Many of us will have been in a professional context (an audio conference call maybe) where someone guessed the person’s gender incorrectly from their name and the sum total of the offence was a shrug, and a quick apology was enough to set things right and move on.
This is a non-issue for almost every person on the planet except for maybe the most easily offended.
It’s about power and dictating what good manners are now and a way to determine quickly if someone is of good breeding and worth continuing with much like how groups used other coded language and gestures in the past.
This is a non-issue for almost every person on the planet except for maybe the most easily offended.