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I was raised in southern hospitality, so I know exactly what you’re going through.
I just stopped using pronouns altogether.
“Excuse me” “Thank you” “I appreciate you” “Do you know the way to San Jose”
Turns out 99% of interactions don’t depend on what genitals a person’s rocking. I guess if you’re asked to identify a suspect in a crime it might help? Point being, stop focusing on their crotch and what they’re doing with it 😁 you’ve been trained to be weird about it.
'San' is gendered /s
You is a pronoun btw, just it's only used in specific contexts
ALL of these have pronouns. At least one of them has multiple pronouns! Haha
Didn't be a pendant, and don't laugh after being a pendant. It's condescending and rude.
Sorry, meant gender pronouns.
Everyone with a brain knew what you meant, don't worry.
What are talking about? Said it perfectly fine, are being intentionally dense. Sorry but people like annoy the shit out of.
("it" is also a pronoun")
I can't not address a person, that's incredibly rude.
You can address someone without gendered pronouns... they even gave examples.
I can and do address people without gendered pronouns. OP was suggesting not addressing them with an honorific at all.
That might be the words they said while completely ignoring the examples, but those examples made it abundantly clear that they meant gendered pronouns.
Their examples:
The individual they are speaking to is not formally addressed. I'm not going to address a stranger informally.