Comment on What's the difference between asking someone title or someone's pronouns ?

alokir@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Conservatives (with a lowercase ‘c’) prefer a series of small incremental changes over a longer period of time while progressives believe in big leaps. Both are valid viewpoints depending on the issue, sometimes we should take things slowly but other times we needed that change yesterday.

Asking titles has been around for a long time so conservatives are ok with it. It also conforms to their existing ideas about gender and roles in society.

Asking for pronouns is a relatively new thing and the whole debate around them is a big and sudden change (at least as far as they see), and it turns everything they believed in on its head.

Of course, there are people who are just plain hateful but I think there’s more nuance to it than that most of the time.

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