I never got why conservative got crazy if you specify a pronoun, but at the same time expect you to specify whether its, it’s Mr/Ms/Miss (and often don’t take Dr as an answer), looks like the same question

  • robolemmy@lemmy.world
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    They lost their minds back in the 60s/70s when women started using Ms instead of Mrs/Miss. Even into the 1990s, some conservative men were still butthurt about it. Rush Limbaugh was particularly offended over Ms Rodham-Clinton’s title and hyphen.

    They lost the battle over women’s titles and the pronoun thing is their new hill to die on.

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      Don’t want to waste any time talking to a woman who’s already married, need to know that shit upfront.

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        If only you could like…ask? But I guess that’s the crux of the issue.

        Do people you meet introduce themselves to you as Mrs/Ms X? Maybe if you work exclusively in/around schools…

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      This here - this isn’t anything new, people just forgot that they’re living through the same shit over and over again.

      Add to that, how DARE a woman choose something, anything!