But if it’s a requested change, how put out are you by it? It’s still the same human that you respect and appreciate. And if you respect and appreciate them, you’d adhere to their request. That’s what loyalty is
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T00l_shed@lemmy.world 3 days agoIt’s really easy, say your name is Tom, and I start calling you Stacy all the time, you’re going to get bothered by it eventually at best Or downright fuming at worst. It literally takes you nothing to use the right nouns/pronouns.
EABOD25@lemm.ee 3 days ago
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Not put out at all. Even if I don’t respect and appreciate them. I will use the name they want. Loyalty has nothing to do with this.
EABOD25@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Ok. Then respect
big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space 3 days ago
That’s a large assumption, and a presumptuous demand.
Do no assume. Do not demand. Mind your manners.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s not, and it’s not. Correct, false, Correct, Correct.
big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space 3 days ago
To address the first one. You assume that everybody uses language the same way that you do. That conforming to your demands in this is as preferable for them as it is for you.
That’s a pretty gigantic assumption.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s funny, I english people are given names at birth, and we use those names. And when they want to go by something else, we’re ok with it (nick names), that’s how the English language is used by the overwhelming vast majority so yes, the only gigantic assumption here is that the majority of English speakers don’t speak that way.