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Understanding is a meeting in the middle. It’s reasonable to correct the record on how you as an individual would like to be gendered. It’s not reasonable to expect all of society to drop the use of a word that is colloquially accepted as gender neutral. At a certain point, your outrage is the antisocial behavior.

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LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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- redwattlebird@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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  I think you’ve completely misunderstood what everyone is saying because that’s exactly what everyone you’ve responded to, including myself, is saying that they would do.
  
  Tailor their words for that conversation but move on to a different group of people from there. Not permanently tailoring the way they speak because it is highly unlikely that they’ll engage again.
  
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- Classy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I think the amount of people who either (1) do not know the term to be gender neutral or (2) purposefully use it as a gendered term to anger people is less than 1%, honestly.
  
  I live in a pretty conservative area, and I’m not exactly a leftist either, and I’ve never seen guys used in any way other than just as a generic for “you all”
  
  it’s also just not important enough to die on a hill for
  
  Cool, so we agree it’s silly to get so strung up over it, huh? Of course people tailor their language, it happens constantly. If someone is going to go out of their way to construe a perfectly normal part of speech as me being malignant and demand that I change my behavior for their benefit I’m going to tell them to fuck off, personally. If someone is respectful and asks tactfully…sure, I’ll adjust for them. Though internally I’ll be judging them for being a snowflake.
  
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  - LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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    rektdeckard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    How does a snowflake screw in a lightbulb? They hold the bulb, and the whole world revolves around them.
    
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