What is with so many of you referring to Manning with male pronouns

[ljm2002]

54. I think it is only fair...

...to give people a bit of time to adjust.

All of the copious amounts of ink on the topic of Manning's leaked materials and trial, have been about Bradley Manning and have referred to Bradley Manning as "he" and "him", since she had not yet requested to be called "Chelsea" and live as a female.

We do need to respect her wishes, but on the other hand, if we are referring to the leaks and the trial, the leaks were made by Bradley Manning and the person on trial was Bradley Manning, so there is some gray area there, particularly in reference to things that happened before Bradley requested to be called Chelsea.

Any poster who denigrates Chelsea for this change, or otherwise uses it as a way to diminish her actions, should be roundly criticized. But I honestly think we should give it a few days before we get snippy with one another over using "he" instead of "she", or referring to Manning as "Bradley" instead of "Chelsea"... habits can be hard to break.

IOW, absent any evidence of ill intent, I suggest just politely reminding the other person and leaving it at that -- at least for a week or so.

Just my $.02, and maybe not even worth that...