So to focus on the central claim here, could the following scenario occur:

Hi! i'm sorry I missed this back in June. Hopefully you'll see the notification or whatever.

In answer to your question, no, it absolutely does not just apply to non-heteronormative example. To give an example from my own non-heteronormative identity: for a long, long time a large portion of publicly visible gay activists argued that 'queer' should be the go-to phrase for LGBT people. If they'd been taken as…

Jay is not a boy being mistaken for a girl. He is biologically a girl, and was known to the world as a girl until f'ing yesterday.

There's a duty of respect there, but it must be balanced against other duties, like a news outlets' duty of clarity to its readers, or our general duty to keep our common language consensus. Jay's family and friends are less governed by these other duties and more by their duty to Jay, and of course they should…

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I absolutely believe that there is a point at which a trans person is entirely and permanently living their new/true gender identity, and at that point I absolutely believe the correct pronoun must be used. You'd be ignorant (or a dick) not to.

But there's an agreed meaning of male in society, and an agreed meaning of 'him'. Language isn't as subjective as you suggest. That's the whole problem with the idea that only members of a group can decide how that group is referred to.

You talk as if we all sat down and agreed the way to address the pronoun issue with trans people. That's never happened. There seems to be a consensus (though, really, is there one?) among trans people that as soon as someone announces a gender identity we should all start using that right away. But I don't think…

You talk as if we all sat down and agreed the way to address the pronoun issue with trans people. That's never happened. There seems to be a consensus (though, really, is there one?) among trans people that as soon as someone announces a gender identity we should all start using that right away. But I don't think…

We need this in the UK too. Though tipping expectations are way lower here, and wages not quite so heinously low.

They've got mine anyway

I may be entiiiiiiirely alone on this but - isn't that a *pointer*? Surely a cursor is the flashing line which shows where you are in text?

Sure. But I don't know if it's important enough to mean they have to be 16.9. That's effectively saying that multimedia is a more important use for them than web browsing. The whole 16:9 thing has been totally video-driven but I'm honestly sure if there's anything besides that - and gaming - that it's superior for.

BBM just seems to have a strangely cultish quality. It's precisely the fact that it's not cross-platform that makes it so, I think: I hear people exchanging BBMs like they used to with phone numbers. Then you can't leave the platform because you couldn't contact that hot girl from accounts you met last night.

What? What? Where did I say 95% of the market will be tablets from now on? If you're parsing the analyst figures, the tablet figures are additional to the PC figures, not a subset. What I said was 'the balance of probability is that tablets are going to outsell laptops and desktops in consumer markets by the end of…

I'll tell you what, I'd really like it if everyone agreed whether we're gonna call these things 'Tab' or 'Pad'.

Interesting. I haven't used it yet. I suppose the line between 'PC interface' and 'mobile interface' will inevitably blur a bit over time but it certainly could be true that Google has gone too far for flexibility rather than focusing on ease of use.

@Dallas May: I don't get this 'carry around everywhere they go' thing. Of course tablets aren't going to be in everyone's bags all the time; whoever said they would?

@Giggity: I like how my Kindle feels! It's light!