Talk:Peridot/@comment-26914995-20150925130746/@comment-26914995-20150925204239

she/her pronouns and calling someone a girl are totally different things though (also, tv captions are not written by the crewniverse)? someone can go by she/her and not be a girl, which is... kinda canonically exactly what the gems do. this happens in real life too, i know its a new concept for a lot of people, but it happens.

i feel like people misunderstood what i meant here. what i meant is that people - some people, at least - thought it was ok to ignore everything rebecca sugar had said because of this slip-up (and no, it still doesn't make sense for amethyst to call her homegirl any more than homegrown, since the gems - except steven - have never referred to each other as women/girls before. homegrown, on the other hand, actually sounds like a nickname or insult an earth-born gem would throw at a homeworld gem she didn't like). though i will say that *amethyst* doing this makes more sense than other gems, since she's born and raised on earth and probably understands earth-genders better than the other gems. the concept of gender might not be alien to her the way they are to the other gems.

either way, they're not girls. calling someone a girl because of their pronouns or appearance isn't cool, and that's what people are hurt by.

i know a lot of people are gonna see this as a "technicality"/nitpicking/whatever, but it really isn't. acting like pronouns, appearance and gender are all the same thing erases a lot of people, and is the reason a lot of people go through a lot for being themselves.