Another supererogatory announcement

Headlines – another person comes out as self-obsessed and expecting us to be interested in xir self-obsession.

Demi Lovato has announced they have a non-binary gender identity.

This is of no interest. There is no need for people to make “announcements” about themselves this way. It doesn’t matter. It’s not significant. People’s custom-built Selves are of no interest.

https://twitter.com/ddlovato/status/1394913215994155009

Says it all, doesn’t it – “I’m so happy to share more of my life with you all.” No, don’t be happy to do that – recoil from it with scorn and loathing. Don’t look ever more into the self, look away from the self, at everything there is out there to explore and think about. Also don’t be “proud” to identify as something meaningless. Say you’re gender-nonconforming if you must say something, but say it briskly and then step away from the microphone and do something useful.

The pop singer will use the pronouns they and them to describe themselves, to “best represent the fluidity I feel in my gender expression”.

Or rather to draw extra attention and flattery and exclamations of stunning and brave.

The Guardian goes on to knock itself out using “they” and “their” for paragraph after paragraph, and then everybody takes 47 curtain calls in an empty theater.

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