[19ylram49]

> Q9: Do I have to use pronouns I’m unfamiliar or uncomfortable with (e.g., neopronouns like xe, zir, ne... )?

>

> Yes, if those are stated by the individual.

Yikes.

I’m 100% in support of all gender identities, sexual orientations, races, etc., and I’ll fight for everyone’s rights and well-being, but this is insanity.

It’s one thing restrict offensive language but it’s a whole different beast to mandate specific language.

Nope. Nope. Nope. I’m not doing it.

Sorry not sorry.

[cmrx64]

Not doing what? Being 100% supportive as stated and addressing people respectfully? Seems strange to express displeasure with a corporate policy about a website by being disrespectful to unrelated individuals.

[19ylram49]

> Seems strange to express displeasure with a corporate policy about a website by being disrespectful to unrelated individuals.

What are you even going on about? Whom have I disrespected?

Allow me to repeat myself: It’s one thing restrict offensive language but it’s a whole different beast to mandate specific language.

If, e.g., you tell me to not refer to a certain group of folks using a particular racially offensive term, that’s fine and pretty reasonable, but if you tell me that I must refer to a certain group of folks using a term that you or they chose simply because you or they said so, as far as I’m concerned, we’re slowly walking ourselves into a dictatorship. For the first option, I can simply not do anything and avoid being a “bad” person, but for the second option, I’m implicitly a “bad” person if I don’t explicitly do as told (in this case, aka, ordered).

There’s no way I could ever accept that. Nope. No way.

[anp]

How do you feel about using someone's name?

[fstopmick]

I think the argument boils down to fundamentally restructuring the syntax of our language to the point where pronouns are now individual identity-level constructs. I won't take a position, but I will say that this restructuring is expensive and confuses the hell out of me.

[neonate]

You might want to be getting your site back up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21252544.

[fstopmick]

LOL thanks, nice blip of traffic there pushing my little VM to its limits.