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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Go off queen" is 100% a thing, which means that "go off king" isn't just a neutral idiomatic expression, but a gendered idiomatic expression.

[–] a_blanqui_slate@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not saying it's not a thing, but I have literally never seen it used, and I couldn't find an ngram viewer with a corpus end date after 2019.

It would never occur to me to say "go off queen" , in much the same way it would never occur to me to say "yass slay king" regardless of the gender of the referent, making them both gender neutral in my use.