Re:Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words”
by sazz on Thursday April 21, 2022 @02:46AM
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As a child, I had a very high voice. On the way to my fiftieth birthday, as a man with a full beard, I still sometimes have this high voice. I feel like a trillion times people have called me "Miss" on the phone. I usually wait a few seconds and politely correct them.
In most cases, people have apologized directly and the conversation moved on. In very few cases they moved on without apologizing. In virtually no cases did they ignore my hint.
Yes, there are rude and ignorant people out there. And they will always be.
From my experience, it is manners that lead to better interaction, not syntactical changes in language. Because you can't create empathy with neologisms.
And the best way to deal with rude people - stay away from them ;-)
IDK, if every time you encountered someone they referred to you by the wrong name, after being corrected every time they do so, that wouldn't affect you? I think that if someone consistently feminized my name and used feminine pronouns for me over the course of multiple interaction I would get pretty pissy, downright hostile.