Pronoun War XXXIV
Good grief. The journalist asks the minister if refusing to use luxury pronouns is unlawful discrimination, and the minister refuses to answer that question, saying it’s an individual case and it’s for the court to decide. The journalist keeps repeating that that’s not what he’s asking, he’s not asking about the individual case, he’s asking what the law is. Minister persists in changing the subject. Dude. What is the law? Does the law make it a crime to use ordinary pronouns?
Also maddening: the minister keeps calling it “basic courtesy” to remember everyone’s specialty pronouns. Nonsense. It’s not basic at all. Basic courtesy would be not expecting anyone to remember any information about oneself, because people have other things to do.
>> Nonsense. It’s not basic at all. Basic courtesy would be not expecting anyone to remember any information about oneself, because people have other things to do.
Ahhhhh, men.
Being a normal person in the current climate is actually exhausting and confusing, given how much time and brain power we’re demanded to dedicate to not knowing what we know, not seeing what we see, not saying what’s obvious, and ignoring the needs of ourselves and those in need in order to accommodate an ever-shifting and morphing series of demands from a litigious and vexatious group.
Nothing about that is basic, or courtesy.
If Google Glasses had survived, the one good purpose they could be put to is to access the database of pronouns (updated by the minute for our genderqueer friends) so we would never misgender anybody. If I believed in that shit that’s the only way I’d be able to keep track.
It is not a courtesy – it is a demand that you manage your language until it fits with their religious belief.
Only cultist nutters believe in gender identity – it’s not real.
When talking about humans, pronouns are sex-based and always have been.
Demanding others use fantasy pronouns is demanding they adopt or at least show obeisance to the retarded gender religion.
And demanding it of kids is extremely abusive. Children are instinctively aware of the reality of a person’s sex. It’s a built in ability, and has evolutionary survival value (strange males generally present a far greater potential threat than do females).
Words are designed to truthfully reflect and describe reality. Twisting language like this is deception, and is used by abusers in their relationships with their victims.
Forcing a child to use nouns maladjusted to their referent to which they do not belong is extremely dangerous for a child’s mind, development and safety.
Roderic is pushing child abuse, but that shouldn’t surprise us given the history of the Green Party across Europe.