

I think where you’re messing up is making the assumption that the person will stick with “they” even after learning pronouns. Defaulting to they when a person doesn’t know is just the smart, respectful play. As long as the person makes an honest effort to use the correct pronoun when corrected, that’s all that can be asked.
I have a similar docker/podman alias, except I pull first. This greatly reduces downtime between
down
andup
, which is nice for critical services.