The word “man” means nothing more than adult male human, and I agree if someone finds it offensive it is their own personal issue and the word is not an insult. Same with he/him pronouns. These words are not insults just because someone dislikes them. censorshipment’s most recent post comes to mind...

That being said, it’s very obvious that allowing gc to use factually accurate pronouns is going to cause us to lose the already small number of qt participants. I don’t really understand how this is a rule. We could easily have the rule of compromising and using they/them, especially since it only applies to users here, and when speaking in general it seems we can use the terms that we feel are accurate and since qt can’t call us cis. I feel like this rule effectively shuts down the sub. No qt will come or stay here if we can “misgender”, because they place different meaning on some words and take offense. I think the issue is not the words at all, but rather their internal issues with those words, but that doesn’t really matter since no matter why, it’s going to cost us qt posters.

I agree with the rest of the rules, but no matter how ridiculous I think the pronoun/misgendering thing is, I think it’s pretty obvious that gc needs to compromise and agree to use neutral terms, if we want the sub to be active and have members of both sides.

That being said, I genuinely think most of gc gets this and would use neutral pronouns despite the rule.