Communities Make Lousy Political Mascots

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I was reading a left-leaning academic’s blog post about disliking pronoun rounds. They weren’t coming from an indignant “I’d rather go to jail than use they/them” perspective — instead, they thought it was a bit dehumanizing not to address someone else in the room by name. They felt that the best pronoun for everyone in a conference was “you.” Talk to people directly, they said. Don’t abstract them away as though they…