Do We Really Need to Use the Right Pronouns in the Real World?

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Yen: Pronouns are used by humans in the real world to communicate. They don't actually refer that way. Appeal to practice and reality is a much stronger argument than trying to take it to platonic forms of a, what is gender? Like n operating in that sphere, it becomes a lot more effective to bring it, ground it face-to-face.

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