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Gender pronouns confusing? Here’s what you should know
CBS News Local ^ | march 11, 2023 | by Amanda Arden

Posted on 03/11/2023 6:40:50 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – In the last decade, gender pronouns have become a much more common sight to see and hear – both in social media profiles, in their email signatures, on patches and pins, and when they introduce themselves.

As the fight for LGBTQ+ equality and rights continues, many people have publicly announced that they’re non-binary and use they/them pronouns.

When people share their pronouns, they’re explaining how they self-identify and how they’d like others to refer to them.

The best thing to do when someone shares their pronouns is to use them.

According to GLSEN, a group that provides resources for educators to use with LGBTQ youth, using a person’s pronouns is a first step toward showing respect for their identity and creating a more welcoming space.

The pronouns he and she are used in discussing other people and are gendered pronouns.

People can also use non-gendered or gender-neutral pronouns such as they/them, ze/zir, ze/hir, xe/xem, fe/fem, ey/em, co/co, or per/per.

Some of these, such as ze/sem and fe/fem, are known as neo pronouns, and are what some nonbinary, gender diverse, transgender and genderqueer people use.

Other people ask to be described by a variety of pronouns such as she/they, or any pronouns. Some ask that they be referred to only by their name, asking that no pronouns be used in reference to them.

(Excerpt) Read more at koin.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: culturewar; democrats; homosexualagenda; neopronouns; perverts; pronouns; transsupremacy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Here’s what you should know“

What l know is it is a bunch of BS.


41 posted on 03/11/2023 7:16:27 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They’re not confusing, they’re offensive. If the Left can get away with being offended by every little thing, we should give it back to them in spades (can I still use ‘spade’?!!)...


42 posted on 03/11/2023 7:20:17 AM PST by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You are either XX or XY. Anything else is freak show lunacy.


43 posted on 03/11/2023 7:20:54 AM PST by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They should ID as ‘moron’. Non gender specific and available in as many flavors as they can think up.


44 posted on 03/11/2023 7:21:36 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If have to deal directly with one of these mentally off balance people, ask their name and use it, no pro nouns. I don’t play into mental illness.


45 posted on 03/11/2023 7:21:51 AM PST by Pigsley (I)
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To: PROCON

You and youse still works fine


46 posted on 03/11/2023 7:23:56 AM PST by bigbob
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Don’t hire them if they include them on their resume. Nbt.


47 posted on 03/11/2023 7:25:18 AM PST by DouglasKC
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s actually quite simple. XY chromosomes = he/him, XX chromosomes = she/her.


48 posted on 03/11/2023 7:26:05 AM PST by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Languages have genders. People have sexes. End of discussion.


49 posted on 03/11/2023 7:29:13 AM PST by bravo whiskey (Annie Savoy : The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self awareness. )
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To: AlaskaErik
It’s actually quite simple. XY chromosomes = he/him, XX chromosomes = she/her.

That's why I carry my microscope wherever I go.

50 posted on 03/11/2023 7:29:44 AM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I haven’t run into any of these mental perverts and have to deal with pronoun confusion, but I do know one thing. I will not pervert the American language.


51 posted on 03/11/2023 7:30:28 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: freedumb2003
I have a Masters.....I honestly have thought about requiring people at work to address me in that manner.

Imagine how that'd go over!!

52 posted on 03/11/2023 7:36:02 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

just call them by name, nothing else...


53 posted on 03/11/2023 7:38:03 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Gender pronouns confusing? Well they are pure Gibberish


54 posted on 03/11/2023 7:42:44 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If someone tells me their pronouns...I will laugh (huge guffaw) and walk away.

That’ll also be the last time I ever talk to them.


55 posted on 03/11/2023 7:46:18 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Confusing?? aaahhhh no. simply male and female. end of story...


56 posted on 03/11/2023 7:46:38 AM PST by sit-rep ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

His, has a penis. Hers, has a vagina. Only a DNA test can be 100% sure.


57 posted on 03/11/2023 7:47:55 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: ealgeone

>>I have a Masters.....I honestly have thought about requiring people at work to address me in that manner.
Imagine how that’d go over!!<<

If that means you work in higher ed then it would not work well as that is where this fascist insanity came from.

I have thought about formalizing it (I am semi-retired from the IT industry) but too many people take that crap seriously. These are people who still have the delusion tht “diversity is productive” although there are zero double-blind tests/studies that say so.


58 posted on 03/11/2023 7:52:02 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Difference between a cow and the US Capitol 1/6 "riot:" you can only milk a cow 3 times a day)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

anything other than “he” or “her”, just refer to as a sh!t head. That’s a neutral term.


59 posted on 03/11/2023 7:55:48 AM PST by babygene (Make America Great Again)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I do not think when speaking to a person, I would say, Kalisnikov, do blast bang think identifying splat whomp are causing me to snigger and laugh while speaking to blast bang?

Control freaks, they are

I would avoid Kalisnikov like the plague.


60 posted on 03/11/2023 8:01:19 AM PST by OpusatFR
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