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What are gender pronouns and why is it important to use the right ones? (theconversation.com)
2 points by rustoo on Oct 15, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


"1. Don’t assume another person’s gender or gender pronouns 2. Ask a person’s gender pronoun 3. Share your own gender pronoun"

I am a man who dresses like a man and looks like a man. It would annoy me if someone asked for my "gender pronouns", since it would imply that my sex is hard to discern, and I think many other men would feel the same way.


Exactly. I don't move in the sort of crowds where people ask for "gender pronouns," but if someone did, I would find it goofy, at best, and likely offensive.




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