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I'm simply not going to call someone "they", and I consider myself a pretty liberal person. This means your threshold is fairly low. You're allowed to have th
by sgt 7mo ago
I'm simply not going to call someone "they", and I consider myself a pretty liberal person.
This means your threshold is fairly low.
You're allowed to have those opinions, of course. We can talk about other things.
- hananova 7mo agoYou may consider yourself that, but given that you won’t even offer someone the pleasure of addressing them the way they want to be, you aren’t.
- Planktonne 7mo ago> I'm simply not going to call someone "they", and I consider myself a pretty liberal person. An outright refusal to use a common word is not a liberal trait.
- kennywinker 7mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47299506 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47299506 This is you, happily using a singular they. Like every english speaker, you are happy to use it when you don’t know the gender of the person you’re speaking about, or it is irrelevant. If i was to talk about you to someone else i could say “they don’t like using preferred pronouns” because i don’t know your gender. That’s all that’s being asked of you. Don’t assume a gender. If that is uncomfortable, perhaps you should explore that discomfort, instead of running away from it.