Not My Pronoun?? What?!?!

Well….. I believe I was handed a dose of food poisoning so I haven’t been much in the mood for posting. Seem to be on the upswing now and the only thing that resonates with me is this…… We have these young people so twisted up inside over all these fabricated causes. How many will be truly concerned with them in 20-30 years? Or rather will they look back at the time and energy they wasted when they were young?

 

Sorry to hear that you're feeling ill. Maybe it was the waitress you tangled with.

But seriously, it always amazes the bajeebus out of me that the older generation always forgets the way their own older generation reacted to their outrageous behaviors. Is it just mandatory that the lesson is never learned from one generation to the next?

The issue of pronoun usage is so tame compared to the things our parents lost it over. From long hair to loud music to free love to Vietnam protests, I just can't get all that excited about what pronouns someone wants to be addressed by.

It seriously isn't anything other than some of these kids making a safe space for themselves and some of you can't even afford to let them have that.

If I have any type of reaction to this at all, it is embarrassment for my generation and their silly fussing and fuming over something this transitory. I thought you were supposed to be the mature adults in the room but that clearly isn't the case.

 

I considered that possibility. I didn’t offend the young lady too badly and she was quite happy with the tip.

It’s funny you mentioned the long hair thing that consumed my generation. In fact there was a time in my young life that my self worth was determined almost entirely by the length of my hair. And I always had adults around me to disparage that thought…… So perhaps it is our responsibility as adults to remind young people of the folly of their actions?

 

Every generation has those who push the bounds of reason, and it is they to whom the elders react, not to entire generations of youngsters.

This pronoun thing is all about kids saying no one else has the right to "group" them. Not all kids are doing this . . . just those who feel the need to identify a certain way, or to not be identified in any way . . . Why? To rebel? To feel in control? I don't know what the reason is, but who really cares?

Going back to my original post in this thread, they can identify however they want . . . and everyone else can identify them however they want. If they don't like it, they can just ignore it.

Oh, and there's that "transitory" reference again . . . reminds me of another instance of democrats altering the facts to fit their views.

 

And what was wrong with long hair when all was said and done? Nothing! Hair styles changed eventually and all the fuss was of no consequence. That's my point. Let them have a space of their own without judgement.

 

The long hair hippie movement begat the radicals and militants that eventually became educators. Bill Ayers is a perfect example. There was nothing “transitory” with that movement and we are increasingly seeing the effects today. The pronoun movement is just another tool that the radical left is using for control and to limit any speech that they don’t like.
Prime example via The Washington Examiner:

Three students at a Wisconsin middle school are facing allegations of sexual harassment under Title IX after they repeatedly refused to use "they/them" pronouns when addressing a fellow student.

Attorneys for the Wisconsin Institute of Law and Liberty demanded that the Kiel Area School District stop the Title IX investigation into the three male students at Kiel Middle School.

"The complaint against these boys, and the District’s ongoing investigation, are wholly inappropriate and should be immediately dismissed," the institute wrote in a letter to administrators. "The mere use of biologically correct pronouns not only does not constitute sexual harassment under Title IX or the District’s own policy, it is also speech protected by the First Amendment.


The attorneys' letter accused the school district of stretching Title IX to police student speech and added that the students were themselves subjected to yelling and name-calling for refusing to use nonbiological pronouns, even as administrators failed to use the student's preferred pronouns.

"The use of 'they/them' pronouns, in particular, is awkward, grammatically incorrect, and, until recently, unheard of," the letter says. "Indeed, illustrating how difficult it is to refer to a single person as a 'they/them,' our clients have frequently heard the Title IX investigator, teachers, other staff, and students refer to the student in question using she/her pronouns."

In a press release, the institute's deputy counsel, Luke Berg, blasted the district's actions for setting a "terrible precedent" that would have "enormous ramifications."

"School administrators can’t force minor students to comply with their preferred mode of speaking," Berg said. "And they certainly shouldn’t be slapping eighth graders with Title IX investigations for what amounts to protected speech."

The district did not respond to a request for comment.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/w...arassment-for-using-wrong-pronouns/ar-AAXf87p

 

I'm fine with temporary changes for youth, but the changes don't necessarily enhance their odds of being welcomed by more folks than by fewer.

Changing one's hairstyle, whether longer, glued into dreadlocks, dyed green or shaved to bare skin, is temporary enough.

While I generally don't race up to strangers whose physical characteristics are so different from my own, I don't shun them either. They just need to understand that, until something other than outward appearance becomes the basis for interaction, there is inherently a greater level of comfort with the familiar than with the unfamiliar.

