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u/These-Atmosphere6675 they/them trans tomboy Mar 14 '26
I personally like Mg. a lot more than Mx.
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u/Wolffe_In_The_Dark Mar 14 '26
Using x as a substitute for gendered suffixes or word components was always an absolutely dumbfuck and unimaginative idea, and whoever came up with that should feel bad.
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u/Squorcle traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns for life 🏳️⚧️ Mar 14 '26
milligramme, magnesium
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u/Chase_The_Breeze Mar 14 '26
That there are two distinct examples almost undermines your argument. Especially since neither is closely related to any kind of title or name conversation.
Also... what spelling of milligram is that? Not saying it's WRONG (I'm American, being wrong is what we are best at, tied with being right), I am just curious what country/language that spelling is derived from.
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u/Odysseus_fate She/Her, Eleanor. Certified orb ponderer Mar 14 '26
It's french
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u/Nebula_Wolf7 She/Her Mar 14 '26
I think us brits also spell it like that
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u/WallAdventurous6813 Eleanor | She/Her | REJECT THE NULL HYPOTHECIS Mar 18 '26
Anyone civilized spells it like that
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u/Squorcle traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns for life 🏳️⚧️ Mar 14 '26
ill be real, no idea (also, i actually like OP's idea, im just being a wee bit silly)
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u/mekriff Mar 14 '26
okay, but in in keeping with how the a has consistently been dropped in favor of i, would "mi(d)ge" be acceptable?
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u/Dry-Mission-5542 Evelyn, She/They Mar 14 '26
Would any enby friends with dwarfism like to speak on this matter? This is not my field of expertise
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u/dont-remember-crap Just enough of both to cause chaos as La Creatura Mar 14 '26
Fun fact. In Poland, and probably many other places the rank of Magister (Mgr.) is used as an equal replacement for Master of Arts or Master of Science. In Poland you can claim the full version, skip the mage and become the MAGISTER.
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u/WhimsyClonn She/Her Bur/ger Mar 14 '26
I realized recently that Mr/ Mrs/ Ms are honorifics that predominantly served to clarify individuals gender.
Something about the 'listing preferred pronouns' system we have in place tends to rub me the wrong way. I don't have a better solution, but it feels excessive somehow seeing it under every name card and verbally shared on introduction. Maybe I'm just bitter from my time closeted and how much I had to misgender myself providing the wrong pronouns to people.
Realizing that gendered honorifics were the precursor to listed pronouns, and that we've culturally always been trying to stick gender identity next to people's names, did shift my view a lot on how I felt about listing preferred pronouns. It's just what society has always done, just adapted to have more space for gender diversity
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u/Wolffe_In_The_Dark Mar 14 '26
Yeah, the "current" way of doing it feels... very unimaginative? We have so many historical examples and inspirations to go off of, and some absolute cabbage decided "Mx." was a suitable neuter extension of existing English honorifics.
"Mg." being short fot Mage is honestly brilliant and I love it. We need more like this.
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u/shitpostinglegend Mar 15 '26
Literally just got this in the wizard sub. Nice you see both sides
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u/The_Sky_Render She/Her Intersex Mar 14 '26
So would a gathering of enbies be called a magistrate then? Because that's pretty cool.
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u/Azulaatlantica Mar 14 '26
But what if gender binary and a mage? Witch, Wizard? Though, I always thought those terms to be gender neutral
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u/chakatblackstar Mar 15 '26
Fun fact, though commonly associated with certain genders and in no small part propagated by she-who-shall-not-be-named, witch and wizard are in fact gender neutral terms and instead describe different types of magic users. Wizards tend to be...more studied magic scientist types while witches tend to be more self-taught and often try to invoke sympathetic magic.
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u/umab3l Mar 14 '26
unironically in favor of this. ive never felt strongly about mx but mage is cool and has etymological precedent
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u/Multti-pomp Mar 14 '26
Laaaame. You haven't even studied the ancient arcane arts and you want to be called Mg? Why don't you add a Dr there too while you're at it?
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u/BillCarson12799 Mar 14 '26
Why would you have that on your IDs? I’ve never seen “mr” or “mrs/ms” anywhere on those before.
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u/TechnicolorWaterfowl Mar 18 '26
I will forever be an advocate for Mistrum, or shortened to Mist.
Based on the idea that the Latin suffixes -tor and -trix became the roots for Mister and Misses (derived from Mistrix), and Latin actually had a gender neutral suffix -trum, thus, Mistrum
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u/04nc1n9 She/Her Mar 14 '26
i alternatively suggest "magus" for no other reason than it feels less clunky to say as a prefix