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Infamous Member
How Do You Identify?:
Lesbian non-stone femme
Preferred Pronoun?:
She, her
Relationship Status:
Committed to being good to myself
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: West Coast
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I tend to never use pronouns online as unless someone specifies what they prefer, as I am always afraid I will call them the wrong pronoun and they will get either pissed or feel hurt.
Coming from the old-school lesbian world, where butches still called themselves "her" and "she", it has been an education and at times, has felt like a minefield; to come online and find that over the last 10-years or so, that things had changed.
I had never heard, in the offline world, any of the new prounouns. I still really do not but the online world frequently is different than the outside world.
I still have a hard time using them and in interpersonal interactions online, occasionally "slip" without meaning to.
Change is difficult.
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~Anya~
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UN Human Rights commissioner
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