They (male and female leftists) first started doing that DECADES ago.
Got real annoying in the mid 1990s.
After a few years, political correctness was getting beat down as people were tired of tripping over words trying to find the right PC thing to say.
Even PC versions of Aesop’s fables became a gag ‘thing’.
All of this crap goes squarely on the culture’s shoulders thanks to the media and Obama starting in 2009.
I agree, don’t play along anymore.
I created a name for it: Lesbonics.