IAWYC. That said, I don’t like conversations changing topic to grammar because someone misused a word, and I feel that conversations switching to gender issues because someone misused a pronoun are the same thing. The topic is fine when raised directly, as in this post, but obnoxious when it hijacks a conversation about something else, as it often does.
I don’t think that these conflicts boil down to just grammar and pronoun usage; the problem of keeping your readers identified with you is IMO more subtle, general and significant than those sub-topics.
IAWYC. That said, I don’t like conversations changing topic to grammar because someone misused a word, and I feel that conversations switching to gender issues because someone misused a pronoun are the same thing. The topic is fine when raised directly, as in this post, but obnoxious when it hijacks a conversation about something else, as it often does.
I don’t think that these conflicts boil down to just grammar and pronoun usage; the problem of keeping your readers identified with you is IMO more subtle, general and significant than those sub-topics.