Ask Matt: Correcting Pronouns on Someone Else’s Behalf
A reader writes: “Our good friends have a daughter, Linda (I changed the name that the reader sent in, because I didn’t know if it was real or fictional). “Linda dresses and carries herself in a very masculine way. She has done this for as long as we’ve known her – five years or so. She shops in the men’s section of clothing stores and seems to identify more with being a male. “Several times we have all been out for dinner and the server will refer to Linda as ‘he.’ It’s not surprising and I can see why they mistake her for a man. However, what confuses me is why no one speaks up. My husband and I want to say something to correct the server. We feel like we should defend Linda, but we don’t say a word. Linda doesn’t either – and doesn’t seem fussed by the
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“Ask Matt: Correcting Pronouns on Someone Else’s Behalf” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to culture, identity, and representation, while also engaging interpretive analysis. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.
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Ask Matt: Correcting Pronouns on Someone Else’s Behalf
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