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Have you seen anyone personally take offense As a parent of a teenage child, I see it reasonably often between teens and "boomers". Teens absolutely use offen

Have you seen anyone personally take offense As a parent of a teenage child, I see it reasonably often between teens and "boomers". Teens absolutely use offense of misused pronouns as a weapon against older folks. But in fairness, older folks also refuse to use preferred pronouns as a weapon back. But, of course, this is all typical generational strife, and the pronouns are mostly an irrelevant detail to the actual hostility.

TheOtherHobbes 6y ago
The actual hostility is key. So many social and cultural interactions are covers for hostility of various kinds that attempting to sanitise a relatively small subset is bound to fail. Hostility runs on a spectrum from over-reaction caused by previous trauma to outright aggressive narcissism and sociopathy. Unfortunately we don't have the social sophistication to reliably identify and call out hostility, or to accurately parse the difference between conscious ill intent, unconscious hostility and ill intent, over-sensitivity, personality disorder issues, criminal issues, and other forms of power play.