Posted on 04/12/2021 5:39:46 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Showing that it is never possible to be too self-centered, forward-looking LGBTQ+ people are bending the English language toward their navels for gazing.
In the late 1970s, at a Peter, Paul & Mary concert, Paul Stookey noted how American magazines once had big names, with scope, such as Life or National Geographic. The scope shrank with People magazine. Then, in 1977, a new magazine appeared: Us. With this trajectory, Paul predicted, the next magazine would have only a reflective sheet inside. It would be called Me. Based on the New York Times article about self-referential “neopronouns,” it’s clear that Paul’s prediction has come to pass and then some.
When I read in PowerLine about “neopronouns,” a trend that sees LGBTQ+ people essentially personalizing their pronouns, I thought it was a joke. It’s not. Instead, there is indeed an article entitled “A Guide to Neopronouns: Are you a person, place or thing? We have good news.”
In my world, there are only a very few personal pronouns, and they’re the classics: I/Me/We, You, He/Him, She/Her, It, They/Them/Their – that kind of thing. However, that’s not the case among a certain subset of Americans, most notably the LGBTQ+ crowd.
A few years ago, we all used to laugh at the creative pronouns that so-called “non-binary” people concocted to avoid both human biology and the traditional He/Him or She/Her pronouns.
SNIP
No, no. Let me explain. A “neopronoun” is what happens when people become so extraordinarily self-centered that they believe the entire English language revolves around them – not them as a collective (all gays, all lesbians, all anything else), but “them” as in every single person.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
How about (*)?
If you don't want to be called he/she him/her or they/them... Then I'll just call you snowflake or one of the few words in Spanish I know that decorum prevents me from typing here. I figure snowflake is gender neutral. You want to be gender-stupid, you can be gender-stupid. Know that I am laughing at you a little bit every single time I say/type it.
If I work with someone from Russia, Germany, or India and they don’t speak perfect English, I will get in trouble if I express unhappiness with how they talk. They’re not perfect. It’s OK. If there is a problem, the problem is me and my intolerance for their language and cultural differences. I better change. Or else.
If I work with a transgender, and I don’t use pronouns perfectly, I will get in trouble when they express unhappiness with how I talk. If there is a problem, the problem is me and my language and cultural difference. I better change. Or else.
A friend recently asked how I would like my grandchildren to address me as they grow up (grand-dad, pop-pop, nonno, etc.) I responded, “Sir will be fine.”
A few months ago, the large multi-national bank I work for had our charming and delightful HR Department send us all an email with a link to select our "preferred pronouns."
At the end of a very long list was an option to check a box "Other" and type in our own.
Being the shit-stirrer that I am, I decided to check "Other" and typed in "Lord Master Hizzog of the Planet Zork!" and submitted the form.
Unbeknownst to me at the time, a back end script then went on to update my email signature, my Microsoft Teams profile, HR profile and more. It wasn't long before I got a call from HR to ask me to "change my preferred pronoun" to something on the list, to which I replied "I did! You gave me the option to choose "Other" and create my own so that's what I did."
It wasn't long before co-workers noticed what I did and I started getting calls asking how I did it, so I told them.
Then I started getting the emails about "how to change my preferred pronoun" again, so I deleted them and ignored them. I didn't open them up, I just deleted them.
Knowing what was coming next, I consulted with my GF who's a retired HR Professional and she told me what to say & do.
So when the phone call came from HR that they "strongly recommended" I change my preferred pronoun, I replied "Ok, I'll change it -- but you may not like it." That statement was met by a threat to involve the bank's Corporate Attorney to which I replied: "Please tell so-and-so I said hello and that I miss our days playing in the band together." The silence on the phone was deafening.
The phone calls and emails stopped and these months later I still have "Lord Master Hizzog of the Planet Zork!" as my preferred pronoun on every email, every Microsoft Teams chat, my HR Profile, etc.. And there's not a damn' thing they can do about it because they gave me the option to choose "Other" and fill in my own. Once that was done, they had zero legal recourse to make me change it.
Now, they can find a reason to fire me and frankly, I say go ahead and do it. That itself would get me out of a legal burden I do not want to carry anymore and would force my worthless, fat, stupid hypocritical ex-wife to get off her fat ass and get a job. :-)
Either way, I win.
I’m supposed to accept everyone else’s opinions but they’re expected to be intolerant of mine. Got it.
How bout GR’s. Gods Rejects.
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Without checking first, I guessed that this was from Monty Python. Then I checked. I was right.
The world is becoming one big Monty Python skit.
That is funny.
You are “Clearly” not in a preferred group. Just look at your screen name!
Professor Sir Sir Adrian Furrows F.R.S. F.R.C.S.F.R.C.P. M.D.M.S. (Oxon), Mall Ph.D., M. Se. (Cantab), Ph.D. (Syd), ER.G.S., F.R.C.O.G., F. FM.R.C.S., M.S. (Birm), M.S. (Liv), M.S. (Guadalahara), M.S. (Karach), M.S. (Edin), B.A. (Chic), B. Litt. (Phil), D. Litt (Phil), D. Litt (Arthur and Lucy), D. Litt (Ottawa), D. Litt (All other places in Canada, except Medicine Hat), B. Sc. 9 Brussels, Liege, Antwerp, Asse, (and Cromer)
... and ...
Raymond Luxury-Yacht (but it’s pronounced Throatwobbler Mangrove) applaud
Best part is it’s true. 100%. Co-workers adopted the same “demonstrating absurdity by being absurd” attitude and have done it also. Making a mockery out of stupid policies (and stupid laws ..) is highly effective. There’s strength in numbers. :-)
My pronoun from here after is Go EF Yourself.
With lots of Biggus Dickuses!
Gina Carano got a target on her back when she added beep/bop/boop as her pronouns. While she wasn’t serious about that, her detractors eviscerated her over it, to the point that Disney canned her.
I refer to the freak asst secretary of HHS as hi/him and sometimes it.
FWIW this is the best pronunciation of your neopronoun I’ve heard yet...
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