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[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Don't use it then.

The only time you would ever need to use someone's pronouns is when they're not part of the conversation anyway.

I couldn't care less what people refer to me as if I'm not there.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

"I was with Dan the other day. They forgot their keys at home. They said they had to go back to get them."

Literally not hard at all?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The only time you would ever need to use someone’s pronouns is when they’re not part of the conversation anyway.

no? it would be weird to use in a one-on-one conversation, true. but it is fairly common to use the third person pronoun of someone during a group conversation, even while they are there

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 days ago

I don't do this, and growing up was taught that it was rude to refer to someone by anything other than their name in a group conversation.