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    It costs people nothing to use someones’ preferred pronouns and yet here we are.

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      What if they think men and women should be referred to by different pronouns?

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        I think you mean “what if the men and women think men and women should be referred to by different pronouns”. Can’t use “they” any more, remember.

        But everyone is free to think whatever they want, so long as they don’t go around telling other people how to live their lives when it’s not hurting anyone.

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          No, you can still use they when referring to multiple people or those of unknown sex.

          Might want to brush up on your English if this is news to you.

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            They is grammatically correct for a single person so I’m not even kind of sure what you mean here

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              I never said it was incorrect. The problem is forcing people to use ‘they’ when they’d rather use he or she.

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                The poster above me here is absolutely right, she shouldn’t be forced to use the wrong pronouns. It might make her uncomfortable.

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                  Yeah, nah. I grew out of that phase in elementary school.

                  You can call me whatever you want, I’m not some child who lets it affect me.

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    This is nothing but a distraction from lecterngate. Sarah Huckabee Sanders used taxpayer funds to pay for a personal trip, then had the Republican party expense a $20k podium from a company that has never sold a podium before to try to hide the embezzlement.

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    “Am I so out of touch? No, it’s the people who fail to fit into my narrow, regressive worldview who are wrong.”

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    NASA changed its nomenclature to say human space flight (as opposed to just “manned” space flight) in the 90’s, you transphobic Christian nationalist.

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    What were they thinking?

    Oh shit, I just used the gender-neutral pronoun “they.”

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    Reminds me of when North Carolinas own oceanic and atmospheric agency published a study on the negative effects climate change will have on their coastal towns, and what they need to do in response to that.

    So their state government responded by banning the use of terms like climate change.

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    To conservatives, cultural war is a real issue. It’s not like they care about anything else, as far as their concerned they’re going to heaven one way or another. Why plan for today when you can be happy about imaginary tomorrows.

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      If they don’t keep people fighting about who can marry who or who should have control over medical decisions, people might start fighting about things that will threaten their wealth and power.

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    So what they are saying is that it’s perfectly fine to address every man as “her, she” incorrectly, every time. Perfect.

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    Rather than ‘pregnant people’ or ‘pregnant person,’ use ‘pregnant women’ or ‘pregnant mom.’

    And if she’s a child? And is she a mom while still pregnant?