Posted on 05/02/2017 3:03:09 PM PDT by EveningStar
Edited on 05/02/2017 3:45:51 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Max, age 13, is agender — neither male nor female. When referring to Max, you don't use "he" or "she;" you use "they."
Once strictly a pronoun of the plural variety, "they" is now doing double duty as singular, too — referring to individuals, like Max, who do not see gender as an either/or option. (NPR agreed not to use Max's last name, because the family feared the sort of online threats that have been made to other transgender families.)
If the whole he/she pronoun thing feels awkward to you, Max is sympathetic — and patient.
'We are seeing more and more kids saying, 'You know what? What's with this either-or business? What's with this boy-girl and you have to fit in one box or the other?' "
"I can't expect anyone to use the right pronouns for me because it's not a thing that people know," Max tells me. "It's been great being myself, but it's also been really hard for people to get it, and for even family to get pronouns and stuff."
Max is a nutcase. Max’s parents are cowardly fools. And Max will be screwed up for the rest of HIS life, while HE — and a few other nutcases in the world — pretend that HE is perfectly okay.
There are two sexes, male and female.
Gender refers to language.
All of this crap is just sheer insanity!
Bruce is Bruce....no matter what....even without the hardware. One very screwed up man.
NPR presents by itself with this article why it should be defunded, its properties sealed in concrete & any equipment destroyed sealed in glass and buried with radioactive waste!
Clearly we should be increasing the funding for NPR so we can read more and more articles just like this one. In fact, I’ll bet the new budget does just that!
Now “they” are elevating bad grammar to the level of a “principle”. They just should admit that number agreement between nouns and pronouns is simply too hard for this generation ;-)
I agree.
NPR takes advice from a 13 year old child.
Max is mentally ill....
They are mentally ill
Camille Paglia: ‘Transgender Mania’ is a Symptom of West’s Cultural Decline, The Collapse of Cultures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMDVuHsVwKs
NPR seems to go around lifting rocks to find their stories.
Good production values, lousy stories.
Those who accommodate Max and kids like him that reject their own biology are committing child abuse in the guise of helping them.
Glen Or Glenda .... Plan 9 From Outer Space. It all makes sense now.
They should have good production values, they have two or three times the number of producers per show as any non-public broadcaster.
No the term gender means which sex. The techinical term gender dysphoria gives the issue away. Its not called sex dysphoria. The canard that gender is technically the social construct is an attempt to change lanuage by misrepresenting it.
FU MAX! You don't tell me what to do. You need to sue your parents for child abuse you poor kid.
Which pair of chromosomes represent a non gender? Is there a scientific answer to this?
“When there are no absolutes to govern society, society becomes the absolute.” —Francis Schaeffer. We are there.
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