• jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Well then, we need to fire every teacher who uses “Bob” instead of “Robert” or “Liz” instead of “Elizabeth” then. Only then will they realize how stupid this is.

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      3 days ago

      I’ve known a lot of people who go by their middle names because their first name is a family name (who they hate). Like if you call them by their first name, it’s the equivalent of dead naming.

      Some of those people are anti-trans.

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        I can definitely imagine that: there were so many “James” in my family. Then again, my brothers middle name was much worse so that may be a reason he never tried

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      you can’t have a rational approach to this. these people love the hypocrisy. they bathe in it. wallow in like a pig in shit.