A Generous Read of the ContraPoints ‘Pronoun Discourse’

Critics of Natalie Wynn are entirely missing the point.

Because the elusive conquest for untarnished tolerance has mostly been monolithic, it’s been quite hard to get a good grip on what best befits the experiences of individual persons with regards to how they identify, or how they would otherwise view the issue on the whole.

The original tweet garnering Natalie Wynn much ire.

That’s what’s been bubbling up recently as Natalie ‘ContraPoints’ Wynn took a swing at one of the most preciously-held held tenets of trans acceptance in recent years–pronouns. In Wynn’s case, she made the observation that whenever she’s in spaces where she easily passes, the burden of having to announce to the world her pronouns presents itself as a courtesy, not a necessity. But in hyper-woke spaces, the pendulum swings so far in the other direction, that Wynn’s preference for she/her pronouns becomes practically moot because of how many times she has to invoke its usage. What essentially happens is, the space that is theoretically least-accepting of Wynn is most-accepting of her peculiar social expression sensibilities, and the space that is supposed to provide her uttermost comfort, ends up throwing a wrench in the gears of passing where they should’ve elsewise turned without issue.