> If you tell me to call you Lord Joseph, is it really so wrong for me to ask you for your credentials? If you tell me to call you "Lord Joseph", I'll say sure

> If you tell me to call you Lord Joseph, is it really so wrong for me to ask you for your credentials? If you tell me to call you "Lord Joseph", I'll say sure, and oblige, as I would for "foobar", "zeveb", or any reasonably pronounceable nickname without obviously undesirable connotations. Which kinds of credentials would be relevant for me to accept to call you the way you want to be called? > If I refer to you as 'him,' not 'His Lordship,' am I really the one in the wrong? "His Lordship" would arguably be quite a mouthful... But certainly, for the much less convoluted case of people asking to be called by their favorite single-syllable gender or genderless pronoun, I would think that it would not be courteous to use one that you don't like. How exactly would my perception of your gender be more relevant than your own?