So I noticed people are increasingly putting their preferred pronouns on their social media, email signatures, résumés, etc. I also noticed a certain amount of praise gets ladled onto the ones who are other than their cisgender while heaps of scorn come at those whose pronouns match their apparent gender. Especially if they dare defend an idea that non-cis people are against.

Is this the world we live in now? Or is my little corner of the online world just a non-representative fluke, and non-cis people are actually more tolerant than I’m seeing?

Do not “notice” comrade.

I would like you to address me as 'Arch Btw' from this point forward, thank you.

I'd classify the kind of people that put their pronouns in their social profiles in two groups:

1. The inclusive and tolerant ones that do it on purpose, and
2. The ones that do it to, hopefully, not be targets of the rage and the hate from those belonging to group 1.

You are surrounded by the wrong kind of people, that reflects on your social media interactions as it shows more of them.

"social media" contains the word media. "media" in general has become synonymous with A. "Pushing an Agenda" or B. "Tearing Someone Down". I don't think the reasonable person is like that. I think most people realize other people are just people, warts and all. So, media outlets, for the most part, are not representative of the average person. I also hope that politicians are not representative of the people. Otherwise there are some really fucked up people out there. There is a huge disconnect of what you see in the news and what the reality is.

Never saw something like that. Not once.

There are only two genders...

@zvyn in my language theres two definitions of the word gender. One is connected to sex and the other to language. The third gender in language however describes a "thing"/"it" so I don't think that's applicable to humans other than an insult.