Right now, Cher's other kid is cracking up.
I would not respond to anyone who feels the need to indicate “their” pronouns to me, verbally or in print. It’s silly. I’m old. I don’t have time for this.
I am too old to remember names let alone pronouns.
Well said.
The only haters are those who hate who or what they are enough to try to change into something else.
I have the right to ignore you, totally, and unless you present yourself as a threat to me, I will never communicate with you. However, if you feel like it is most important for you to force yourself on me, I will eliminate that threat in whatever manner is necessary. Go seek psychiatric help for your obsession to be noticed. You are not welcome here.
I don’t have to buy a ticket to your circus.
A woman I know just announced to the world that she is “queer non-binary” and she said her pronouns would be ‘they and them.’
That’s when I said, “You’re schizophrenic, too?! (It got big laughs.) She then threw a very childish tantrum about intolerant ‘homophobes’ and how she cannot tolerate them. Hmm...
I have thought this, and your expression on the topic mirrors my own thoughts. One side effect of all this is that I have learned to really appreciate a world half filled with real women of many different types. They are really amazing miracles, and that becomes more clear when a mockery of that miracle is forced upon us through every form of mass media and sometimes in public.
I talk the way I talk. They don’t get to control how I talk.
I have never had anyone mention anything about “their” pronouns in real life.
if asked I volunteer my pronouns to the fidiots they are, BITE and ME.
Mine are Hee and Haw
;o)))~
It’s just Gibberish to us
My dog ate my pronouns and now he/she/its everywhere!
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
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”.
Right now, Cher's other kid is cracking up.
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.