Posted on 10/21/2020 5:26:57 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
What’s the first thing you do when meeting someone new? Exchange pronouns, of course, to make sure you refer to each other accurately. But what if you didn’t have to do that?
Meet Earl Thornton. He has this amazing ability to guess people’s pronouns instantly -- just by looking at them. And he’s almost never wrong.
“I don’t know, it just feels like I’ve always been able to do this,” said Thornton, who is very humble about his nearly supernatural ability. “I just look at somebody, and then before I can even think, I have their pronouns in my head.”
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The late Miss Cleo has officially been upstaged!
DANG!
Yeah? Let’s see him try that at an Auntie Fa protest. He’d be lucky to hit 50%.
He or She. I can do 50% blindfolded. Somewhat better if I can see them but nowadays, probably no better than 90%.
How many now on here are actually old enough to remember that one?
Janet Reno still lives or is it Stephen King?
I went through this crap in an EMT class. They asked what our preferred pronoun was. I refused to answer. The instructor asked, “How do you want people to refer to you; what pronoun should they use?” I answered, “You; like ‘You’ just did.”” “No” she said, “Do you prefer he, she they, zee, etc.” I challenged her to come up with a situation in which she would have a conversation with me using the third person pronoun or even the first person pronoun. Of course she couldn’t. You would never say to someone, “How is he feeling?” When addressing them directly (Actually, it would have to be, How are he feeling, to keep verb tenses correct.). I have seen egotistical athletes refer to themselves in the first person, but they ARE nuts.
Could be Bill Gates.
How can you forget someone who burnt people alive and murderer potential whistleblowers.
Good for you! And excellent grammatical lesson retort to that kook instructor.
Did she teach you how to ask an unconscious auto accident victim about their preferred pronoun?
My eyes!
I can always guess a democrat’s pronouns... it’s always Duh.
I remember Janet Waco Reno.
She was teaching us that when we approached a patient, after introducing ourselves, we were to ask their name and preferred pronoun. Just the conversation you want to have if you have a compu8nd fracture, isn’t it? You can call me Mary Poppins, for all I care, just as long as you help me.
I worked with a fire fighter from the UK doing large Animal Technical Rescue (ATR). He told me of a call where an obese woman on a second floor of a small home in the UK had a medical emergency. He said there was no way to get her down the stairs and even if they could, it was unlikely it would have supported the woman, stretcher, and all the firefighters/response personnel needed to carry her. The decision was made to call the ATR unit as they had the equipment to move large animals. The patient was distraught that an Animal Technical Rescue unit saved her and filed a complaint. Soon afterward, they became simply Technical Rescue.
I do a lot of Cal Fire work. They frequently are sued when dropping retardant on homes or cars or when the rip out a gate. As a dozer operator I have dozed decks and other structures away from homes (Always under direction.) and they are frequently sued for doing so.
The NYPD was criticized for dragging people out of burning buildings (It’s faster and safer as it doesn’t lift the victim into an area with less air and greater heat that would almost certainly kill an unprotected person.).
Again, I don’t care if an ATR unit saves my fat butt or they destroy property for a greater good. I get it. Just do your best.
Friends had their deck seriously charred in the Camp Fire which destroyed the town of Paradise, CA. But the house didn’t burn. I’m sure they wouldn’t have been unhappy if the deck had been bulldozed away from the house. But you never know.
I can’t believe people would sue CalFire for that preventative measure. Lose the deck but save the house and people are mad? What idiots.
I went through ‘training’ like that.
I told the little moderator (facilitator?) person that I was raised to never call anyone by a pronoun in their presence - it’s impolite to refer to someone as ‘he’ or ‘she’ or ‘they’ when they are present. You must refer to them by name, to be polite. (I judiciously left out the thought that when they aren’t present, what does it matter...)
Seemed to impress some of the other coerced people in the ‘class’ who would have preferred to never have been there.
Maybe “Your Majesty” would have been an appropriate answer.
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