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.
how often do you click on any link in any conversation?
How often do you ask bad faith questions?
that wasn't bad faith. at least one other person suggested userlinks also contain our pronouns, and a few others agreed with us.
the accessibility compliance tool the devs use is flawed and falsely fails some implementation of links opening in new tabs, which means we have to do 3 times as many operations (i don't have a middle mouse button) to get to the content of a link or forget and the back button doesn't return us to the comment we were reading so i've been trained by the ux to not click on links in comments