King Princess On Meeting Christina Aguilera

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King Princess talks about their experience meeting Christina Aguilera in the studio:

“I love, like, when a Pop Girl is mean.” pic.twitter.com/ODTKjKkfxq
- Pop Crave (@PopCrave) March 8, 2024
“I love when a pop girl is mean,” King Princess (Mikaela Straus) said during an interview

Comments

[misoras]

I always flinch at “it” as a pronoun.

Also, this comes off so insincere… idk if insincere is the word but I don’t like it.

[genbu_no_miko24]

Obvs it's not my place but I'm surprised it is an accepted one cause it always comes off and demeaning and sub-human way to referring to marginalized people. I def it heard a lot when talking about the trans community.

But I guess they wanna take back power?

[colorheartsgrey]

I genuinely wanted to ask about that in here but then got too scared, so I feel a bit better I wasn't the only one wondering

[easily_amused87]

i don't love "it" as pronoun and sometimes question why one would go with "it" but ultimately i do not know what those sorts of internal identity struggles are like. so not my horses, not my rodeo and happy trails

ETA: i dont say this to scold you, just sharing my similar struggle session

[misoras]

lol no worries. I’m sure there’s a reason behind it that I never searched for. My fault ig.

[easily_amused87]

the one ive found is one of purposeful dehumanization- i don't know if that's broad to the use. specifically, ive met a few people who prefer "it" over "they" and that's when i kind of go "well if the point is to be dehumanized then why would you get mad about that happening" but thats the sort of bad faith right wing response i dont want to engage in! i likely just need to train my brain to give less of a shit, i suppose

[misoras]

My second sentence is unrelated to the first 😭

[wonheaux]

some trans/enby people use it and it's a point of contention within our community. i think it's an attempt at reclaiming it, but a lot of us are uncomfortable by it. as much as i try to respect their wishes, i just will not use it/its to refer to them, and i ask them to respect my reasons why. i just defer to they/them. they usually respect that, or at least the older people do.

fyi: i'm not truscum or anything. i do use neopronouns when people want me to. it/its just makes me extremely uncomfortable as a trans person.

[automaticpeople]

I’ve seen some horribly transphobic people refer to trans people as “it”, so that’s what I always think of when I hear it. I’m torn between being respectful and being extremely uncomfortable with calling a human “it”.

[wonheaux]

that's completely understandable. as far as i've seen, most who use it as a pronoun usually list it as a secondary one. i'm sure there are less reasonable people, but i think you're right to feel that way. i don't blame you for not wanting to use it/its to refer to a person.

if they list it secondary, they probably won't care if you don't use it!

[anterrabre]

As someone who has trans family members (who have gotten heat for it) I'm not calling anyone "it." Transpeople are human beings, and "it" is such a dehumanizing term.

[wonheaux]

You're right. I won't either. I was just trying to shine some light on the reasoning. I feel like most of it comes from the trauma stemming from being trans. It can be a lot to handle. :c

[la_petite_singe]

Hard same. Idt I could call a person that. I've never met anyone irl who uses that, and with celebs/internet people it's very easy to just use their name, but if it ever came to that in my actual life...idk. I'd try to be respectful.

[gimmemoarjosh]

It is absurd. I'll say it.

Like, be non-binary all you want and I will respect that and refer to you as "them," but "it"?

So, you're just an object? A thing?

So bizarre but maybe that's just me.

Call me put of touch or give me bad reactions, it is fine. But this is a bridge too far for me, personally.

[goldenhera]

It is dehumanizing which is maybe their thing but I won't refer to someone in that way.

[gimmemoarjosh]

Yeah, not a fan of it. I couldn't participate.