• Pistcow
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    -97 hours ago

    Ok, hear me out, super supportive, but I had an issue when a friend’s husband wanted me to use “their.”

    • @[email protected]
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      6 hours ago

      So you’re not, in fact, “super supportive” at all then, are you, and are not, in fact, worth hearing out… 🙄

    • @Jackthelad
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      05 hours ago

      Don’t use it then.

      The only time you would ever need to use someone’s pronouns is when they’re not part of the conversation anyway.

      I couldn’t care less what people refer to me as if I’m not there.

      • @Nurse_Robot
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        45 hours ago

        “I was with Dan the other day. They forgot their keys at home. They said they had to go back to get them.”

        Literally not hard at all?

      • @kinsnik
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        35 hours ago

        The only time you would ever need to use someone’s pronouns is when they’re not part of the conversation anyway.

        no? it would be weird to use in a one-on-one conversation, true. but it is fairly common to use the third person pronoun of someone during a group conversation, even while they are there

        • @Jackthelad
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          05 hours ago

          I don’t do this, and growing up was taught that it was rude to refer to someone by anything other than their name in a group conversation.