this stems from another conversation on this site.
a commenter used the pronoun "they" because they didn't know the gender. Commenter could have looked at an inactives users profile to see the pronouns were she/her, but they didn't.
So the question is: is it wrong to use pronoun "they" when you simply don't know or needed to know the gender? I was told that "liberals" use it aggressively/offensively to trans people, but most liberals i know aren't smart enough to know about pronouns and how to use them properly.
I've been using "they" to admit gender ignorance all the fuckin time so im just trying to see if im wrong or not. Because ive never heard of this before. and i thought this site had told me everything by now lol
edit: thank you all for the comments. ill certainly try to remember to check pronouns of inactive accounts before i talk about them, but we need to be able to debate from a reasonable position and jumping to "HOW DARE YOU SAY THEY YOU LIB" isn't going to do shit. Lenin created schools to educate workers, Hexbear is our school. and i fucking love this school.
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Actually I can't see anyone's pronouns on mobile. Voyager doesn't support it, even if I click their profile. I hope it gets patched soon
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Yeah
in this case, the pronoun wasn't presented to them directly because the person being discussed wasn't commenting. they would have to find the profile or the profile link and check it. forcing everyone to do all research before going neutral is silly to me.
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yea that's where it spawned from. Attacking people for innocuous(at worst) terms is a great way for us to not be taken seriously.
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yeah this would be a big improvement