Posted on 10/02/2017 6:05:38 PM PDT by Morgana
We need a hot summer to melt these snowflakes.
Someone of authority should call her “Fired”!
“The teacher wanted to be called “Mix” not “Miss” or “MS”
Is there nobody in the entire school district who can take “mix” behind a building and kick the ass of “mix”?
I can lend my 9-year-old niece.
Of course the parents aren’t even thinking of taking their kids out of the freak show. Boiling frog and all that.
Obviously failed syntax...
Setting gender politics completely aside, I still sometimes struggle with that. You might say
“When someone hears his baby crying, he tries to comfort it”
using the generic he/his. But doing so, it makes you think father, not mother. You might instead say
“When someone hears their baby crying, they try to comfort it”
which is ungrammatical. You could resort to using “he/she” or “s/he”, but those are stilted and awkward. No good choices.
Every parent should notify her - in writing - that they expect to be called by the name of their choosing whenever she contacts them by phone or in writing, or at a parent/teacher meeting.
Well that was my reaction as well. "Gendering" pronouns suggest that pronouns can act, the action being to gender. But action is a property of a verb for, a gerund in this case, but gender is not a verb and so you cannot make a gerund out of it, any more than you can make it infinitive, e.g. to gender, a meaningless concept unless you are a sex change surgeon, or god.
Normally gender is a property of a noun connoting, in English, a being, and being a being it has a gender, unless, say it is a boat, yacht or a ship, in which case it is feminine, which is a paternalistic affectation suggesting that the boat, yacht or ship has a mind of its own, a perverse one at that, suggesting that that is in the feminine nature, which is demeaning to women, or in the alternative that the boat, yacht or ship is an object of love and affection, a characteristic men attribute to women, again objectifying a woman the same way you are objectifying the boat, lavishing undue attention on it for your own gratification.
If you get a plural pronoun, can you get 2 for 1 deals?
public servant would really get hxr pissed
My name is Legion, for we are many.
” . She wanted to be called “Mx” pronounced “Mix” instead of Miss”
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Next she’ll be axing them to say “axe” instead of “ask”.
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And that those who are trying to tell us what to think are also telling us not to think what we do think and what we do see with our own eyes, but to think and see what they tell us to think and see, thinking for yourself and seeing for yourself being the obvious indicators of a paternalistic society.
*****FACEPALM******
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People demanding others call them *Mx* on FR a *daily* occurrence?
Links please.......
Mx? As in 'd up?
No. They/them/their.
Using “they/them” would be grammatically incorrect for singular, so IT just proved IT is not fit for education.
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