Easter is not inherently a christian holiday goddammit. At least not in its popular celebration. Last I checked Jesus didn’t pop eggs from his butt when he resurrected (that we know of) and the preachings of the Easter Bunny are unfortunately not canon in Catholicism.

To complain about “religious persecution” of profoundly pagan (if not outright heretical depending on who you ask) traditions is… certainly an interesting exercise in religious cognitive dissonance.

Lul based. Same here, whatever will get them to leave me alone the soonest so I can continue toiling.

I do this too. I just default to they/them unless the gender is relevant to the story, which it rarely is.

I’ve found another benefit is that often it removes the gendered biases from the story. Like, if it’s a bad customer who’s a woman, but I call them they, people aren’t immediately thinking of a Karen. Or if it’s a man people aren’t immediately thinking “oh well, boys will be boys”.

This is interesting and maybe reason to say “my partner” instead of “my girlfriend”.

I live in northern Canada and kinda have to do the opposite to keep my job. When I talk about my wife I call her my wife and I use gendered language mostly. These guys are old school and I once heard them talk about someone who applied to work there, but they went and saw on Facebook that a year ago he had long hair and had it died blue and looked like a girl. They didn’t even give him an interview just because of that, and they spent a good minute laughing amongst eachother about how much of a pussy that guy must have been.

Probably for the best to not share it at work unless it’s something huge like going outwardly trans.

Personally the less my coworkers know about me the better.

Just make shit up. Just do der/dem which will confuse the fuck out of people.

There‘s a reasonable proposal for „en“, so you can just use that

The german language is not bound by the laws of some institute, you can just use whatever you like!*

* Not applicable in schools in saxony, bavaria, schleswig-holstein, and saxony-anhalt.

Maybe ze? The way “they” sounds with a German accent?

I like how Japanese does it (at least based on a likely oversimplistic explanation by someone who makes 4+ hour video reviews of games like Pac-Man [yes, Tim Rogers]).

From what I understand, every time a person refers to themselves or someone else, they choose which pronoun to use to fit the situation. That is to say, their social stature compared to the other person’s, their age compared to the other person’s, the general circumstances, etc. Similar to how their honorifics work (suffixes like -kun, -san, -sama, etc.).

So for example, while there is a specific pronoun that is typically used to refer to a young female, if there is a young girl in a situation where she’s trying to make herself feel stronger and older (I’m picturing an internal monologue here to hype herself up I guess. I’m too brain broken to not imagine all of this going down in a JRPG), she might refer to herself using the pronoun typically used by grown men.

Again, I don’t know Japanese, so I can’t give specific examples, and I could even be completely wrong, but maybe someone who knows the language can elaborate on (i.e. correct) what I said. I found it to be a very interesting way to go about it.

That’s just one pronoun smh