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Welcome to Vancouver's gender-neutral pronoun wars
The Globe and Mail ^
| June 19, 2014
| MARGARET WENTE
Posted on 06/19/2014 4:06:44 PM PDT by rickmichaels
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To: rickmichaels
Not long now.
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posted on
06/19/2014 4:09:03 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: rickmichaels
Could somebody please explain xe, xem and xyr. How pronounced and used.
To: Travis McGee
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posted on
06/19/2014 4:12:49 PM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
To: rickmichaels
Theyll also be able to choose a gender-neutral washroom if they dont like the ones that match the gender they were born with.I always wanted to shower with the girls volleyball team. Now I have an in.
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posted on
06/19/2014 4:14:12 PM PDT
by
FatherofFive
(Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
To: rickmichaels
will have the right to be referred to as xe, xem and xyr instead of the misleading gender-binary terms he or she, him or her and his or hers. Misleading terms like he and she???? I'm confused. Does "xe" have a penis or a vagina? Is "xem" able to give birth or not?
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posted on
06/19/2014 4:14:21 PM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: rickmichaels
Xem.... Xem is outrageous, wasn’t Xem one of the Holograms...
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posted on
06/19/2014 4:17:29 PM PDT
by
GraceG
To: rickmichaels
...the right to be referred to as...
At the expense of everyone else's right to say what they want.
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posted on
06/19/2014 4:22:16 PM PDT
by
Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: All
How much more of this stupidity do we have to see??????
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posted on
06/19/2014 4:23:46 PM PDT
by
JW1949
To: rickmichaels
SPLAT! More liberal brains hitting the floor. . . caused from keeping their minds so open. . . They just fall out.
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posted on
06/19/2014 4:27:16 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
To: rickmichaels
“...instead of the misleading gender-binary terms he or she, him or her and his or hers. “
And that has been a big, largely unmentioned part, of the gay agenda. It’s never been just about a perceived inequality for many of these folks. Mere acceptance has never been the goal. It’s about redefining the entire concept of male and female. The purpose being to make gay, etc. not a societal and biological outlier (which I maintain it is), but a mainstream part of the norm, akin to having blue eyes or being left-handed.
Western civilization is losing its damn mind.
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posted on
06/19/2014 4:30:15 PM PDT
by
DemforBush
(A repo man is always intense.)
To: rickmichaels
how can a girl’s volleyball team, or a girl’s soccer team, be considered a girl’s league, when there are men in skirts playing? Men and women are engineered differently, from leg strength to upper body strength. It’s unfair competition to real girls imo
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posted on
06/19/2014 4:31:35 PM PDT
by
blueplum
To: Swordmaker
reminds me of the Atlas Shrugged philosopher who said nothing is real
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posted on
06/19/2014 4:35:54 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: rickmichaels
Since so many mix up he/him I/me, etc. I propose that we just have one pronoun ... it.
To: rickmichaels
I think 'xe' is pronounced she in Chinese...so it's pronounced 'she,' 'shem' and 'sheer'?
To: rickmichaels
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posted on
06/19/2014 4:46:11 PM PDT
by
terycarl
To: rickmichaels
So if the 5’6”, 300 lb creep with the dirt stacshe want to be referred to as xe, am I just to assume I’m dealing with a member of middlesex county or is xe obligated to inform me?
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posted on
06/19/2014 4:59:16 PM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
(When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fiction)
To: all the best
Probably best pronounced like’qu’, as in “quee, quem & queer”
Xe, Xem, Xyr it’s still always either XX or XY
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posted on
06/19/2014 5:02:40 PM PDT
by
mikrofon
(Lingo BUMP)
To: rickmichaels
De, dim, derp also works.
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posted on
06/19/2014 5:05:42 PM PDT
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: rickmichaels
There were hints that this rubbish was coming even before my father passed away in 2005. Despite not being given to cussing, he always held the correct nominative gender-unspecified pronoun was s/h/it. I suppose the objective case would be her/im/it and the possessive her/is/its.
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posted on
06/19/2014 5:21:34 PM PDT
by
The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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