So Griffin McElroy was selected as one of Forbes’ 30 under 30 and I just want everyone to appreciate the photo of him on the article
Here it is as it appears in a tweet. It’s a big bussinessy type deal so you’re probably expecting the rest of the pic is just him smiling normal with a nice button down or something. Well.. here’s the full pic:
To the people who say “alternative pronouns were only invented on Tumblr”:
I take it you’ve never heard of thon/thons/thonself? That’s understandable. It’s been a flop… for over 100 years.
Charles Crozat Converse coined thon/thons/thonself in the late 1800s at most.
Sources seem to be mixed on its actual coinage year, but again, it’s agreed to be the 1880s at most. He did actually publish the coining in 1884, though. (Wikitionary says 1858, but that’s the only place I see 1858?)
thedaysaltsavedmylife said: lmao and they/them have been used as singular pronouns for seven hundred years but ya know who needs facts when you can just buy a fedora
Other gender neutral pronouns that were invented outside of, or even predate, Tumblr (list is far from comprehensive, these are just used more widely, have historical significance, and/or are in print):
Spivak pronouns, originally invented 1975, and used in online communities for a while. Ey/em/eir/eirs/emself (the Elverson set). (There’s also a few variants that popped up later). There’s actual publications using these; they were the standard after singular they until recently
Ve/ver/vis/vis/verself - proposed by the writer Keri Hulme in the 1980s. Used by Greg Egan in the science fiction novel Distress, published 1995.
Hu/hum/hus/humself (from ‘human’ I think) was used for a bit by Sasha Newborn, starting 1982
The coinage of the ze and xe pronoun sets is uncertain as far as I can tell, but variants on the ze pronoun sets are the second most popular gender neutral pronouns currently, after singular they. The Random House Dictionary puts the coinage of ze or zie in 1970-1975, noting an etymological derivation from German Sie, which sounds potentially inaccurate to me, since there was pushback against similarity to Sie from the genderqueer community
Xe is usually considered a derivative of ze, but it appears in the Unitarian Universalist magazine UU World in May 1973, before ze was in common use. It’s possible xe was coined independently multiple times
Nounself pronouns are the only ones that seem to have originated on tumblr, from the overlap of the otherkin and nonbinary communities (though like the modern otherkin community started to emerge in the 1960s so still not entirely a “tumblr thing”)
okay so like this whole post is great but ngl the only thing we can keep thinking about and chuckling at rn is “who needs facts when you can just buy a fedora”
THEY CANCELED THE WHOLE MUSICAL INSTEAD OF JUST HIRING ACTORS WHO WEREN’T WHITE
Wow
As much as racial diversity is a good thing, you’re not gonna find an entire cast of acting Egyptians in New York…
do you, um… do you understand how large and diverse new york is? between 2008-2012, there were 39,000+ egyptians living in new york, new jersey, and long island. that number has probably only increased. it’s not difficult for me to imagine that many of them are either working actors or aspiring actors. and that’s just egyptian immigrants. these roles could be played by people of egyptian descent. i don’t have a statistic for you on that one, but again, new york is densely populated and very diverse. i can’t imagine it would be that difficult to find egyptian actors, especially if you put out a casting call specifically for egyptians
Also there are tons of North African Jews for the Israelites lmao
I personally know off the top of my head enough multi-talented MENA Jews to fully cast a historically accurate Broadway show and you’re telling me that a massive theater company with a large budget and financial backing couldn’t pull something together with an open casting call in New York City?
Bullshit.
imagine being this isolated from the world.
This is one of many consequences of the whitewashing of cities like New York and LA in media, too. When shows and movies consistently portray these cities as containing 95-100% white people even in background shots (hey Fantastic Beasts, how’re you doing!), folks like @minus-three wind up genuinely convinced that that is what those cities look like.
