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Re:Speaking Freely: Why I resigned from the Canadian Broadca... by 908B64B197 on Monday January 03, 2022 @03:31PM (#29786376)
I don't hate the idea of explicitly stating pronouns, especially online, because I had to interact with people with particularly ambiguous names (happens often in very international environments).

Even here in America, if you get an email from "Taylor Something" and their intranet picture is a houseplant how do you respond?

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Re:Speaking Freely: Why I resigned from the Canadian Broadca... by Lio on Monday January 03, 2022 @05:59PM (#29788284)
If you get an email directly from “Taylor” and you want to reply you won’t have use their pronouns anyway.

It’s only if you’re referring to them to a third person that you’ll need them.

You should still be able to refer to them with without explicitly using any pronouns even then.

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