If someone demands you use their pronouns not derived from merely observing nature, tell them you don’t participate in other people’s crazy.
And yet corporations and schools and health care orgs and government and, and, and, and all dutifully fall in line and say “Yessir...we will declare our pronouns.”
My pronouns are, leave/me/alone.
The solution is so simple: Merely discontinue three pronoun genders and establish only one, neither masculine, feminine, nor neuter—or perhaps only neuter.
Stand your ground. I refuse to be a “birthing person” and not “Dad”. I will not play that game under any circumstances.
When I was young my grandmother sent me a letter.
The salutation began with “Master” followed by my name.
That was a now obsolete form of polite address for a young man.
If anyone is ever dumb enough to ask for my pronouns Master is what I will go with.
My pronouns are “Your Royal Highness” and “Kingy-poo”!
Well, if someone doesn’t like “he” or “she”, English does provide a very concise word as another option.
“It”.
Kamala at meeting: I am Kamala Harris and my pronouns are she and her. I am a woman in a blue suit.
With that, KH showed herself to be a totally unserious person, not “presidential” material ... try that garbage with Putin, Xi, etc al & they will laugh her out of the room.
Tired of the article the.
My pronouns are you/you.
He’s correct saying “society is awash in the language of division and ‘manufactured’ sensitivity, amplified a million-fold by electronic/social media.”.......
what is crazy is, that I just discovered if you mentioned you are offended by a movie pushing the gay agenda, rotten tomatoes delete your review!
because it’s supposedly HATE speech!
WTH
To heck with your selfish pronouns.
Id rather know what your adjectives are.
Kindness, strength, honesty.... and so on.
We’re expected to change the language to accommodate less than 1% of the population who have issues. What’s worse than an individual using actual plural pronouns are the words that are completely made up — ze, zim, etc. Who can keep up with that? I ain’t playing.
All of the accommodation of this class of people reminds me of the “Seinfeld” episode in which Lloyd Braun has just been released from the mental hospital and Kramer bends over the backwards to make sure Braun has no doubts about his sanity.
Braun: “Am I crazy, or did I see Jerry wearing glasses?”
Kramer: “Of course, you’re not crazy! Jerry has always worn glasses.” (And then he makes Jerry wear glasses around Braun.)
And Braun decides to order an old roller hot dog at a theater snack bar:
Snack Bar Guy: “Are you crazy? That hot dog has been around since the silent era!”
Kramer: No, he isn’t crazy!
Snack Bar Buy: You’d have to be INSANE to eat that!
Kramer: Why, that’s a perfectly SANE thing to eat! Here, let me have it. (And he promptly throws up.)
I will still be using the pronoun that fits......... freak
someone’s got zir panties in a wad
My pronouns are Zethstra and Cjubuphloxyl (the “p” is both invisible and silent); but only for another 8 minutes; they change daily. Microaggress me at your peril, simpleminded bigot!
People who publish pronouns are too intellectually inferior and weak to stop doing it since the only reason they do it in the first place is simply to conform to what everyone else is doing.
Humans are weak, folks.