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I would to avoid conflict and respect them if they were a friend or acquaintance, but if I didn't know them well I'd be a bit reluctant to for various reasons. If they told me upfront I'd be much more likely to, but if they assume I needed to somehow magically know their pronouns without them telling me and then get upset and emotional then unfortunately no, and I would avoid them for good. When you deal with pronoun stuff online though it can be really risky waters to tread I think even more so than in real life, sadly making a mistake with an LGBTQ person's pronouns online can lead to you getting blasted for hate, being harassed, and being banned/blocked from a website or a group without remorse or any explanation even when you didn't mean anything bad.
What actually bothers me slightly more sometimes though is the insane number of people who paste pronouns in their website profiles nowadays, I am suspicious of anyone who does this as trying to look better than they are or virtue signaling. Most people I've met who had pronouns in their bios were sadly NOT good people by any means, and for this reason it has become a red flag for me and even a way for me to screen people out lol. But of course not 100% of people who do that are bad.
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