It costs people nothing to use someones’ preferred pronouns and yet here we are.
They do this to be cruel
They’re such big meanies 😖
Bureaucratically maybe
What if they think men and women should be referred to by different pronouns?
I think you mean “what if the men and women think men and women should be referred to by different pronouns”. Can’t use “they” any more, remember.
But everyone is free to think whatever they want, so long as they don’t go around telling other people how to live their lives when it’s not hurting anyone.
No, you can still use they when referring to multiple people or those of unknown sex.
Might want to brush up on your English if this is news to you.
They is grammatically correct for a single person so I’m not even kind of sure what you mean here
I never said it was incorrect. The problem is forcing people to use ‘they’ when they’d rather use he or she.
This is nothing but a distraction from lecterngate. Sarah Huckabee Sanders used taxpayer funds to pay for a personal trip, then had the Republican party expense a $20k podium from a company that has never sold a podium before to try to hide the embezzlement.
They really fucked up
They
FUCK
“Am I so out of touch? No, it’s the people who fail to fit into my narrow, regressive worldview who are wrong.”
So… The Party of “small government” once again banning using language that’s inclusive of all people. Disgusting…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_fascism#Umberto_Eco
Particularly relevant: 5, 7, 8, 10, 12, and 14.
See also: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-remembers-victims-of-nazi-persecution-of-sexual-minorities/a-64533034
It is happening now, it has happened before, it will surely happen again.
So instead of using they like a normal person would, they have to use something like s/he throughout entire documents? How clunky and ugly that must be.
What were they thinking?
Oh shit, I just used the gender-neutral pronoun “they.”
By “they,” I believe you mean “an unknown number of men and women.”
In this case yes, but “they” can also be all men, all women, or a single person of unknown gender.
For example: somebody called. What did they say?
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The Old Testament literally doesn’t contain gender neutral language, which is a large part of why this all is so messed up in the first place.
Hebrew didn’t have a neutral gender.
There was no ‘parent’ just ‘mother’ or ‘father.’
So a number of passages ended up super weird as a result, including the “he made them male and female” in Genesis 1 where a plural God makes humans male and female in ‘his’ image.
Which was the key line that’s been used for millennia now to prejudice against gender nonconformity, including its being cited in the NT regarding marriage in works written just a few years after the emperor of Rome married two different men.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymological_fallacy
Edit: Expanding on this as some people seem to be confused…
The article is only about the etymology of the word:
But the question of where the word woman comes from is also of interest, since, as is so often the case with everyday words whose etymologies we take for granted, the origins of the term ‘woman’ contains several surprising details.
The etymological fallacy is thinking that the etymology relates to the contemporary definition, which is what the commenter was doing in confusing the etymology of woman or man as being somehow connected to its meaning.
In general, the commenter was mistaken, as while it is true that a number of stories in the OT were likely based on earlier concepts of neutral or multiple genders (such as the example I originally gave), from the earliest Hebrew onwards there was literally no way of representing it.
So you ended up with later reinterpretation of passages with binary gender like the Genesis 1 example as having related to a hermaphroditic original man (Philio and the later Naassenes) given it was in the image of what was supposedly a singular God but rendered male and female both. Whereas what’s more likely was this passage dated back to the days of a divine power couple of Yahweh and his wife which was later reworked into a monotheistic form without updating the creation of men and women in their images.
But the topic of binary gender representation in the language is fairly broadly discussed and is distinct from what the commenter is trying to represent as being similar in languages with neutral gender representations with some bizarre appeal to etymology.
I suspect it was even the driving concept in the 1st century behind the comments about “make the male and female into a single one” in the Gospel of Thomas saying 22, which ironically still elsewhere referred to the ‘Father’ as opposed to ‘Parent.’ (Aramaic was also a binary gendered language.)
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When does the Bible use gender-neutral language?
The 10 Commandments, iirc.
Do ya’ll think you’re being clever when you say this?
Nobody has an issue with using ‘they.’ The problem comes from those who want to force others to use ‘they’ instead of ‘he or she.’ It’s not about referring to a group of people or someone of unknown sex. It’s about a vocal minority getting really upset at statements like ‘only women can be pregnant.’
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That would be the majority, and they’re not getting upset. They’re just choosing to use the language they want to use rather than letting others force them to use it.
None of your problems in life are the result of a person you know (or even a person you don’t know) wanting to be referred to as ‘they.’
NONE.
Okay.
Isn’t this a small vocal minority forcing people to use gendered language even if they don’t want to use it?
Looks like the majority forcing a minority to use gendered language even though they don’t want to.
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So a small group of a minority would be…
I think you are expecting too much from him.
And as the Republicans haven’t won the popular vote in the last 8 elections, that would show that Republicans are the minority.
What do you mean? Did Republicans lose the popular vote in the last 8 Arkansas elections? What elections are you talking about, specifically?
Nobody is being forced to use “they”. You can still be a disrespectful asshole if you want.
Looks like this issue stems from being forced to use gender-neutral language in government documents, but I’m not an expert on the situation.
The article doesn’t say anything about anyone being forced to use gender-neutral language. The only forcing I see is the executive order from the government.
Somehow I doubt that this is really the most effective use of her time.
I think the problem is that they were forced to use gender-neutral language in the first place.
Somehow I doubt that this is really the most effective use of her time.
Yeah, but that’s the case with most politicians.
Conservatives are so fucking dumb
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So this has nothing to do with the word they. This is TREF nonsense that by using words like pregnant person, the “patriarchy” is erasing women.
Not only that, but she’s sneaking in some Fetal Personhood stuff by saying that “pregnant mom” is acceptable.
“Pregnant Person” specifically accounts for pregnant transMEN not Transwomen.
Reminds me of when North Carolinas own oceanic and atmospheric agency published a study on the negative effects climate change will have on their coastal towns, and what they need to do in response to that.
So their state government responded by banning the use of terms like climate change.
To conservatives, cultural war is a real issue. It’s not like they care about anything else, as far as their concerned they’re going to heaven one way or another. Why plan for today when you can be happy about imaginary tomorrows.
If they don’t keep people fighting about who can marry who or who should have control over medical decisions, people might start fighting about things that will threaten their wealth and power.
So what they are saying is that it’s perfectly fine to address every man as “her, she” incorrectly, every time. Perfect.
