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Take back your pronouns! They're not mine, they're yours!
Self ^ | 29 December 2023 | MeganC

Posted on 12/29/2023 8:33:13 AM PST by MeganC

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To: Liberty Valance

LOL!


21 posted on 12/29/2023 9:58:49 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: MeganC

We could just call each other Comrade.


22 posted on 12/29/2023 10:06:18 AM PST by oldasrocks
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To: MeganC

My dog ate my pronouns and now he/she/its everywhere!


23 posted on 12/29/2023 10:08:39 AM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Love it!!!! I might have gone with “Supreme Ruler” or “Universal Law-giver.”

That’s why I always had to work for myself, my wife worked in the corporate world and always said I wouldn’t last through the first staff meeting.


24 posted on 12/29/2023 10:09:21 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: outofsalt

Stealing!


25 posted on 12/29/2023 10:13:22 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: metmom
Well said. It’s that or some kind of possession, mental or spiritual.

I’ve read that there are a LOT of unclean spirits roaming the Earth nowadays and it would suck to have one or more attach itself or themselves onto some poor unsuspecting and perhaps sympathetic person.

If such a spirit was a stronger personality, it could cause that poor soul some serious confusion and major distress in some bizarre inner fight for power and identity, resulting in all the sexual, gender bending madness we are witnessing now in so many people everywhere.

Seems very end of times to me and it seems to be happening now in our times.

26 posted on 12/29/2023 10:40:57 AM PST by GBA (Endeavor to persevere)
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To: MeganC

Take back your mink
Take back your pearls
What made you think
That I was one of those girls?
Take back the gown
The gloves and the hat
I may be down
But I’m not flat as all that.

—Frank Loesser


27 posted on 12/29/2023 10:45:13 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: SaxxonWoods

“I wouldn’t last through the first staff meeting.”

The words “staff meeting” trigger a visceral reaction in my stomach, even after being retired for 15 years.


28 posted on 12/29/2023 11:08:11 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ("A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once.")
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To: MeganC

I suggest that if anyone feels compelled to use someone’s preferred pronoun because not doing so could result in some severe punishment, such as losing a job, then consider using scare quotes.

Scare quotes in writing usually mean putting the word in question in quotation marks. For example, I graded “her” paper and “she” earned an A. Similarly, making the peace sign with both hands indicates scare quotes. In other words, these are someone else’s words that you are merely quoting.

A one-handed peace sign may be enough to convey the thought. Or, even merely emphasizing the pronoun. For example, “That was herrrrr assignment”.


29 posted on 12/29/2023 12:01:14 PM PST by unlearner (I, Robot: I think I finally understand why Dr. Lanning created me... ;-)
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To: MeganC
That's just an ugly woman with a beard.

Right now, Cher's other kid is cracking up.


30 posted on 12/29/2023 12:10:56 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: MeganC
Which is why I say that I do not have any "personal pronouns" because pronouns are how other people refer to me based upon their perfectly legitimate perceptions.

There are plenty of first-person pronouns that would refer to your person. I/me/my to get started
31 posted on 12/29/2023 12:22:50 PM PST by Svartalfiar
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To: unlearner

Or you can just kick “her” in “her” balls.


32 posted on 12/29/2023 2:07:48 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: Svartalfiar

“There are plenty of first-person pronouns that would refer to your person. I/me/my to get started”

Agreed. But if those were my “personal pronouns” I’d be insisting that you refer to me as “I/me/my” in place of ‘she’ or ‘her’.

Which is nonsensical.

And that’s my point.


33 posted on 12/29/2023 2:10:08 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: SaxxonWoods
"Stealing!"

Me, grabbing loot around here!


34 posted on 12/29/2023 2:31:02 PM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: GBA

Any demonic spirit is going to have a stronger personality than a human.

People without Jesus have no defense against the attacks of the enemy.


35 posted on 12/30/2023 5:41:42 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: MeganC

I’ve said this many times. Pronouns belong to the person speaking...not to the person being spoken of. Don’t dictate to me my speech.


36 posted on 12/30/2023 5:47:47 AM PST by CFW (I will not comply!)
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To: metmom
Yes, of course. You are absolutely correct in all you said.

We suffer from demonic influences and some choose to be lead by them. This has always been so, but much more so the further/farther we get from God and certainly so in the end of these times as foretold.

Believers know that Jesus is the Answer to all such problems.

In these times, I’m trying to be an observer of, but not a participant in, the world as much as I can be.

No expert here, so I don’t know the difference between demonic spirits and unclean spirits, or what you call the lost souls roaming among the living, who, for whatever reason, didn’t go into the light (or whatever happens when we die and leave the body) and go to God.

Knowing that I lack discernment and that I’m still learning, I try to remain open to the Holy Spirit’s instruction and am refraining from judging so I don’t inadvertently call a good thing a bad thing.

37 posted on 12/30/2023 10:37:18 AM PST by GBA (Endeavor to persevere)
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