The pronoun game, I'm not playing it, what about you?

The Glen Beck Show | May 2nd, 2022 | Vanity

[shadowlands1960]

I was listening to Glen Beck's opening this morning and he briefly discussed gender roles and brought up Rachel Levine. He referred to Levine as 'her' and it got me thinking, these conservative commentators near always do that. This isn't picking on Beck, they nearly all do it.

I see this as the verbal equivalent of 'bending the knee.' I know people do it out of a sense of kindness, like giving stuffed animals to members of MS-13 at the border. I think it is unhelpful. This is delusion, why should we feed into the delusions of people who are gender confused? I for a rule never do this. A man is a man and a woman is a woman and I want to this line to become clear again. Is that too harsh?

How do you deal with the pronoun 'issue?' Do you use the incorrect pronoun out of kindness or do you insist on the pronoun that actually describes the object of your discourse?

[Blogatron]

My pronouns are razzberry and hocking a loogie.

[Trailerpark Badass]

My reaction, to such a person, were it to happen, is “I will pray for you.”

[Trailerpark Badass]

But to go ahead and play, mine are zip!/zap!!/zing!!!,” and if you deprive me of any of my chosen exclamation points, you’re worse that Hitler, or Putin.

[shadowlands1960]

Yes. I meant avoiding conflict in the realm of ideas. I would never think it is right to harass people because they mistake themselves for women (or men).

You are right about law enforcement... their job is to keep the peace and they will take the easy route to that goal if it works.

[Sans-Culotte]

If someone ever asks what are your pronouns, my reply will be whatever Strunk and White dictates is proper.

Yes, but you can be certain that new editions will have the pronoun BS.

[Sans-Culotte]

'm fairly reasonable on this topic. If a man can genuinely make himself look and act like an actual female, very rare by the way, I'm okay with referring to him as a "she." As for those who look like Benjamin Franklin with a Halloween store blonde wig - nope.

You would think that some of these guys would start by putting on a dress and wig to see how well they succeed at "being women". In the case of Levine, you'd think one of his friends would have said "I'm sorry dude, but you suck at being a woman". So many of these men who would be women are terrible at being women and merely look like dudes in wigs or long hair.