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Just Say Their Pronouns

crossdreamers:

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Kristen Pizzo makes a strong argument for why you should respect people’s pronouns over at Medium:

If you are going to grumble about how hard it is to adjust, think about it as analogous to any of these situations:

  • When your friend gets married and goes by a new last name
  • When the year ends and you have to write a new year on everything you sign
  • When your Pokemon evolves and has a new name

If these are too abstract for you, remember that the bottom line is that none of this is about you.

When you make a big deal about how difficult it is to adjust to using new pronouns or names, you are telling the nonbinary person in question that their existence is an inconvenience.

Stop thinking about how “awkward” the singular pronoun ‘they’ feels on your tongue and think about them for two seconds.

Yepp, those are the main points! Just be a polite, kind and decent human being.

Illustration: nadia_bormotova