Pronouns. I've never understood the relevance.
Bear with me here...
Someone knocks on the door, I answer it and the wife might ask "what do they want?" There is therefore an established pronoun for use when we don't know the gender of the person in question.
When you are actually speaking to someone though, you don't address them with gendered pronouns, we say e.g. what do you want?
You only need gendered pronouns when talking ABOUT someone, not in their presence, so all the fuss must be people taking offence on behalf of someone else, so how can someone actually be 'misgendered'?
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da5id <YOUR SIG HERE>, Sun 8 Aug 2021, 14:40,
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Sir is not a pronoun, it’s a common noun, but in terms of linguistic and communicative function it serves much the the same purpose as a pronon.
“Put your knickers back on sir, or you’ll get skid marks on your dress.”
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 8 Aug 2021, 15:04,
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The significance of pronouns
Is control. It puts you on the back foot and makes you feel slightly disorientated you use language at odds with your perceptions.
Which of these sounds more reasonable?
1: She should not compete in the female category in the Olympics
2: He should not compete in the female category in the Olympics
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