There's a podcast that I like called By the Book. The hosts live by the rules of a different self-help book every couple of weeks. It's usually pretty amusing although the hosts are a bit too woke and will use the term "c*s" when describing women which I find offensive.
In ep 85 the book they were doing (The Body is Not an Apology) required them to appreciate lots of different types of people's bodies. So one of the hosts, Kristen, was in the park describing what she could see in front of her.
Look at that cute little guy walking slowly and deliberately with his tiny little dog. His dog looks just like him actually. And over there, those two runners together, they look really fit, like extremely so, like Olympians. And oh those women I don't know what they're doing it looks like some kind of cross-fit thing but they look very, very, very strong.
So completely inoffensive you would think, but no. In a follow-up episode ep 99 they said this:
Kristen: So a couple of people wrote into me a few weeks after that episode aired and they said they didn't like the scene in the episode where I was observing diverse bodies in the park. I'm not sure if you remember this but...
Jolenta: I do.
Kristen: Yeah I said things like "Look at those strong, fierce women exercising. Look at that older man walking at a fast pace. He walks so much faster than me." I don't know if you remember but I was saying things like that. So a couple people wrote in and said "Kristen, you should never call somebody a woman or a man unless they give you permission to do that. Just because somebody is female-presenting or male-presenting doesn't mean they identify as female or male. And so, please don't ever call somebody a woman or a man again unless they give you permission first." So that's something I've been keeping in my mind. So thank you folks who wrote in."
Ugh. WTF is this? She was talking about anonymous strangers and presumably out of their earshot but she might have misgendered them? She should have gone up to them and asked if they didn't mind her describing them as a "man"/"women" on the audio diary she was recording? And then this is something she's taking seriously and is going to try to do. I am sure that it comes from a place of wanting not to offend anyone and be supportive, but this is madness now. We need to say no to this idiocy.