Gender-Neutral Relationship Terms

Universal Gender-Neutral English ^ | 9/30/24 | Shawn Butler

[DallasBiff]

I know an article from almost a year ago, but what radical craziness.

What's a "huther"?

[Tennessee Nana]

Helicopter parent...

huthering

[econjack]

People will be ice skating in Hell before I start using these terms.

[Leaning Right]

> If you have better ideas, let me know. <

Actually, I do. The author should stop with this nonsense and get a real job.

[Kharis13]

Nonsense like this is just one of the many reasons why Trump dominated last November. Crummy economy, a wide-open southern border, woke politics; the Dims just can’t get wise to themselves.

And, yeah, what’s a “huther”?

[bert]

“That bitch has a dick”

Good old plain English language

[silent majority rising]

These people need a boot camp to straigten out their priorities. With this insanity, they will never achieve anything positive, and are relegated to a miserable life of uncertainty about everything.

[silent majority rising]

He is an actor, and since he goes by his stage name, I assume he is trying to revive an dead career. From Wiki: “Actor Sean Blakemore, known for his small roles on soap operas such as Days of Our Lives and The Young and the Restless,[3] originated the role of Shawn Butler on January 24, 2011, on a recurring basis”. It is a pathetic attempt to revive a career in Hollywood. He thinks he had folloers on the Soap Operas, so it is evidence that he is mentally challenged (Crazy runs strong in this one).

[Gay State Conservative]

SMH

[Vermont Lt]

A good story for a change:

My wife is a communications person for a health system. Over the past few years she has written stories about their breast feeding clinic winning awards. During that time the home office tried to force the term, “Breast feeding person” in the stories. She would replace it with “mother” when she re-wrote the story.

Yesterday, for the first time in ages, they referred to “mothers” in a story.

I guess its the small victories that we should embrace.

[butlerweave]

Gibberish

[Dilbert San Diego]

Yes, we should embrace small victories like that as steps in the right direction.

I’ve heard some of these awkward terms. Such as, talking about pregnant persons, and specifically avoiding saying pregnant women. And the reason for that is because they don’t want to offend the sensibilities of the one in a million women, who might identify as a man , who could be pregnant.

I know it’s laughable to us, but there are people who take this stuff seriously.

[Sicon]

English has words for numerous family relationships but, unfortunately for us, most of them are gendered

I fail to see the problem.

[Dr. Sivana]

Human relationships are so easy

A Whopper of a false statement from the start. The greatest and most enduring literature of all time is based on the fact that human relationships are complex and difficult.

Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, Hugo all demonstrate this fact, as well as the better historians.

Note that the idiot author rhetorically asks why simole relationships have complex and GENDERED terms, and doesn’t even pause to provide a hypohesis before declaring that nearly all developed humanity everywhere is wrong, and we shouod adopt his gibberish.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

This guy is a small-time author, promoting himself. Details about the still very new website:

whois query on this domain names

Registered On: 2024-10-24
Registrar: Tucows Domains Inc.
Registrant Privacy: Contact Privacy Inc. [ Canada ]

A cursory look to his various blog pages shows few comments, and many are "0 comments." Turns out he runs another blog, about his "writing career."

But---- Note this fellow's legal game [ from the website ] ---

" 'Universal Gender-Neutral English', 'Universal English' and 'UGNE' are trademarks of Shawn C. Butler, the founder of Universal English."

The very simple reality of trademark registration is that an owner of a trademark can sue another for using it. The assertion of owning this trademark seems dubious. Another tried to trademark the simple phrase, "universal english," and it was canceled in 2008. Source: "UNIVERAL ENGLISH" trademark cancellation

The notion is not so new, anyway, as the UN has been pushing this. Source: Gender-inclusive language guidelines(English) Promoting gender equality through the use of language UN women

Shawn C. Butler's blogs seem underwhelming. But he wants to sell you his fiction. Literally.

The whole thing is stupid, as so many languages are fully "gendered" as to declension of nouns and pronouns, to include having verb forms and adjectives agree within phrases and clauses with a particular gender. One of only two, for most. Three for some, as with German. None with "they/them" pronoun BS or "huther."

[Dr. Sivana]

I looked at the author’s list of preferred terms. I have NO idea why he crossed out “meterologist” for “weatherman”,

I also saw that he suggested the word “server” for waiter or waitress.

Does he not know that the word “server” comes from the Latin “servus”, which means “slave”? Use of that term by his way of thinking is FAR more demeaning than simply acknowledging the sex of the person waiting on you.

English, French, Spanish, German . . . all the Indo-European languages have the sex binary plus a neuter informing essential parts of diction and grammar. To be true to his mission, the author would have to start from scratch. Even Esperanto cribs from pre-existing words and structures.

English has 600,000 words. Good luck.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

I wish I cared enough about the topic to read the article. It sounds hilarious.

[left that other site]

A Whopper of a false statement from the start. The greatest and most enduring literature of all time is based on the fact that human relationships are complex and difficult.

You are so right! "happy families are all alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" (First line in Anna Karenina)

[I want the USA back]

I just asked my AI if there’s a language with only one word for both mother and father. The answer showed that there are no non-artificial languages that do that. So it’s abnormal and unnatural to eliminate the distinction between mother and father.

[sauropod]

Good reply. 👍