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Call me stupid but what exactly is the point of people using "them/they" pronouns?

I really don't understand it. I made the mistake of calling someone a she once and her friend corrected me and said "they/them". How the hell am I supposed to know?

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BlueVeins · 22-25

I think the problem here is... more broadly, the belief that being corrected is equivalent to recieving blame for wrongdoing. It's ultimately the burden of non-binary folks to make their deviations from the general population known; it just so happens, unfortunately, that correcting you is the only way they can do that sometimes.

TheSacredOne · 41-45, M

@BlueVeins Yeah but it's ridiculous for someone to get mad at me for not knowing when you are a total stranger to me. I'm sorry but if you look female I will call you a she because that's how you look to me. Same goes for a man.

TheOneyouwerewarnedabout · 46-50, MVIP

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BlueVeins · 22-25

@TheSacredOne Yeah, I'll agree that getting mad about something so trivial and understandable is fairly dumb. It's sort of an unfortunate situation because it takes fairly deliberate effort to make that kind of correction without sounding defensive or smug, but if someone's getting transparently agressive about it, they better dial it back.