Putting an End to the 'Pronoun Game': Pentagon Reverses Gender Pronoun Policy Amid Mounting Criticism

Past Chronicles ^ | 10/19/2023

[Ex-Con777]

>Noises about bringing back a draft—<

This pronoun crap has them in a bind regarding the draft. They will have to battle the public over drafting women or every non-willing man will identify as a woman.

EC

[metmom]

Lord, I hope so.

[TokarevM57]

...agree..... I wonder why it is taking so long for the U.S. Dept of Defense to mandate changing the rank titles for our troops....Midshippersons at Annapolis; Airpersons for the Air Force; “Every he/she/they/them a rifleperson!!” for the Marines’ Aviation Ordnanceperson for the Navy, and so on....

[Petrosius]

Those who object to “-man” as a suffix are just showing their ignorance. “Man” comes from the German “mann” and just means “person” or “human.” This is the original, and still current, generic meaning of the word. The original English word for a male was “wer,” which has dropped out of the language except for the two words “werewolf” and “wergeld.”

[Verginius Rufus]

English "wer" is cognate with Latin vir meaning "man" (cf. English "virile"). Latin had the word homo used for a human being irrespective of sex. Greek also had different words for "man" in the sense of "male" and "man" in the sense of "human being."

[csn vinnie]

It’s about time “they” got a clue.