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> It's a base level of respect to address people as the ask to be addressed. The student was within reason to complain but it never should have gone past a dire
by throw_m239339 5y ago
> It's a base level of respect to address people as the ask to be addressed. The student was within reason to complain but it never should have gone past a direct conversation w/ admin on standards of behavior.
Depends. If you ask me to use "Allah" as your pronoun, as an hypothetical Muslim, it could violate my religious rights and I might not want to do it. The whole made up pronouns thing has absolutely nothing to do with correct English.
- pstuart 5y agoAppropriate Silicon Valley clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obagb7RQeYo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obagb7RQeYo > whole made up pronouns thing has absolutely nothing to do with correct English she/he are not made up, and language is constantly changing based on what's being spoken by the population. Considering that there's a lot of hate being fomented against trans people, I'm assuming the professor was passive aggressively saying "fuck you" to that person's stated identity.
- throw_m239339 5y ago> Considering that there's a lot of hate being fomented against trans people, I'm assuming the professor was passive aggressively saying "fuck you" to that person's stated identity. A simple solution would be to eliminate all gendered pronouns in English and stick to "they/them" for everybody. Made up pronouns are an absurd trend.