how to completely own an airline in 3 easy steps

Re:how to completely own an airline in 3 easy steps by RHSeeger on Friday January 20, 2023 @01:39AM (#34449897)

There's a difference, though, between

> This person is female and I'm not comfortable referring to her as 'it' because females are 'she'

and

> This person is a human being, and 'it' is used to refer to objects. It's demeaning to call a human being 'it' and makes me uncomfortable

The later is, at least imo, much more defensible.

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Re:how to completely own an airline in 3 easy steps by komali2 on Friday January 20, 2023 @04:10AM (#34450644)

In the absolutely fantastic novel Too Like Lightning there was a character that is famous for the life-like dolls made of it. Eventually it comes to term with the fact that its preferred identifier is "it" because it feels more comfortable being referred to as a doll, or inhuman, i.e. literally objectified, than it does with being considered traditionally human.

I also feel uncomfortable using "it" as a pronoun, luckily this person seems comfortable with "she/her" as well so we can just use those instead.

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Re:how to completely own an airline in 3 easy steps by mrguyorama on Friday January 20, 2023 @04:01PM (#34459892)

If someone tells me they are happy and comfortable being referred to as "it", and that situation makes me uncomfortable, isn't that a "ME" problem?

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