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> You want to know how to address someone? Sure, in English polite forms have "Sir/Madam" variations I've got long hair but other than that you'd be hard press
by jemmyw 1y ago
> You want to know how to address someone? Sure, in English polite forms have "Sir/Madam" variations
I've got long hair but other than that you'd be hard pressed to mistake me for a woman. Yet 2 times recently I've been addressed as "madam" in stores. Both times they realized immediately, one person just didn't address me again. The other continued to call me madam and obviously didn't know what to do as I hadn't corrected. I was just thinking at the time it's odd how it makes you feel something even though it's just an innocuous word and I've got no reason to care.
- ben_w 1y agoMm. Everyone's different on that front. Myself, I don't have a strong sense of gender identity, and I generally see myself as "Ben" rather than "Mr": while I have male bits, if I woke up one day to find they were everted, the only things I'd be worried about would be the implications of having been subject to non-consensual surgery, and the social danger due to endemic sexism: A decade ago, I was opening my front door and overheard a kid who was clearly confused saying "mommy mommy is that a boy or a girl?" about me. It amused me at the time. On the other hand, when I was a teen, someone got half way through a wolf-whistle before they saw my beard.