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Re:The Trans History of the Wild West by UncleMeat on Friday July 05, 2019 @03:29PM (#20365148)
Wealth, education, and any number of other categories also matter a ton. We exclusively use gender and perhaps age to label people. Why?
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Re:The Trans History of the Wild West by MaxBarraclough on Sunday July 07, 2019 @05:21PM (#20377945)
We don't. We use titles like 'Professor', 'Captain', 'Pastor', 'Doctor', and 'Congressman'.
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Re:The Trans History of the Wild West by iguy on Saturday July 06, 2019 @04:36PM (#20371780)
Because education didn't exist for most of the last few thousand years. Wealth did, but I guess it wasn't worth modifying your speech of every day to encode that today isn't the one day a year you happen to encountered a nobleman.
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