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Oh, come on. Stating pronouns can be really helpful at times. It’s not always just virtue signaling.
by vlz 4y ago
Oh, come on. Stating pronouns can be really helpful at times. It’s not always just virtue signaling.
- rastignack 4y agoHow did we manage to live thousands of years without. I guess we had names.
- martin1b 4y agoThis!
- eddsh1994 4y ago
- vlz 4y agoWell, for thousands of years we lived in small homogenous communities with only a handful of names. We also had very rigid gender norms. As times change we now live in more open communities with thousands of different names and looser gender norms. I oftentimes cannot easily guess the pronoun from a name.
- halfmatthalfcat 4y agoWe lived a long time without having to use honorifics yet we do now and are even publicly shamed for not doing so. Humanity and the language we use is a constantly evolving thing.
- Macha 4y agoAre we? My impression was English language honorifics were going out of fashion. People are more likely to say Tom or Tom Smith than Mr. Smith these days
- halfmatthalfcat 4y agoDr, Your Honor, etc.
- yellowapple 4y agoIndeed, names like "Alex", "Pat", and "Taylor".
- rastignack 4y agoAlex and Pat are diminutives. I would understand if only people with names like Taylor did state their gender though.
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- Iv 4y agoAs a foreigner I find that great to be able to know if some of the more uncommon American names are male or female.
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