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Don’t you risk adding fuel to a pointless fire?
by pigeonhole123 5y ago
Don’t you risk adding fuel to a pointless fire?
- vidarh 5y agoI tend to see it the opposite way: If it adds fuel, then that is evidence it's not pointless. If people just disagree and find it silly (and I did myself at one point), then that's their business. But using someones preferred pronoun is no different from trying to get their name right. It's basic respect and courtesy. That so many people take offence at being asked to show basic respect for others is the reason why so many people who have no personal use for putting our pronouns anywhere increasingly do so, to help normalise it. People don't need to like that. But if that's enough to fuel a fire, then let it burn.