Posted on 10/22/2021 11:24:01 AM PDT by DallasBiff
“Danielle Miller says her 11-year-old child, who identifies as non-binary or gender fluid, was punished for having hair to their shoulder.”
So where does an 11 year old get ideas about being
non-binary or gender fluid?
Sesame Street?
Teacher?
Social Media?
A screwed up Parent? ...ding ding ding ... we have a winner
Wow, thank you, I never thought the old lady teacher who always stated that grammar was important prophecy, would come true.
them other of the innocent child who was brainwashed into thinking they are another sex is to blame for irreparable mental damage to the child-
These children are not identifying as non-binary. It is their parents (typically single mothers) who are identifying their children as non-binary, usually for the attention and the TikTok videos. It's something like Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
“The concept of antecedent agreement, and indeed of prescriptive rules for grammar, are about 3 generations vanished.”
I looked over an English book about eight years or so ago, and pronoun/antecedent agreement was there.
I also notice that it still appears in any recently written work.
However, grammar has been out of fashion for at least twenty years. That means that in another twenty years, people won’t be able to communicate with the written word.
Nothing wrong with long hair unless operating certain types of machinery. Prohibitions against hair length are stupid.
Odawg: Fair enough. I agree, it’s still in the books.
I suggest that until TikTok puts in a grammar filter (/snark) few of that set will care.
In academia it’s the forever war, descriptivist vs prescriptivist. I fear our side, the side of proper grammar and language ability, is losing.
Oh well. Bigger fish to fry?
All the best.
The ACLU has long since fallen prey to leftist political disposition. Curious, because it infers that there are varying standards of law determined by one’s political persuasion. T
his is certainly in opposition to the charter of ACLU, unless one determines that civil liberties are a function of politics and not an absolute standard.
What civil liberty is infringed when a prepubescent child is encouraged to make a determination about their sex that they are, by virtue of their biological condition, incapable of making? And how, precisely, is that determinative of hair length?
Isn’t that called a mullet.
Give me a head with hair, long beautiful hair.
Shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen.
Give me down to there hair, shoulder length or longer hair
Here baby, there, momma, ev’rywhere, daddy, daddy.
Nothing new under the Sun
The there’s The Who’s “Tattoo”
Our old man didn’t like our appearance
He said that only women wear long hair
If you were a guy with short hair in the early to mid 70s, you were a dweeb.
Cut your hair, look like a boy or a man. If you don’t like it mommy find another school that takes deviants.
Tristan is non-binary, which is something many people are still learning about.
Tristan is non-binary, which is something many people made up.
We don’t let our hair grow long and shaggy Like the hippies in San Francisco do…
11-year-olds don’t have the mental machinery to “identify” as “non-binary” or “gender fluid”.
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