This is the thing people ignore when they say Westbrook needs to trust or empower his team . He doesn ' t have offensive players on his team . He doesn ' t have reliable scorers . He ' s the main show in the buckets department . <| sep |> Yes . If your motivation for being called something is wanting to be a dick about it , then you don ' t deserve to be called that thing . And if your motivation for not calling someone what they want to be called is based on some theoretical platitude about free speech , I don ' t think you need to be respected . This knife cuts both ways . If they ' re the bully that gets a kick from threatening you with social exclusion , then not listening to them is literally a good thing . Yeah , but who ' s the bully . The one in control of your marks and grades ? No , society decides that . Yes , they do , and they do so through the legislative and executive branches of government . That ' s what a democracy is about , and that ' s what a representative democracy is about too I have no problems with Jordan Peterson voicing his objections , but he seems to be arguing that he , not the government , is able to determine certain codes of conduct within society . If he has a case he should challenge the law , something which is allowed in free and democratic society . If he ' s not willing to do that I can ' t help but feel that he doesn ' t think he has a strong case . Now , according to Peterson , and plenty of other people He and She isn ' t offensive , and they ' re the two personal pronouns we have to choose between . What makes their claim less valid ? The fact that not everybody fits into those two categories ? I mean , this seems relatively simple to me in that the groups that he ' s comparing transgenders to don ' t really exist on the binary plane of gender that most of us share . That he wishes to argue against that is his choice , but it doesn ' t actually change the fact that unless you ' re willing to accept that there ' s a straight dichotomy between men and women that nobody comes close to dividing , it ' s ridiculous and obstinate to say that I need your motivation first . Peterson doesn ' t have to do that in the vast majority of cases , but as soon as he does he ' s all up in arms about it . I find his arguments unconvincing on that front .