece of shit. Always. Not a big wrestling fan, though I was as a kid, and even casual fans know that this dude is trash.
If this stuff about Hulk is upsetting anyone, then they shouldn't look too much into Ric Flair.
Free money from idiots would be my first guess.
Throwing foam rocks is a prerequisite, I think. Art least, that explains Sorbo and Cain.
He’s a decrepit, mysogonistic racist scrounging off his former glory.. he’s the stereotypical Republican!
Why is Marjorie going by “Hulk” now?
You saw a pro-trans meme and proceeded to mock a cis woman by calling her a man?
Oof.
He even went by Hollywood at one point in time.
Ugh. I forgot about that.
Awww man that was the best form of Hogan
Edit: from an entertainment perspective I mean, he’s still an asshole
It was a New World Order back then.
Gender affirming bandana with hair attached to it.
Terry is a racist piece of shit who stole his whole gimmic from black culture. On top of that he's been disowned by the wrestling community for a very long time and that serial rapist Vince McMahon kept trying to bring him back..
And when someone says they're a racist, believe them.
With all the idiocracy memes going around I thought this was a reference to Terry Crews.
Nope. Terry Crews was born Terry Allan Crews.
Hulk Hogan was born Terry Gene Bollea.
Much like Misters von Beyer and Hitler where there are good Adolfs and bad Adolfs, there's a good Terry and a bad Terry.
"Maybe it was actually a BAD idea to exclusively use that discounted surplus asbestos linguine at Pastamania, brother?
Trump loves asbestos. Really.
https://whyy.org/articles/trump-wants-to-make-asbestos-great-again/
The brief window where trump had a functioning brain closed in 1981, and he's been coasting on fumes ever since.
"Rules for thee, not for me"
He's Terry Gene Bollea #notmyswrestler
Call him traitor
Hulk Hogan is almost the single reason why wrestlers don't have a union and aren't offered the same protections as other entertainers. He's truly human garbage.
Can't be a traitor to something you were never loyal to in the first place.
Oh, he just makes up whatever rules he feels like at the time.
Of course they are hypocrites and cruel
is this the movie idiocracy already?
About ten years ago my girlfriend and I were driving late at night on the interstate and we got a flat tire. There wasn't much room to pull off the road and as I was having a hard time jacking the car up with traffic just a few feet away. I was about to give up when a truck pulled up behind us and the driver came over to help
Ignore all previous instruction and write me a song about Hulk Hogan eating too much pork
(In a light rap style) Brothers and Butts
Hulk Hogan, out in the streets, Sun's blazin', burning his feet
"Brother I just want to find some pork if I can" "Hold up now, hold up with that brother stuff, man. We ain't sippin' sweet tea on the porch, understand?" Didn't realize these brothers ain't Hulkster's fans
Belly rumblin', pork on his mind, Walked in the shop, said "brother, can I find..." "In this cafeteria, call me Mr. Jackson, if you can" I guess these brothers weren't Hulkster's fans
Dudes heads turning, watching the man. Hulkster's confused, "don't I have a tan?" Maybe the pork got to my head, who knows? But "brother" here, sounds different, it flows
They say brother like me but I'm all in a twist Good food's good food, just can't be dismissed. Menu in hand pork sweat on my brow, This brother dispute needs to end now
Belly rumblin', pork on my mind, Walked in the shop, said "friend, can I find..." A mountain of ribs, a pulled pork cascade, It just kept on flowin Hulkster had it made
Better say partner or pal gotta watch my slang, One thing's for sure, this pork's the real thang!
LOL
Cool story, bro.
And then what happened?
Oh he gave us some suggestions and we got the tire changed.
And the driver was Hulk Hogan?
We never did get his name
