• Jackthelad@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Don’t use it then.

    The only time you would ever need to use someone’s pronouns is when they’re not part of the conversation anyway.

    I couldn’t care less what people refer to me as if I’m not there.

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      13 hours ago

      “I was with Dan the other day. They forgot their keys at home. They said they had to go back to get them.”

      Literally not hard at all?

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      14 hours ago

      The only time you would ever need to use someone’s pronouns is when they’re not part of the conversation anyway.

      no? it would be weird to use in a one-on-one conversation, true. but it is fairly common to use the third person pronoun of someone during a group conversation, even while they are there

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        13 hours ago

        I don’t do this, and growing up was taught that it was rude to refer to someone by anything other than their name in a group conversation.