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Call Me ‘They’: The singular “they” is inclusive and flexible, and it breaks the stifling [tr]
NY Times ^ | July 10, 2019 | Farhad Manjoo

Posted on 07/14/2019 5:37:00 AM PDT by C19fan

I am your stereotypical, cisgender, middle-aged suburban dad. I dabble in woodworking, I take out the garbage, and I covet my neighbor’s Porsche. Though I do think men should wear makeup (it looks nice!), my tepid masculinity apparently rings loudly enough online and in person that most people guess that I go by “he” and “him.” And that’s fine; I will not be offended if you refer to me by those traditional, uselessly gendered pronouns.

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1 posted on 07/14/2019 5:37:00 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan
Though I do think men should wear makeup...

No reason to read a word beyond this...

2 posted on 07/14/2019 5:43:24 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: C19fan

The pansy has the pronouns changed on hi Wikipedia page. What a frikken waste of human cells.


3 posted on 07/14/2019 5:43:39 AM PDT by raybbr (The left is a poison on society. There is no antidote. Running its course will be painful. You)
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To: C19fan

Just more proof of how mentally unstable homosexuals can be.


4 posted on 07/14/2019 5:44:08 AM PDT by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and Americans!)
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To: C19fan

We should give serious consideration to creating a new country for these...er...things.

And sending them there.


5 posted on 07/14/2019 5:45:25 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: C19fan

In this usage, is the plural of “they” “thorrn”?


6 posted on 07/14/2019 5:45:55 AM PDT by House Atreides (Boycott the NFL 100% — PERMANENTLY)
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To: C19fan

Won’t subscribe to read crap


7 posted on 07/14/2019 5:47:35 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: C19fan

“Call me they..”

No. I won’t.

Your move.

L


8 posted on 07/14/2019 5:49:02 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Sicon

“No reason to read a word beyond this... “

I stopped reading at “cisgender”.


9 posted on 07/14/2019 5:51:59 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: Sicon

Yep, I stopped reading there too.


10 posted on 07/14/2019 5:52:05 AM PDT by dinodino
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To: C19fan

Mark 5:9 And he [Jesus] asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.


11 posted on 07/14/2019 5:52:06 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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I am your stereotypical, cisgender, middle-aged suburban dad.

stereotypical ???

I think he should pop open a dictionary to look up the definition of that word...

Most middle-aged suburban dads think wearing make makes you at least weird, probably a trannie or a faggot. (a bundle of sticks) !!!

12 posted on 07/14/2019 5:52:27 AM PDT by Popman
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How would that work in a police report searching for a robbery suspect?


13 posted on 07/14/2019 5:52:44 AM PDT by rintintin (q)
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To: Lurker

How does this work with animals? Do people who don’t want gender specific pronouns also refer to their pets as they? If he/she are going to subscribe to this crap, they might as well go all the way with it.


14 posted on 07/14/2019 5:53:08 AM PDT by skams19
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To: C19fan

Calling him “it” works just as well for me, and is grammatically better than using a plural word.


15 posted on 07/14/2019 5:57:08 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Sicon

Yep...that kinda killed it for me also.


16 posted on 07/14/2019 5:57:17 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: C19fan

Proving to us all everyday that it is a mental disease


17 posted on 07/14/2019 5:58:39 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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Insanity. No language can function with a separate pronoun for each person. Language functions in generalities, with one pronoun for men, one for women, and another for things.

It is impossible to have a system in which each person has a unique pronoun. No one can remember all the pronouns. The moment someone uses the “wrong” pronoun, the fascist police swoop down and arrest him.

“They” is not inclusive and flexible. They is for more than one person or thing.

I have a solution: each person already has a unique designator: his or her name. So, instead of referring to a person with a pronoun, we simply use his or her name. So you never need to remember if that one “uses” “zey,” “zot,” “zim,” “zer,” or whatever the hell else they invented.


18 posted on 07/14/2019 6:00:14 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: bk1000
“I stopped reading at “cisgender”.

LOL! Yeah, I could have saved myself a few more seconds doing that too.

19 posted on 07/14/2019 6:01:18 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Cincinnatus.45-70

Man: I had to read to the very end of comments to find what to me is the obvious pronoun to call this person. IT. makes sense to me. Totally without any humanized context. About as neutral as can be.


20 posted on 07/14/2019 6:05:20 AM PDT by TexasPaul (TexasPaul)
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