Do we really need this to satisfy such a small percentage of people?
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Weapons? 🤣 Talk about your own little world 🤣 Get over it, its all fine. And nothing at all to do with you either.
While we’re at it lets forget about satisfying or even normalising other fringe groups of people too, shall we? I thought we were going forwards in this world, not backwards.
Considering you can change your pronouns on a whim I would imagine it asking the user inputting it every time.
But how it's shared is another question, if someone in a meeting is unknowing of a new identity (a bigot!) then they'll 'deadname' someone.
Not only do you have to change the meaning of pronouns but you also have to make up new words for the fantasy world you create.
The only people triggered are those trying to define and force the language of others.
Your sarcastic post was just ironic to me in that scientists would be bewildered by a freak earthquake, but not by people trying to redefine what is biologically (you know, scientifically) set.
As a self identifying unicorn, I’d say yes.
Relax. You're not being forced to do anything. Live and let live. Doesn't bother me in the slightest.
I think most people draw the line when how someone chooses to live their lives crosses a line and affects how others live their lives. Just being left alone to live their lives doesn't seem to be enough.
You seem awful upset for someone who has assumed people’s pronouns at least three times in forums in the last week alone.
Good, if a little weird, effort on stalking to prove some kind of point. However, in English (British) both ‘guy’ and ‘man’ when used in this context are used as a general term for a person, or indeed a simple exclamation. ‘Oh man!’ Has nothing to do with a man or a person. ‘Hey guy’ Has nothing to do with the gender of anyone.
Nice try, but no beans chief. Or now are you going to assume a chief must be a man so I’ve ‘done it again’?
Sorry, but you can't just brush this away and act as if there aren't social, economical and perhaps eventually criminal consequences for nonconformance.
Look up Nicholas Meriwether.
Our northern neighbors (I'm in the US) paved the way for charging someone with a hate crime for not recognizing/using "preferred language" with bill C-16. I won't be naïve and think that can't happen in the US.
Most are TRYING to live and let live. It is others that are bullying and abusing language for power.
I am fascinated by language and how it evolves and changes and adapts. Or how one culture can have one word that means something, but another might have ten, each describing nuances that the first culture doesn't have or cannot define or experience. And how some words carry invisible meaning and intonation. Language is a living, breathing thing. And yet, it's all just made up. Crazy.
So you’re saying in your culture it’s okay to say guy or man and no one should think twice of it. But if in my culture we believe in science and God where man is simply he or him and a woman is she or her we are wrong? Got it. Thanks for clarifying.
Nothing. Anyone can be a chief. It’s someone in charge. I mentioned this right next to the bit you quoted, or did you stop reading at that point to try to catch me out?
"...used in this context..." Good to know that you get to define when and who gets the benefit of reason. Language has been formulated so we can all communicate rationally and understandably. Everyone understands that you mean no malice in the use of these words. This is precisely the point!
My loyalty? That’s weird. I’m not loyal to it? I just speak it, and I’m British, sooooo…
Don’t even know what you’re talking about
Nope. Wrong again. Language is ever changing. It’s just when one perceives a threat one pulls out all the stops to be VERY offended, using any means possible to ‘prove it’s bad’.
EDIT* and you seem to be implying that someone (who isn’t here or mentioned anywhere) has got offended because you called them the wrong pronoun. Are you imagining this invisible enemy again?
have you considered not crying about it?
sounds like you’re trying really hard to be a victim here but ok
So many triggered people on this forum! If you don't like using pronouns, guess what? Zoom allows you to "never share" them. Problem solved.
If you are that bothered by what genitals are in someone's pants, and if they match what pronouns they use, you need therapy.
If you are that bothered by what genitals are in someone's pants, and if they match what pronouns they use, you need therapy.
Neither does anyone else when you force people to say, "zie, zim, sie, ve, ver, tey, ter" or whatever alphabet salad comes up tomorrow.
imagine being this triggered over pronouns
what fictional liberal dystopia do you think you’re forced to live in?