As far as I know you’re not legally obligated to call anybody anything...?
I don’t know, it just seems like such a small thing. I truly do not care what people want to be called. It’s simply not important to me to get worked up about something that has absolutely no impact on my life whatsoever. I’m pretty far right on most things but not this, I guess.
I kind of see what you’re saying but, Attack Helicopter isn’t a pronoun so I don’t totally see the validity of the comparison. I just see preferred pronouns as respecting someone’s boundaries. It doesn’t hurt me and it doesn’t cost me anything. My grandmother has dementia, a mental illness, and we play along even if it doesn’t make sense that she thinks I’m her sister in 1967...because it doesn’t hurt anyone. And it helps me save my energy for real issues that actually are threatening us, our country, and our freedoms.
If there is one part of the news I don’t give a shit about, it’s a bunch of clucking hens on TV. NO ONE CARES.