Posted on 08/28/2015 6:42:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Via the Examiner, I’d do what they say. In our alarming new culture of rage against microaggressions, doing otherwise might get you shot.
Rather than make brutish assumptions that someone who looks like a boy is a boy and someone who looks like a girl is a girl, the campus diversity office recommends starting the semester by asking everyone to provide their names “and pronouns.” Or better yet, why not just use new pronouns that are gender-neutral? It’ll spare you an ephemeral awkward moment when you happen to encounter someone from the tiny fraction of the tiny fraction of the population that not only identifies as trans but doesn’t want to be referred to by the pronoun of the gender they physically appear to be.
Not to play this stupid game, but I’m curious: Why does “they/them/their” turn into “xe/xem/xyr” instead of the more logical “zey/zem/zeir”? Also, why isn’t “they/them/their” proper usage for someone who’s trans, whether singular or plural? I mean, purely in terms of how it scans, “xyr” is an abomination.
Also, I’m not sure I grasp the difference between “hir/hirs” and “zir/zirs.” Which one should you use for Caitlyn Jenner? One, I think, is for a man who identifies as a woman and the other for a woman who identifies as a man, but I’ll be damned if I know which terms applies to which. The whole point of this exercise, I thought, was not to make any judgments about gender based on appearance. Doesn’t the need to choose between “hir” and “zir” force you to do that?
Either way, with respect to Caitlyn, looks increasingly like ze’s going to prison.
What’s wrong with plain ol’ “it” if you’re uncertain?
“I wonder how many classes are going to be dedicated in the future to analyzing how and why the United States, the greatest country ever, more dominant than Rome,
Went Insane and committed cultural suicide”
I very strongly suspect that it will take much less time than Rome took.
How about “it”?
What kills me is that there are some middle-class schmucks in Tennessee somewhere who will not have a kid “diverse” or smart enough or good enough to play football at a college level to get a scholarship to that school and because mom and dad are paying taxes up the wazoo to pay the people like the subject of the article their six-figure salaries, mom+dad won’t be able to spring for it themselves. Yes, I know that TN has no income tax. Believe me, they get you instead in a hundred different ways.
How about “Hey, weirdo”? Not politically correct? :)
This nonsense doesn’t belong in Tennessee. It doesn’t belong in the United States!
It’s a pathetic situation all around.
Newspeak.
What a bunch of morons. Xe must have rocks in xyr heads.
“Gee! Someone read 1984 and discovered Newspeak. This was a novel against such tyranny you idiots!”
Only about the top 3% of high school classes (basically, mostly the Chinese and Indian kids) can read and understand that book at this point IMO. Success! And it didn’t even have to be banned!
Doof and Doofess?
So am I.
Awkward for WHO? If somebody can't tell I'm female, then they should feel awkward. Like the people who call everybody "you guys." I'm not a guy. Neither is my female friend I'm having lunch with. Are you so lazy you can't say "ladies" instead of "you guys"?
When I was in high school, I read Anthem, by Ayn Rand. In the dysfunctional, futuristic, dictatorial society she described, the use of personal pronouns was prohibited and anyone caught using them was put to death, especially one in particular. I enjoyed the novelette, but I thought it was a bit of a stretch at the time. Little did I know...
Michael Savage had a book titled “Liberalism is a mental disorder”.
When right and wrong have no religion to define right and wrong, people are the arbiters. Reason is rejected by liberals, choosing feelings instead.
When feelings are the arbiters of matters, you are a man or woman based on what you feel, not what you biologically are.
When feelings are the basis of right and wrong, the person most passionate on the topic is considered the most correct.
When feelings are the basis of reasoning, the most emotional person gets to set the standard for what is acceptable to the group - even when they are utterly irrational.
Horrible thought isn't it.
We needed a Reagan after 9/11 and a Reagan again in 2008 lol.
actually, it’s not funny.
At least under Clintoon the molester, congress had some guts and cut spending and forced him to be centrist at least.
But the downfall started with his lack of coherent foreign policy and the lost opportunity in Russia.
And in my opinion, followed by two bad presidents back to back.,
Budget deficit after deficit. Nothing done about the border. Spending like drunk sailors (sorry sailors). Not addressing the real financiers of terror...Iran and Saudi Arabia.
My choice.
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