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You Can Get Better at Using the Right Pronouns (Without Being Offensive)
When you use someone’s correct pronouns, you’re showing them a basic level of respect. Still, many well-meaning people find themselves confused or even intimidated by the terrain of different gender identities — especially when speaking to someone you’re not particularly close with, like an employee, or your kid’s friend from school.
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It’s Time to Embrace the Singular ‘They’
Grammar snobs may shudder in disgust at this idea, but it’s time to normalise the use of they/them as singular pronouns. It’s 2021; no more of this “he or she, his or her” stuff.