#43

Pretty much use her name, and most people get it from context, or ask is that your partner

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#44

I don’t think anyone sensible could consider it to be appropriating anything. PS. I’d put myself in the Q of the LGBTQ etc list if pushed to do so.

#45

I’m just using my big dick energy to block it out

#46

Imaginary friend

#47

I say Wife, because we are married. Before that, I said Partner.

I always say Partner when talking about someone elses’s… um… partner so I don’t presume.

Basically, the argument is a bit weak, if at all.

#48

May I propose a new word? Perhaps Loverooney or Lifebud

#49

of course if anyone doesn’t like the word partner there are alternatives

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#50

My lobster

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#51

Additionally, wasn’t the original tweet actually about how it’s not approriateing queer culture, but instead…

…like, trying to “cover up” the fact that you might be “woke”* but you’ve married a cis gendered person in straight relationship, and now using partner is covering it up?

*this is the term used in the original tweet.

#53

Junior and senior partner

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#55

I call him my husband, I don’t really like it as I think it makes me sound like the Queen but there’s no way I’m using the word “hubby”.

He sometimes calls me his girlfriend and refers to himself as my boyfriend for his own amusement.

#56

DID YOU KNOW Senior was actually younger than Junior?

#57

just refer to them by their first name?

Probably what I’d do. Like if you think about it in most situations it’s either nobody’s business what your relationship to that person is or it can be implied from the topic.

#58

the argument that its appropriating queer culture is baffling to me. surely its normalising queer culture by using non-gender specific terms? so if someones not out yet then they still feel comfortable describing their partner as ~their partner~ without any assumptions?

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#59

Call him by another first name that isn’t his name or his nickname.

#60

p sure the person who did the original tweet has basically been told they’re being Very Silly

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#61

Major problem this. I am old, and we have been together 11 years, so I find saying “girlfriend” a bit childish. Bill Burr does a good line on this where he says something like “I’m not calling her my girlfriend at my age, like we are going to go out for pop”.

Find myself saying Missus, Other Half and Das Wife, but prefer Virtual Wife. All are wrong though and make me a dick.

Was easier being single.

#62

This is so stupid. Using a gender neutral term in front of people because you’re scared they’re homophobic isn’t culture and you can’t appropriate it.

#63

Could someone post the original tweet?

e:(that sounded more passive-aggressive than I meant it to)