CatmanV2
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I think that's quite unusual. Done in the pub for a laugh is easy to shrug off, If someone was just consistently misgendered - say at school, the workplace or at home - I think many people would find it corrosively upsetting.
How would you have felt if the bullies had decided to do this to you consistently when you arrived a secondary school?
We should just all speak Estonian and the problem would go away.
Well I was bullied, pretty much constantly from primary school until 18.
Try as I might, I can't honestly find it in myself to be more upset about being misgendered than any of the other things that were said about me that were untrue.
For the record I have no issue at all with anyone else making a point about their preferred pronouns but honest mistakes...
It also helps with people called Chris or Nic or Joan (that one might seem odd to most of you but I work with a lot of Spaniards) that you’ve only communicated by email with.
...as might happen in the above, should, surely, not cause more than the mildest of irritations? Sure if it happens regularly (and each and every occasion is an honest mistake) I guess it might be a tad wearing but, well, I dunno. Perhaps that's my problem?
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