Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel): It's good manners to let trans folks be happy.

It's good manners to let trans folks be happy.

The Illustrated Book of Manners: A Manual of Good Behavior and Polite Accomplishments, 1866 twitter.com/yesterdayspr...

This is why I can't understand why people have a problem pronouns. If a person tells me that they would prefer to be referred to as she (or whichever they prefer), then I use she. It's just polite

not just good manners, apparently it's morally Correct according to utilitarianism

It shows that today's reactionaries are more repressive than the freaking *Victorians*, and that's saying something!

Harmless Fancy is my ye olde Victorian name.

The 19th century called and it says trans rights.

It’s real btw. Here’s the link to the full book. It’s page 33

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Yep, thanks, I know. It was shared by the OP. The message is also real: It's good manners to let trans folks be happy.

Here's the whole book. The above is page 32 archive.org/details/illu...

The illustrated book of manners: a manual of good behavior and polite accomplishments : De Valcourt,...archive.org viii, [9]-490 p. 18 cm

Oh sorry I didn’t see the down-thread, just the linked to the cursed bird site.

@domesticalyx.bsky.social

@sulmatul.bsky.social Hey old fashioned manners books are pro-Utena-can-dress-like-a-prince. Great news!

That waist doesn’t look convenient to the wearer… 😳

The engraver had a hard time imagining what that would look like, though.

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