alt Hacker News>It is generally considered polite to address a woman by Ms. rather than Mrs., unless the preference of the woman in question is clearly known.
Hm. Weird. Never seen that before. Let's check the source, emilypost.com:
>Mx. Is the universal title that can be used by anyone. It is gender non-identifying. Even if you identify specifically with a gender you may still use Mx. and you may see Mx. used when the sender is unaware of your title.
https://emilypost.com/advice/guide-to-addressing-corresponde...
OK, im out. I'm immediately out.
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Look, if you want to learn about social cues you’re going to have to draw from experience instead of links from the internet. Experience interacting with women will quickly teach you that Ms. is the safest option, if not preferred.
Like latinx, a straight insult for us latinos.
I semi seriously suggest we come up with neologisms to avoid gendered forms of address. We could take from Morrowind and replace Mr/Ms/sir/ma’am with “muthsera”.
> Hm. Weird. Never seen that before. Let's check the source, emilypost.com
This is taught to children in the United States. I didn't go to an especially good school and I remember it to this day. If you're not from the US the custom may be different.
Perhaps you will consider the advice from Grammarly [0] as a more acceptable source.
[0] https://www.grammarly.com/blog/commonly-confused-words/ms-mr...
Sir this is not an airport, you don’t need to announce your departure
Oh my God are native English speakers okay?? Ms. is not miss it's pronounced like "miz" and it's always been a convention to refer to women with their full or last name regardless of marriage state. Mx is just a gender neutral honorific for full or last names.
You're out because you don't think non-binary people are real and you can't imagine a situation where you'd want an ambiguous honorific?
And you’re nonethewiser.
You've never seen Ms. before? This isn't some 2020s invention. My high school teachers went by Ms. in the nineties. Ms. Magazine is from 1972.