Thanks for sharing your experience. I understand it better now.

Thanks for your perspective

I like barking and do it well enough that some dogs bark back to me. Most won’t, but some also have funny reactions.

Don’t you think transitioning reaffirms gender roles and stereotypes? I’m probably missing something, but why isn’t being a really effeminate man enough, that there’s the need to take hormones and change your pronouns?

I’ll likely be sharing this as part of my upcoming resign

Can I taste doggy?

You think you are not used to it, until you are in Europe with dry 35 C, society is collapsing around you and you are, literally, barely breaking a sweat.

Minor nitpick, you have causality inverted. Esperanto is artificial and therefore regular.

While it’s nice for the employee to get some extra bucks, tipping only supports minimal pay for the job because “they’ll make up for it in tips”.

I’ll answer the opposite way: in South America we have no crows, so it was by far the most fascinating animal I saw while in England.