A good question to ask is: "Who is this really benefitting?"
Comte Sats argument may sound like a stretch at first read, or laughable to the unitiated reader, but some of us has been watching this development over the past several years.
Fact of the matter is that it's a seemingly innocent addition to social interaction that ends up being used as a marker of cult belonging and internal hierarchy and eventually cudgel of socia abuse andl ostracism.
It sounds weird, but some of us have studied group psychology and cult behavior for years, and you don't want to lend the devil your little finger in the current cultural climate.
My two eurocents. Thanks for reading.
"Who is this really benefitting?"
Right now I have good feedback from anonymous users that want to help people refer to them, from internationals whose pronouns of their names or glyphs (Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Indian, etc) are not obvious to the western society, from real LGBT+ users that truly think they are more welcomed to Nostr since the addition and from woman which constantly need to remind man of their gender in a male-centeres Nostr.
Keep in mind that this association of pronouns with a political position is mostly a US thing. Nobody else sees this issue in this way.
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