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Originally Posted by Teen Idle
I really don't know what to say, but thank you for triggering me along with IndieVisible. I should be ashamed to have wanted some decent amount of respect. I will from now on post every where what my pronouns are and then get into discussions like this where I, the minority (of course) is wrong and everyone else is right.
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Inedible and I suggested that you state your preference for plural pronouns clearly and conspicuously, in two places - the status and the profile. We did not suggest that you insert anything in every post of yours. The status is inserted automatically. As I said already, it would take you 5 seconds tops.
You are being quite intentional in twisting what was suggested by Inedible and me. That intentional twisting is along the lines of provoking people. So I will not post on your threads any more since there is nothing else I can tell you. I do have sympathy for your being part of a small minority for which the language itself does not have enough tools of recognition (as Inedible pointed out, the use of the plural pronouns in reference to an individual, though commonplace, is still grammatically wrong). I do have sympathy for that. But not for provocations.
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Originally Posted by Teen Idle
Actually, no one has assumed my age. People have ASKED. Quite ground breaking, I know.
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You don't realize that the people who assumed your age did so without asking? That their assumptions are invisible to you, for the most part? If 10 folks asked and 99 folks assumed, the only visible part is that 10 folks asked.