r/worldnewsvideo • u/PlenitudeOpulence Plenty 🩺🧬💜 • Jan 23 '23

Humor 😄 Upset at the accuracy

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u/beatz1602 Jan 23 '23

Gotta admit, they look like a they/them.

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u/thetacticalpanda Jan 23 '23

Question - when do you use someone's gender when addressing them directly? I'm not making a larger point or trying to troll. When someone introducing themselves as "Hi, I'm Pat and I identify as they/them." Like... what part of my speech is changed because of that information?

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u/Temporary-Priority13 Feb 24 '23

Suppose if you wanted to get their attention and said something like excuse me miss

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u/furatg Jun 30 '23

To avoid this I started calling everyone "Man". Man woman or child. It works cause I work in a dispensary so people don't question it.

I even called my girlfriend that once out of habit but she didn't take it very well

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u/Competitive-Truck874 Jul 13 '23

I call everybody man dude and bro for the same reason lmao. Everyone 100% knows i smoke weed on the first meet now but it just made things simpler. Now i got girl dudes and person dudes and dude dudes and dog dudes and cat dudes and were all homies, bro 👌🏻😂

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u/Competitive-Truck874 Jul 13 '23

Its different for everybody. My partner still doesnt mind when i say “yes ma’am” when im being polite cause were just from texas and thats how we talk haha. But idk I think miss might be a little more polarizing than ma’am cause ma’am also has the cushion of being good manners but that could just be the case with my person. The trick is to not overthink it. If you put in any tiny amount of effort at all youll likely be misgendering them less than most the people in their life.

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u/HayesBailey Jun 02 '23

I just say “excuse me” to everyone. No need to add anything extra on the end anyways unless you’re talking to a socialite or something.