Beware, gentle reader, for here be Discourse. The internet is always abuzz with one hot take or another, and usually my fellow blogger, Oren, covers whatever bees are in our bonnets. But this time, some writers are telling people not to use epithets, a common literary device.
because you trained them, without meaning to, that checking wasn't necessary. and some part of you is still waiting for someone to see past the automatic answer. to ask a second time.