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It's only confusing if one is ignorant about pronouns. It's not hard in practice. Person 1: Where is emy? Person 2: Oh she, is over there. Points Person 3: h
by millzlane 1y ago
It's only confusing if one is ignorant about pronouns. It's not hard in practice.
Person 1: Where is emy?
Person 2: Oh she, is over there. Points
Person 3: hey person 1, emy doesn't refer to herself as she..
Person 2: oh I'm sorry. I had no idea about Emy and their pronouns...Hey person 1, Emy is right over there.
I find it easier if you refer to people by their names (preferred or otherwise) and just default to gender neutral terms like "they/them". Because it not a hard thing to do.
- whatevaa 1y agoThis is how you get people hating you. Expecting special treatment from others.
- saubeidl 1y agoWhat special treatment? Why are you so hateful over a little word? Is there nothing more important going on in your life? Nothing else to be upset about?
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- whatevaa 1y agoCorecting others. I'm not hateful, I don't like nitpicking and searching for problems when there aren't any. Yes, I believe pronouns are invented problem, and thus will dismiss this as not important. If you think is is hate, you haven't experienced hate. A lot of people think the same, even if they don't express that online. The only person who hates anything here is you.
- saubeidl 1y agoYou literally talked about hating people over their pronouns in your previous post.
- whatevaa 1y agoMy bad, I expressed myself badly. I don't hate anybody, just indifferent. I usually refer to unfamiliar people more officially anyway, so this doesn't even affect me. But I remember widespread cancel culture over issues like this, and I can't help but feel that it helped stoke the fire of hate which other people are expressing.
- saubeidl 1y agoDon't you think the example in the OP is a much more egregious example of cancel culture? Here's my personal opinion fwiw: I don't really care about pronouns either way. That being said, I find it silly that people get so worked up about them and I feel like it doesn't hurt me to just go along with people's small requests out of politeness, like I would with any number of other things.
- kelseyfrog 1y agoWhy choose that pronouns are the problem and not your reaction to them? It costs nothing to refer to someone how they want to be.
- whatevaa 1y agoThe example given contains an example of interrupting and correcting another person. You need to keep track of it, it cannot be inferred. I does cost something, even if a little.
- grumio 1y agocorrecting is part of human communication. it happens all the time, nothing personal.
- petre 1y agoWastes people's time with useless interruptions for made up conventions. Wearing a hat at all times and using thy/thee to refer to the second person singular is not even weird in this context, because it does not externalize pronpun usage onto others.
- saubeidl 1y agoSure, but we do that all the time for all sorts of made up conventions. We say "please" and "thank you". We ask people how they're doing as a greeting, when we don't care and they know we don't care. It's useless, but it's also just basic common courtesy and politeness.
- petre 1y agoProbably, but I'd rather use please, thank you and how are you than learn a bunch of made up pronouns which make no sense to me and match each to a different person.
- kelseyfrog 1y ago