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Originally Posted by Tcoat
You also know that I myself have reported derogatory posts about peoples sexual orientation several times (remember the Uber commercial debacle?) .
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I can tell I'm approaching the "get of the lawn" stage of my life because I'm tired of the whole thing.
Example, my son works with a very obvious female who says she doesn't "want to be gender identified" and if you refer to her with a female pronoun she quickly reminds you she goes by "they".
Now, if you were born with the markers that make you female, and want to be identified as male, as long as you act/dress the part I'm good with calling you he/him. Other way around as well.
if you want to be identified as "they" I'm good with that as well as long as you either 1) have active multiple personalities or 2) have mastered cell splitting to the point where you can replicate yourself into multiple forms.
But we have a perfectly good word in the language for someone that is not a he or she and I'm happy to call you "it", but using "they" in an improper context is offensive to me so I'm not going to use it. So it's either it or she, but I'm not going to call you they.