You can certainly ask people to refer to you how you’d like to be addressed. The problem is it’s no longer a choice. ‘Use my pronouns or else.’
It’s this crap that propelled Jordan Peterson into the limelight. All he said was ‘you can ask me to use your pronouns, but I won’t be coerced into doing so.’
As for Lovato, I reckon it’s as simple as she was fading into obscurity, getting a bit chubby and she went ‘nonbinary’ or ‘asexual’ or whatever the fuck in an attempt to grab a headline.
You can certainly ask people to refer to you how you’d like to be addressed. The problem is it’s no longer a choice. ‘Use my pronouns or else.’
It’s this crap that propelled Jordan Peterson into the limelight. All he said was ‘you can ask me to use your pronouns, but I won’t be coerced into doing so.’
As for Lovato, I reckon it’s as simple as she was fading into obscurity, getting a bit chubby and she went ‘nonbinary’ or ‘asexual’ or whatever the fuck in an attempt to grab a headline.