User blog comment:Madkatmaximus/pronouns/@comment-5111283-20150107154047

I think we could have avoided a lot of issues if a couple things had been done.

First off, Mad - I know you'd like everyone to call you by gender neutral pronouns, but the fact is people don't always do what you want. Especially with number of users with certain belief sets here, surly you didn't except all of them to just do it, did you? Perhaps wording your blog in a way that says you would "greatly prefer to be called by those, but if you feel your personal beliefs don't allow you to that's okay and if you could try and just call me by my username that would be great." That way you would still get everyone who was willing to call you by those pronouns to do so, and those who desired not could as well without 'debating' it.

I think the issue is that people think that everyone should just "go with the flow" as they say and accept everything. That's not how life works, people disagree on things - if we would allow ourselves to respectfully disagree amongst each other and just accept the differences of opinion and beliefs we'd be fine. But instead we try and get everyone to agree with us on some topics, it doesn't work and just creates discord amongst the community users, which I don't like. We need to be a community of users who, although we may not agree on many things, still get along and don't let our personal opinions get in the way of being friends with people or having friendly conversations with them.

Also, when you disagree with someone don't try and make fun of it - it just feels of bad taste. Lastly, don't do Ad Hominems.

Anyhow, just my take on the matter.