• gjoel@programming.dev
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    6 months ago

    We had a temp receptionist called Joyce at my job. She said that at her old job they called her Mama J, and indicated that she would like to be called that here as well. I guess we were all assholes who defined her existence by calling her Joyce.

    • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      6 months ago

      Nicknames aren’t pronouns, they’re nicknames. If her legal name was Mama J and you didn’t call her that, yeah, that would probably constitute harassment over time and her asking you to call her by her legal name.

      What would actually be comparable is if you addressed her with male pronouns. Since the discussion was about pronouns, not nicknames.