Originally Posted by WWWP

@Mindy, so to answer your question, yes you can refer to Tristan by their name. No one is suggesting you don't use their name. But hopefully I've helped make it a little more clear about what we're talking about when we're talking about pronouns. If you don't use Tristan's name, you should use the pronouns they, them, or theirs, because that is their preference.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by WWWP

But we would never use "it" in place of a name in a sentence, because that is dehumanizing.


/End of Lesson One. Please submit any clarifying questions below.

Originally Posted by Mindfulness

I sort of agree with jwb that the rules are bent like hell for people. I simply made a mistake by calling tristian "bro" but OH and Oriphiel simply can just call him w/e and get away with it. sorry for throwing yall under the bus but i honestly made a mistake, yall purposely offended him

Originally Posted by Mindfulness

thanks for the explanation.

Originally Posted by jwb

what's if "it" is a human's preferred pronoun?

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

I was called upon by the muses for greatness.

Originally Posted by Frownland

I'm bald, ja.

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

smgdh

Htg I never once tried to offend tristian. Where are you getting that from?

Originally Posted by elphenor

I'm a tool bag

Originally Posted by WWWP

name one

Originally Posted by Anteater

If Dr. Gregory House didn't care about pronouns, nobody should care about pronouns.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.