1000% yes! Can I give you 100 likes!

Was always the case, we just get exposed to it more because everyone has easy access to post all over the place. It's more the lazy ones like U and Ur that annoy me.

Curmudgeon Power!

I see this far more with retirees than with younger folks. Phone on speaker, full volume, blabbing it up about nothing regardless of setting. I don’t need forty minutes of Sylvia’s infected toenails.

I'm not even explaining myself. If that's the response I turn and walk on.

People changing their naturally born pronouns and expecting the entire world to magically know something which took them years to find out for themselves and exploding on them is the biggest douche move. Congratulations! You know yourself more fully now, but it doesn't give you the right to be a rude a*****e about it when others don't know. They expect people to know in an instant what took them years, maybe even decades, to find out for themselves. You're an idiot who thinks you now have an excuse to be rude and the masses will back you up because you are "different". People aren't hating on you because your pronouns don't align with the "traditional" sense; they're hating on you because you are an obnoxious, entitled a*****e.

I think it's all stupid. IMO

nobody cares. Live your life but don't expect me to cater to your fantasies.

You don't own grammar. Be mad all you want or just treat me the way you like to be treated.

If we just met for the first time and you inform me of your pronouns, it's easy for me. But if I've known you a couple of decades and you decide to change your pronouns, then bare with me. I have a friend who got married 5 years ago and I still forget to use her married name.

That is WAY too confusing to even address. Give me a f*****g break if I have never even met your a*s before. How the hell should I know what specific flavor you prefer.

I am in a rather queer centric environment and for the life of me this is a situation that has never come up. It's just courtesy. It's not that big of a deal and easy to navigate through social circles. This is such a non-issue that has been blown out of proportion to the point of hostility. People are writing op-eds against using preferred pronouns for newspapers. Declaring they will only use God given pronouns and telling everyone that THIS IS THE HILL TO DIE ON and stop... being polite? Wow. Okay. Minding your manners is now a minefield.

My name was way too popular when I was born. Out of 21 kids in 2nd grade, 11 boys and 2 girls had the same name. I grew up with people calling me the wrong thing because "it was confusing what I wanted to be called". I grew up with people making up nicknames because "I can't keep you all straight". I learned there are 3 types of people. Those who make an effort right off the bat to get it right by asking. Those who correct themselves once they know. If they do it again, its an honest mistake and they will fix it. The last type don't care and won't make an effort because it's all about them. Stop trying to fix the third type. Its about their ego, not about you and you can't fix a narcissist. You actually strengthen their ego by arguing because their brain just sees their opinion matters.

Yes! Mind you - I've danced around not calling a family member anything at all for the past 12 years and no one's caught on yet. As a Canadian I never thought I start using "y'all", but it is a fabulous word! :)

No one (I know, there's ALWAYS one) is getting annoyed if you don't know or forget. People are angry if you deliberately do it or deadname them deliberately. The above idea is pushed a lot be people who resent the very idea that someone can change their gender or even name..

I also find it a bit ironic that the same people who expect their new pronouns to be used instantly by default are also the same people who refuse to call "Twitter" X when that's the platform's new, legal name...

In writing I use the person's name or they/them. I no longer use Ma'am or Sir. It costs me nothing.

All I need to know is your name

This! And also, being called CIS as a heterosexual man, without being asked in advance if it bothers me or not! Kind of a double-standard, in my book...

What I don't understand is that the same people who complain about people getting uncomfortable when you use the wrong pronouns seem to often be the same ones complaining about people introducing themselves with pronouns. Seems like some people just want to get to decide other people's gender for them

Has anyone ever had that happen in real life though? I meet lots of transgender and nonbinary people, and have accidentally misgendered many of them, nobody has ever been angry. And I've asked my trans/nonbinary friends and they also say they never get angry, unless someone keeps repeatedly misgendering them purposefully to hurt them. I think it's just a couple of crazy people who have been filmed and put online, and that's made us think this is common, when it really isn't.

If it's online and I don't know your pronouns, I just default to the ever neutral They/Them until notified

mine are Beer/Whiskey

Or forcing others to declare their pronouns.

There are 2 pronouns when it comes to sex. M or f. Wtf is they

Thank you for this! I have no idea what your pronouns are. But I have no problem with it. Just give me a minute and also a little understanding if i mess up.

I saw a some BBC news interview and the woman being interviewed had a difficult name to pronounce. The interviewer struggled to pronounce her name correctly but instead of showing grace and some humility she choose to humiliate the poor man by repeatedly says "Try again". We do not have an inbuilt ability to know how ALL letters, vowels etc are pronounced depending on their origins and this was just poor. But then again, not surprising of how people react in todays 'I expect you to accomondate ME' society we now live in.

It’s kind to honor a person’s choice whenever possible.

I've not been able to understand this - who says s/he hers/his to a person's face? - I use their name. Pronouns are for when you're referring to them to someone else eg "Lisa did a good job today, I think she's learning quickly' vs " Hey great job Lisa, you learn pretty quick!" - please make it make sense - seriously.

Don't talk about anyone present in the third person....

I have no issue with this except one. My mind cannot process calling a single person by a plural pronoun. I fight to do it every time.

This is what happens when we listen to children.

Just use gender neutral pronouns until you know for sure. Not that hard.

If you feel the need to tell me your pronouns, I'm pretty sure we have nothing to discuss.

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"Dweeb. How long is it gonna take for you infants to learn that your "pronouns" mean nothing at all? I see YOU just fine without them. Jasus, get over yourself."

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I will not adapt. I will irritate you until your therapist refuses to listen to you anymore.

It's just lazy

Corporations have groomed people into believing that taking sick time is a bad thing, that they aren't team players. Then the government started doing the same thing with covid and took away that safety net. STAY HOME when you are sick. If you physically can not then put on a damned MASK for everyone else's sake. It is NOT a sign of weakness, rather a sign of strength.

When my father was in his 70s & 80s, he would get annoyed by the "ageism" shown to him when out in public, at stores and even in the nursing home lived in for the last six months of his life. I'm not saying it's worse than the other "-isms" but it definitely is the one that seems ignored. This isn't about being treated differently because of dementia (how those people are treated is a whole other story), it was a much wider range of behaviours shown to him, including being talked to like he did have dementia, because people would presume he did. He would get frustrated and tell me "they treat me like I'm stupid" when an incident happened. He wasn't, his only crime was being an older person.

We can’t advertise alcohol, pharmaceuticals or nicotine in my country. However, we can advertise gambling. Guess which country has the highest amount of gambling losses? Edit to give more facts… we have HALF the entirety of the worlds slot machines, and the government gets 30% of every dollar put into them. And then add another 40% of tax from the owners of the slot machines for any gains on said slot machines.

Pretending we're all fine when we're not has, in my opinion, acerbated a lot of mental health issues. Better to talk them out then act them.

This is an everybody thinks this thing. It’s making for a hostile purchasing experience.