• ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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    11 days ago

    I think OP meant you using the wrong pronoun when talking to someone who would rather you didn’t is akin to imprisoning that someone in a burka.

    Which clearly is something someone in the first world without too many problems in life would say.

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      11 days ago

      Oh, maybe I misunderstood. If that’s the case, I guess that’s at least a more accurate comparison than what I thought they meant.

      I thought they meant that someone asking them to use a preferred pronoun was like forcing them to wear a burka.

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        11 days ago

        Well, either way, it’s not really worth thinking about for more than 10 seconds, because quite frankly the parallel is pretty fucking dumb.