If you are “triggered” by simple clear language that doesn’t actually attack you, you are very weak person.
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I listen to NPR because I think it’s important to get out of your echo chamber (ie. I’m not very liberal and I think NPR is a good foil to some of the other news sources that I consume). That said, if you don’t think it’s super blatant, we have very different Overton windows and definitions of blatant.
I miss Rush. He was an original.
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Do you guys actually think it fucking matters? Politics is for losers who couldn’t have actual careers, the two joke parties in the US have no real difference (they disagree on pissant non-issues like abortion and marriage). You gonna go press a little button next to one guy’s name instead of the other cause you see him as being 0.5% less of a moron than the other? Two votes in life matter: your wallet and your feet.
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Agree, and @Bauber, I think it’s fine and one should respect an individual if they want you to refer to them as whatever they want.
But I think it’s silly to get so ridiculous with speech that in normal conversation you can’t say women have periods. It’s just seems over sensitive.
IDK. Media bias sites have it in the middle. That could be biased too though. I think it’s pretty middle of the road for most developed countries. Perhaps not the us though.
I don’t have time to cater to people’s delusions. Catering to mental illness does them zero favors.
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Really? I’ll think it’s strange, and not for me, but I’ll respect a chick that wants me to call her dude or a dude that wants me to call them she.
Seems like an unnecessary possible confrontation to not just respect it and leave it be.
Perhaps my region impacts me here? Minnesotans generally avoid confrontation.
I mean I’m not going to go out of my way for confrontation.
But, if I can’t tell I’m just going to use gender neutral terms. I was raised saying yes mam, no mam, yes sir, no sir. I still do it to this day without thinking even to people younger than me even.
I’m more referring to the people that go berserk s when you accidentally misgender them.
We had one going from female to male in law school. Never had an issue with her - now him. We weren’t friends, but we were cordial to each other. He mainly kept to himself.
He was the type to go crazy if misgendered though. He did it to a fellow classmate and almost got expelled our 2nd year. Had he not been a trans person - I guarantee he would have been expelled.
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This is kinda what I was trying to say haha. We shouldn’t have to bend over backwards to never offend anyone. That’s silly.
If they ask me to call them by a certain gender or they / them, no problem. Otherwise, I go by what they look like. I’ll just avoid gender altogether if I’m not sure (especially if it’s the situation of what looks like a manly lady / feminine man, but actually could be a regular ugly lady).
I think people who get pissed when they are mis-gendered as the gender they appear as, are asses.
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Jeff P. from Survivor should start saying “come on ladies” before a challenge. Only because I think it would be funny as hell, nothing about it should be insulting to a women.
Had I been on the show when he asked "should I keep saying “guys”? I would have said, “say ladies” like the military movies!
Now… I can get on board with this. I don’t much care about insulting men. Definitely “ladies”: she and her are the perfect default pronouns.
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You’re damn near Canadian!
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I moved to the south from upstate NY. Recently I was informed at work that I could be making people uncomfortable by referring to them as “you guys.” Just the way I’ve always addressed a group. You guys, hey guys, look guys, has never had a connotation of gender in my mind. I can’t bring myself to utter y’all. Lol.
I live in the deep south. My family is from here mostly. I have been here since I was 8. I have yet to see anyone get offended from you guys. I was born in Baltimore and still say you guys mostly. I would tell them to fuck off if anyone said they were offended by “you guys”.
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Not ya’ll???
I say ya’ll some too.
My accent used to be more neutral, but it has definitely shifted to the southern draw just not as bad as most.
This got me thinking about addressing those whose pronouns are “they” and “them.” It would seem appropriate to address “them” as you guys or ya’ll.
I prefer, “hey you fuckers”.
Fuckers is gender neutral.
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There’s a big difference between median American and median media coverage. NPR is possibly the second, but a long shot from median America.