I have seen the term "gender " used routinely on electrical connector packaging since my days as a lad in the '70s hanging out at Radio Shack and scouring the Lafayette catalogue.
Posted on 01/29/2024 3:28:56 PM PST by lowbridge
The European Union has just run crosswise with Captain James T. Kirk, and by any measure the Captain is right to blast Europe’s left-wing, nanny state, cancel culture, loons for their latest “diversity” move.
This week, news broke that the EU — which apparently stands for Entirely Useless — is looking to make the world safe from evil “gendered” words, like man, male, guys, and anything testosterone related, The Telegraph reported.
This impinges directly on one of Captain Kirk’s most famous lines, the one that serves as the opening monologue to the famed 1966 series, “Star Trek.”
TV viewers and sci fi fans everywhere will recall that the iconic TV series starts out with views of the Starship Enterprise zooming across the screen as Captain Kirk intones “Space, the final frontier,” and ends his soliloquy with “to boldly go where no man has gone before.”
But the EU is suddenly all shook up over that evil word “man” and is now sending out its royal edict that the word should henceforth be banned from use.
According to the Telegraph, “The classic ”Star Trek’ line, ‘To boldly go where no man has gone before,’ is also cited as an example where ‘women may be subject to invisibility or omission.'”
William Shatner, who briefly actually reached space during a Blue Origin flight in 2021, is the man who so ably portrayed Captain James T. Kirk, and he is not amused.
With news of the new authoritarian mandate, Shatner, who often blasts the childish, left-wing, social justice warrior trolls online, jumped to his X account to blast the legislators.
“Presentism at work yet again,” he said in his Monday post.
“Why start at Trek? Isn’t it better to start at the beginning and redo foundation material such as the Magna Carta, religious writings,
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When our societies and technological advances crumble...we’ll too busy, scrounging our next meal, protecting ourselves from the elements, animals, disease, and others, to be concerned about gender identities
Roddenberry liked women in short skirts. That’s why the women had outfits like they did. Almost all the women on the show had little to do with equity.
P.S. Nurse Chappel was Roddenberry’s real life wife.
Sulu, fire photon torpedoes at the big building in Brussels!
I scrolled back to the top. I was sure this was The Babylon Bee.
Jerry was a pretty funny character..
That was brilliantly satirized in the 1999 movie Galaxy Quest - which was almost a Star Trek TOS documentary. :)
I never saw a single episode, but someone sent me that one!
I respect William Shatner for a very simple reason-he somehow manages to take himself completely seriously, while at the same time, completely NOT taking himself seriously.
I have no idea how he does that!
“Romulans are attacking!
Picard: Everyone to the conference room for a staff meeting!”
You nailed it.
Welcome to .gov and corporate America today.
The staff meeting is always long and boring—and ends by scheduling the next staff meeting.
;-)
Actually I was/am confused!
I think the correct word is polysemy, and not homonym. The similarity of word is no more accidental than “Dog”.
So the EU is polysemyphobic?
It may not matter, as to object to the wording is revisionist wokism. The Enterprise had plenty of women on it.
And the only invisibility of women was via the transporter. Deep space, "where no man has gone before without women."
Speaking of revisionist wokism this is exampled by the wanton warring wordcraft of a wokeism warrior against what God ordained, by a feminist who is employed from a college founded in 1824 by Episcopal Bishop Philander Chase, but now has a potential candidate ("Brianna Thompson") for the office of implementation WOKE policies under the auspices of a Council of Transexuality:
"...intersections with race, ethnicity, coloniality, class and ability, the sex/gender system of oppression has long served as a taxonomizing apparatus. And yet, the literary, in league with anticolonial, civil rights and LGBTQ social movements,...animates the liberatory potential of imagining embodied relations otherwise... representations of gender and sexuality can leverage critiques against normativity...Taking our transnational cue from subjugated knowledges and intersectional epistemologies, we’ll constellate the diverging genealogies and methodologies...
Against the traffic of binary opposition, we’ll index the possibilities of intimacy and performativity... As a class collective, our aim is to read and reread as well as write and rewrite texts that interrogate and complicate how gender and sexuality, as contested sites of pleasure and pain, are embodied and experienced."
This counts toward the methods requirement for the major. Prerequisite: ENGL 103 or 104. Open only to first-year and sophomore students.
Author is Brianna Thompson, who teaches courses in American women’s literature, queer theory and utopias/Afrofuturism at Kenyon college (founded by Episcopal Bishop in 1824). Course is Reading and Writing Gender and Sexuality ENGL 214, https://www.kenyon.edu/academics/departments-and-majors/english/academic-program-requirements/courses-in-english/
“We can also just keep changing language incessantly...”
According to Genesis, the way Satan tricked the WOMAN was to distort the language, telling her God didn’t really say what He said. Then she seduced the MAN into joining in.
If you ask me, anybody who gets hung up, or offended, and claims changing the language will fix it, especially if they demand you join in, is following Satan’s instructions.
(Don’t get me wrong - Jesus said we should be kind when speaking to one another, but that’s not what this woke crap is. It’s an attempt to control others, and in many cases, get them to sin, or accept sin - he/she/zim/ziss...)
Lobotomy is the only known cure for brains that spew out such word salad.
He did steal some of Chekhov’s lines.
Sadly, there seems to be a market for it, and or Soros society is paying such poor souls as part of the liberal elite in today's "higher education."
“Higher education” like that needs to be shut down and the space used for homeless shelters.
Liberals’ war on men is going to backfire big time in the EU...
Male, female, and hermaphrodite are biological, not grammatical categories. The word “gender” is often, too often for my taste, as a squeamish euphemism for “sex”, as in the packaging you showed, but strictly speaking, gender is a grammatical, not a biological category, assuming the states of masculine, feminine and neuter. Male, female, and hermaphroditic are never gender categories.
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