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WCDT 3621 to 3625 (27th November to 1st December 2017)
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Perfectly Reasonable on 01 Dec 2017, 21:30 ---My first response to Tilly was "we are supposed to ship this with Winslow?"
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"This" => "them" as already discussed.
Or are you saying that in your mind you initially really did see Tilly as neuter, in which case what does shipping even mean?
Perfectly Reasonable:
Was I thinking about such a thing? No, not really. Tilly? Tilly! I saw as a creation of Jeph as a partner for the new Winslow. Whose preferred pronoun is ?? (waydaminnit)
I mean no offense to anyone here. I commend the mods for their diligence.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: Tova on 30 Nov 2017, 22:49 ---I have a name with an unusual spelling, so it is prone to misspelling.
I also have a high voice, so people sometimes mistake me as female over the phone (which can be a real problem when trying to establish that you are who you say you are).
I find the latter more annoying, but maybe because that is rarer.
On a different topic: is a comic with an annoying character a bad comic?
Bonus points for including Star Trek in your answer. ;)
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IDK, let's ask Ensign Sue. ;)
On the note of name frustrations, I get to deal with the Daniel-David conflation. And despite my name being over 4000 years old, some people still say it wrong. I get that there's a dozen or so variations but either missing all of them or completely ignoring the one I'm using gets really irritating. "dan-yuh l" not "dah-niel", "dah-nile", and especially not "dan-yel". The last one happens to fall under the 'gender connotations in names' thing here, state-side.
--- Quote from: Welu on 01 Dec 2017, 03:27 ---Would you ever consider not respecting a cis person's pronouns because you didn't like them? That tends to be something only even thought of for nonbinary and trans people.
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*points at my name in proceeding response*
It happens more than you think. Usually by someone being an asshole or a bully. Being that the feminine version has been used commonly in the English speaking world as a girl's name for just over 100 years, how often do you think that happens? I'll give you a hint: from 1981 to 1996, it was in the top 10nmost popular names in the USA, and it hasn't dipped below #55 in the USA for the last 140 years.
Gyrre:
All hail Hanners, Queen of Cuteness!
bhtooefr:
Yeah, misgendering (at least against boys) as a method of bullying was definitely a thing when I was growing up.
Considering that my name has a feminine version with the addition of only one letter/syllable... yeah.
(Funnily enough, a trans friend of mine once decided to try to illustrate to me what misgendering feels like, by doing it to me with a completely different feminine name... I stopped her because I didn't need that illustrated, knowing full well what it was like (and actually I had previously hypothesized on these forums that maybe that's something that might be illustrative, funnily enough), and if she was going to do that, at least use the obvious wrong name.)
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