Hey there! I’m sage. You probably know me; if you don’t, I’m a veteran member (1670 days) and have been on this server for more than a third of my life as a whole. It’s an important server to me, so I have an important announcement to make: I’m non-binary, which basically means that, instead of the he/him pronouns you’ve all been using for me for the last 4.5 years, I’d like to be called they/them now. No major changes; I’m still the Sage you all know and love Thanks for reading, Sage
Hey! It's possible to choose 'Unspecified' in Gender part of your personal details now... I'm pretty sure it wasn't when I last checked! You might want to use that, then.
Hmm. That would work, if emc wouldn’t say “please enter a valid value” when I try to edit my profile. Help.
[Dad-Joke] Hey non-binairy, I'm Jelle [/Dad-Joke] More. LGBT. On. EMC. Yay, join the club And, congratulations on coming out Yes. You cannot change it back to "unspecified" once you have given it a value for "gender." It's a programm from 2013, maybe that explains... (I know, It's still sad)
Just wondering why do you want to be called they or them? you are not two people you are one person so why?
I think it's more or less the process of elimination. In the English language, there is no "pronoun" that exists specifically for non-binary people that does not automatically assume a gender upon itself. Basically, "them/they" is the best we can do. That is, unless someone comes up with a more appropriate word that the English language will adopt.
They/them is just general use non-binairy langue. It is used quite oftenly to refer to people in singular terms. If you want to learn more about it, here's a great short educational video by linguist Tom Scott:
I didn't think you had met anyone from EMC IRL! Ah right, that was the problem! It'd been a while since I'd heard Tom being referred to as a linguist! (lots of exclamation marks in this post! )
Is it possible to refer you as 0 and 1? but I totally get it they and them is actually better than he/she
