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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I know a guy who saw skin tone bandages at a school and lost his mind. He ranted about it for days. People I know still refer to him as the "skin tone bandage guy"

Believe it or not, there are a number people who are "upset at pronouns in email guys" who lose their minds over this and its actually a public service to identify people with anger issues before they do real harm

This is why those policies exist. If everyone has their pronouns in their bio/email, the people with uncontrolled anger issues don't have clear targets.

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Assuming everyone with an opinion contrary to your own has uncontrolled anger issues is probably a pathology. Maybe get that looked at.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

There's no assumptions. The guy was red faced and ranting for days over. Because he saw bandaids marketed at diversity.