Posted on 03/20/2019 4:23:48 PM PDT by RightGeek
I realize I'm just another dumb white cishet male and therefore the source of all the problems in the world, but I am utterly baffled by the growing insistence that gender pronouns are a matter of opinion.
Back in the old days, when "science" wasn't just a word you threw at a political opponent to make him shut up about the weather, you had boys and girls. Men and women. He and she, him and her, his and hers. Easy to remember, and backed up by an ancient system of arcane witchcraft called "biology." Sure, you had people who weren't so easily categorized, like Prince and Rosie O'Donnell, but they were the exception. Most people were at peace with the fate dictated by their chromosomes. It was all good, man.
In 2019, now that we've apparently run out of absolutely anything else to worry about, more and more men and women are insisting they're neither men nor women. They're "nonbinary." And if you address them by the same pronouns you used as recently as a year ago? They'll call the cops.
Now we're supposed to use "they" as a gender pronoun. Not "he" or "she," but "they." As in: "There goes Dale, they work in my office. I'm their colleague. Pretty nice individual, once you get to know them." Imagine being so confused about yourself that you insist on being identified as a plural.
It reminds me of that old sketch "It's Pat!" on SNL, where nobody could figure out which gender Pat was. Except now we're not supposed to laugh, even when the answer is "neither."
You're free to call yourself whatever you want, but you can't force me to comply. Not in America, at least. Not yet.
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1. Create a plethora of laws.
2. Selectively enforce them.
Just being funny. Maybe though wear a sign that says “My name is .....” and make it generic so people know male, female or other.
It’s mind boggling.
It’s like it just reaches a certain point, then virtually everyone becomes stupid and insane.
I can’t believe it has happened so rapidly.
But then Jesus said, like birth pangs coming upon a pregnant woman...
This problem is simple to solve. There are two genders: Gozintas and Gozoutas.
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We get saturated with pc in all daily activities anymore it seems.
Even in the Showtime series “Billions” there is a character named Taylor Mason who the show carefully always refers to as ‘they’, ‘their’.
OOOOOK.
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