• SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    18 days ago

    Yes, and the person you replied to said that it doesn’t happen there … if something is absent it doesn’t necessarily make it worse, it just means it’s handled in a different way.

    Like where I live - most people use feminine words for me simply because that’s the toilet I use most of the time. If I wanted to correct them I could do so gently without making a big deal of it

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      17 days ago

      They also complained that it was culture war crap so not sure anyone should trust that they’re coming from a place of honesty and respect on this topic.

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        17 days ago

        Fair point, though I get annoyed sometimes by both sides of the US culture wars so I read it from that standpoint

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          17 days ago

          I simply don’t view people’s preference for pronouns as political.

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            17 days ago

            From my point of view (namely an enby from outside of the US) it does look like that … mostly because it should be a non-issue, yet people who would prefer gender-neutral terms spend a lot of time fussing over it