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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Though I do think men should wear makeup...
I stopped reading right here. Please stay in New York. They deserve you.
Do you ever wonder how many hits on the NYT’s website are attributable to the FR? And I can imagine how they clap their hands and squeal with delight when they think they’re really connecting with the unwashed masses. Just thinkin’ out loud...
“It” is certainly a good choice.
But I suggest that any man who wears makeup ought to be called “she.” Which is probably what they would like to be anyway.
I wonder how all this “they” stuff works in languages like German and French where gender is necessary to describing the world?
I feel sorry for his wife.
It won’t be very long before the LGBTQ crowd will demand that children be given names at birth that would work for either sex. Like Pat, Jan, Terry, Jean, Bobby, etc. So the child could make up his/her mind which “they” wanted to be without pressure of the inconvenient name. A boy named Sue would have a rough time of it.
Or maybe even give them 2 names at birth, one for each sex. And let them choose later. There’s no end to this madness.
“The moment someone uses the “wrong” pronoun, the fascist police swoop down and arrest him.“
That’s the whole point.
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He is NOT the stereotypical cisgendered male. Not even close.
I think the “person” claiming to be the author of the text, with all the personality attributes he claims to have, is a fiction, either created by the writer alone or via a group edit. I think they invented the person the voice in the article is supposed to be.
But if this goes on much longer I might begin to use "it" and "that".
“It” works perfectly for me. It’s non-gender.
Yup. This statement goes along quite nicely with a name like Farhad Manjoo.
Ironically Starbucks has now banned newspapers.
What happens when “non-binary” language meets ebonics? Just wondering.
Oh, and while Manjoo claims to be ‘cisgendered’ I believe they is gay. Queer as a they-dollar bill.
My new pronoun is Quatl.
Him = Quatl.
His = Quatloo.
He = Qua.
If you refuse to refer to me with my correct pronoun, I shall report you to the Language Fascists.
There are two sexes.
Simple biology, you don’t reject science, do you?
The best solution,or rather palliative, for this foolishness is to adopt a foreign word, as usual in English.
There are lots of genderless languages. Most of Southeast Asia for instance speaks some Austronesian tongue, which are all genderless.
In the US the most widely spoken of these is Tagalog (Filipino). The personal pronoun is “siya”, plural “sila”. It is proper to go borrow that word.
Looking deeper, the idea that a genderless language changes the concept of gender in a society is easily disproven by taking a look at societies that use genderless languages.
Faggot ...
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