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I'm failry liberal in comparison to this site and I recently sat in a sensitivity training session for a college. When the topic of using they, them or 'it' came up I put my foot down. I told the trainer that I would respectfully address someone by their position or relationship to my jo- professor, student, 'end-user,' visitor, etc but that referring to someone as them or it would have gotten me beaten by my parents- my mother in particular. She even acknowledged that those particular pronouns would be fairly disrespectful in a number of settings.
While I do realize that "they" is plural, it's also used in the context of when we don't know a person's gender.
Person 1: "Hey, someone told me something really interesting today!"
Person 2: "Yeah? What did they say?"
So if I'm forced to use a non-binary pronoun, I'd probably go with "they."
What I will NOT do is announce my own pronouns, unless I'm speaking to a blind person who isn't willing to hazard a guess based on the sound of my voice. Otherwise, it just seems incredibly condescending, like I'm telling someone that they're too stupid to know what to call me. I've never been asked, but if I were, I'd tell them "he/his" and be done with it.
I'm failry liberal in comparison to this site and I recently sat in a sensitivity training session for a college. When the topic of using they, them or 'it' came up I put my foot down. I told the trainer that I would respectfully address someone by their position or relationship to my jo- professor, student, 'end-user,' visitor, etc but that referring to someone as them or it would have gotten me beaten by my parents- my mother in particular. She even acknowledged that those particular pronouns would be fairly disrespectful in a number of settings.
When you address someone, you use the second person. That means "you".
No one has ever specified anything other than "you" as far as I know. The "my pronouns" thing is only about how you talk about them to other people.
Listen to this logic:
So the whole club has to change how they introduce themselves to people to accommodate a small minority? Am I understanding this correctly?
I’m surprised how many here quickly and freely agree to modify their behavior in contradiction of reality to accommodate the delusions of a small, mentally ill group. Call yourself a giraffe if it makes you happy but I’m going to call it as I see it. Perpetuating a fairy tale doesn’t really serve anyone well.
Have you all noticed that everybody, especially academics, are now specifying what their "pronouns" are - even normal heterosexual non-transgender people.
e.g "So and so is a Phd in ethnic studies, and his pronouns are he/him/his"
WTF?!
This is not something that people ever did before. This LGBT madness is out of control and has got to stop.
I identify as I, Me, My, & Mine.
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