Holding the door for everyone is just polite. And double standards irritate me. About the only thing you can reasonable discriminate based on gender is pregnancy.
Also, if someone wants to be androgynous, I don't see a problem with that.
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Re: Gender discussion
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Re: Gender discussion
As for gender-neutral pronouns, you could always try adopting 'zie.'
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Re: Gender discussion
Where is zie?
I don't know, but that's zirs!
Also "sie."
Not surprising at all, "sie" is used as both a singular and plural pronoun in German (and polite second-person, no less), so it's not at all implausible for us to use "they" as a singular pronoun. People often do, anyway.
I don't know, but that's zirs!
Also "sie."
Not surprising at all, "sie" is used as both a singular and plural pronoun in German (and polite second-person, no less), so it's not at all implausible for us to use "they" as a singular pronoun. People often do, anyway.
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Re: Gender discussion
Technically still incorrect, not that that's really stopped most people.
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"Ain't" is a piece of Canadian propaganda!
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The "a" is hard to notice at first, which calls for a double-take.
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I disagree with every fiber of my being that defaulting to "he" is appropriate.
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Of course it's inappropriate. That was just Archaic &co. being backward.
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Re: Gender discussion
Topic was not supposed to exist, but it happened anyway. Under my name with an opening post with completely different context, too. Pretty cool.
Generally if people do not get the point, then I do not try to press the issue any further. Perhaps it is because I do not feel any value in proving one self right and just let people believe what they want. There is probably some sort of idea of "learning from each other" but at some point there is really nothing being learned from each other. ¯\_( ツ)_/¯
When the world does not let certain things go, it sets forth the chain of events which cause death, hate, destruction and bigotry, when it all began with expressions of innocent feelings and free speech. Which is pretty funny because a lot of free speech is considered a terrible thing to say. Perhaps more things need to be considered terrible to say to stop the cycle, or perhaps we should shield the ears of our children so that, upon hearing these terrible things, they will not grow up to become soldiers in the war of hate.
Generally if people do not get the point, then I do not try to press the issue any further. Perhaps it is because I do not feel any value in proving one self right and just let people believe what they want. There is probably some sort of idea of "learning from each other" but at some point there is really nothing being learned from each other. ¯\_( ツ)_/¯
When the world does not let certain things go, it sets forth the chain of events which cause death, hate, destruction and bigotry, when it all began with expressions of innocent feelings and free speech. Which is pretty funny because a lot of free speech is considered a terrible thing to say. Perhaps more things need to be considered terrible to say to stop the cycle, or perhaps we should shield the ears of our children so that, upon hearing these terrible things, they will not grow up to become soldiers in the war of hate.
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Re: Gender discussion
I never understood defaulting to "he" when "they" has always worked fine in literally every case and has been what I have heard all my life.
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