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Singular "they" goes back to the 14th century. Argue it out with history.
A battle?
I'm not getting into an argument with you about gender politics but this bothers you enough to make it a battle?There are two genders, yes?
And what of people pushing to both teach and demand that we adhere to another, unaccepted, standard?
I vote we ask the mods to change your name as it appears here to WhineyCockSucker. You clearly won’t mind if everyone else is ok with it.No I wouldn’t. A landlord should be able to call their tenants whatever they want and the tenants should be able to respond the same. They don’t have to do business together if they don’t want to. Big Gov doesn’t need to step in and police the speech because somebody might get their feelings hurt.
And you said there wasn't a required/compelled speech which there is. It does make the point I think it makes.
I'm not getting into an argument with you about gender politics but this bothers you enough to make it a battle?
You are constantly going on about how liberals should be understanding and accepting of the "deplorables", how about you show some the other way?
That doesn't sound that friendly tbh.I am friendly to the trans people I know, even though I believe it is a mental illness.
You seem pretty fragile about just being asked to use a different term when referring to someone! I mean it all seems a bit daft to me as well but I'm not the person constantly being referred to as a gender that I dont think applies to me and its absolutely no skin off my nose to use a different term.But beyond that, Gender becomes a battle when we have a standard he/she and then a movement starts to not only upend the standard, but to cause conflict and harm people who do not adhere to their new terms. And this attempt to redefine things is sudden, from first hearing about it to people getting angry over it immediately after proclaiming their new terms.
I am friendly to the trans people I know, even though I believe it is a mental illness.
It's more akin to saying that you have a black friend but you wouldn't leave them alone in your house!That is about as lame as saying you have a black friend.
"it" will suffice. Everything else is extraneous bullshit.
It works if you are trying to be deliberately rude to someone. Why do that?"it" will suffice. Everything else is extraneous bullshit.
Remember the I don’t care part? Still don’t care.
No I wouldn’t. A landlord should be able to call their tenants whatever they want and the tenants should be able to respond the same. They don’t have to do business together if they don’t want to. Big Gov doesn’t need to step in and police the speech because somebody might get their feelings hurt.
And you said there wasn't a required/compelled speech which there is. It does make the point I think it makes.
You'd like to think so, but some people seem to find the societal expectation of basic common courtesy so threatening. They just don't feel freedom unless they're bullying someone or behaving otherwise anti-social.Whatever floats a persons boat.. and as long as they forgive me if I stumble a few times.. We are set on this earth in part to be kind to eachother. Right?
I don't even understand why this matters. If someone would prefer to be called they/them, then just do it, why do you even care? If someone named William would prefer to be called Bill, they let you know and you call them Bill from then on. Just call people what they want to be called, it takes zero effort on your part. It is just a common courtesy.
Arh wont you stuff it trumpsterboy, your golden retarded calf has done everything to alienate that segment, from transgender ban in military to healthcare .. having Pence as a sidekick is just icing on the cake for you hateful homophobic mysogenic sobs. You vote for the tard you own all that shit, spare me the fake lying dishonest "Right or wrong I’d imagine that’s the rationale." idiocy. Please.It doesn’t matter and I think people should definitely strive to be polite to others. I think the pushback for a lot of people isn’t that they are going out of their way to try and be mean (some are of course), it’s just they see the whole idea of not just the pronouns but the idea of a gender spectrum in general as being absurd and they don’t really want to be part of it, and indulging in what they see to be a delusional fantasy only bolsters it. Right or wrong I’d imagine that’s the rationale.
Interesting response to a statement he didn't make.Arh wont you stuff it trumpsterboy, your golden retarded calf has done everything to alienate that segment, from transgender ban in military to healthcare .. having Pence as a sidekick is just icing on the cake for you hateful homophobic mysogenic sobs. You vote for the tard you own all that shit, spare me the fake lying dishonest "Right or wrong I’d imagine that’s the rationale." idiocy. Please.
That doesn't make the point you appear to think it makes. If I was your landlord, and I repeatedly addressed all my formal correspondence to you as "Miss Loser Bitch," for example, you'd push for a law to stop that too.
And given that just being gay in NYC was a felony within my lifetime, and the fact that tens of millions of Americans desperately want being LGBT to be a felony again, it's very clear to me as to just who are the oppressors and who are the oppressed here.
But that's the thing, isn't it? Some people see freedom as a zerosum game. The freedom of others always threatens them, for some reason.
But of course he did. Read it again. Harder.Interesting response to a statement he didn't make.
This isn't about Trump, it's about a fellow announcing his new pronoun. A concept designed to foster confrontation and confusion. One can no longer politely refer to another as mam or sir without risking insult, or being corrected. The entire point of the exercise is to announce your sexulaty to the world and demand it become the central theme when meeting someone. This isn't about acceptance and inclusiveness, it's passive aggressive confrontation, and it's stupid.