Master and slave

[Soberman921]

This seems a natural corollary to the issue of gender neutral pronouns which tend to instill rage in many people with whom I agree on a great many other issues. Personally, I have no problem using whatever pronoun makes someone comfortable. It is at best a minor inconvenience to keep their often unique pronoun in mind, and usually comes up only in writing since it's unusual to use someone's pronoun in speaking with them. But for reasons I can't quite fathom, this fires some people up. And from the standpoint of concern for others, it should be a much clearer issue than the master/slave question because with the pronouns, someone has expressed a clear position on what makes them feel comfortable rather than you having to guess or assume, so by using a binary pronoun you are consciously making them uncomfortable. One might argue these people are being unreasonably sensitive, though I have no idea what standard one would apply to reach this conclusion, but the bottom line is "who cares?" If it represents at worst a minor inconvenience to you (and in most cases no inconvenience at all), why not just do it and create a little happiness in the world?