About more consequential changes I feel very differently.

The permanence of tattoos has me wanting to see legislation prohibiting them for kids under 18 years of age, even if parental permission would be granted. While tattoos are technically removable, the artifacts of doing so can be unsightly, and the decision to get tattoos should be delayed until one is deemed old enough to make all other adult decisions.

Going even further, changing one's sex is not only more difficult and traumatic to reverse, but far more expensive. Like getting a tattoo, this is an elective procedure, and the cost of doing so should not be thrust upon others. I'm not saying it shouldn't be done at all, but it definitely shouldn't be done on someone else's dime, shouldn't be done until adulthood, and shouldn't even be presented to children as an option to think about until they reach adulthood.

 

Mmmmmmmmm… I am creating a nice, warm, fuzzy, secure safe-space around myself, too and I insist that you call me by my preferred pronouns which are “BOSS” and “JEFE” otherwise I will bring a Title IX lawsuit against you.

If I decide that my pronouns change in the future, I’ll notify you and you can start using them at that time. But for now, BOSS and JEFE will do.

Also, if I decide to transition to one of the 58 genders (or is it more now?) from which to choose, I’ll let you know so you can address me properly.

Don’t even dare to offend me, Theodore! I’m part of that new, hip, leftist culture you’re talking about and I deserve my safe-space and not to be attacked by your born-in-the-1950s mentality.

TITLE IX! TITLE IX!

 

Here’s some more pronoun fun from from the hollyweird leftist radical Ezra Miller.

The footage, published by TMZ Monday, shows the "Fantastic Beasts" and "The Flash" star, 29, telling officers "I'm not a sir; I'm transgender nonbinary," after the officers refer to Miller as "sir" while driving the actor in a police vehicle.

"Please call me they/them/theirs," Miller adds, raising their voice. "You can use the term Mx."

"If you fail to do that again, it is an act of intentional bigotry, and it is a technical hate crime according to U.S. Federal law," Miller tells the officers.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...oun-use-during-arrest-im-not-a-sir/ar-AAXnWev

Here’s some from a congressional hearing today:

"Dr. Robinson, I noticed in your written testimony you said that you use she/her pronouns. You’re a medical doctor – what is a woman?" Bishop asked Robinson, an OBGYN and board member with Physicians for Reproductive Health.

"I think it's important that we educate people like you about why we're doing the things that we do," Robinson responded. "And so the reason that I use she and her pronouns is because I understand that there are people who become pregnant that may not identify that way. And I think it is discriminatory to speak to people or to call them in such a way as they desire not to be called."

"Are you going to answer my question? Can you answer the question, what’s a woman?" Bishop asked.

"I'm a woman, and I will ask you which pronouns do you use?" Robinson replied. "If you tell me that you use she and her pronouns … I'm going to respect you for how you want me to address you."
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-committee-witness-men-get-pregnant-have-abortions

I would encourage all to read the attached links that way you can see the videos and hear from the one individual tell congress that a pregnant man can have an abortion. While our country is rapidly declining under this incompetent administration, pronouns are the priority for the left.

 

To Censor-Nation . . . Don't you know it's politically incorrect to tell me what to say?

 

Okay . . . Everyone else has thought it, and not said it . . .

I have a problem with those idiots who, in their desperation to have their own distinctive label, clearly prefer the plural form “they” to the obviously applicable “it”.

If you don’t want to be called “it”, then quit with the whole damned pronoun thing already!

 

Media needs to stop reporting on IT and THEY will cease to be narcissistic.

 

Okay @JoeNation , thanks for your oblivious comments . . . they just opened my eyes to this issue from a completely new perspective.

Pondering past observations when traveling abroad, and other's anecdotes about traveling in foreign lands, I'm reminded of stereotypical rude, impudent tourists who, failing to recognize or refusing to accept the ways of the local majority, insist upon adaptation of the locals to their minority preference. They do nothing but turn off the locals, likely getting lip-service at best, and no true satisfaction at all.

This is not at all unlike the in-your-face, self-centered wokies who expect larger America to accede to their minority vision of how they want things to be.

They may not like being fish out of water, but the environment around them is not theirs to control . . . it is theirs to adapt to.

Suck it up snowflakes . . . the world is indeed your oyster . . . just maybe not where you are standing right at the moment.

We all have our comfort zones. Go find your own . . . don't change someone else's.

 

Don't know if you can even comprehend this one simple reality. It's quite simple. It explains exactly what y'all are missing and will never ever understand because it is not in your nature.....

IT'S NOT ABOUT YOU!!!!

 

You're finally halfway there JN . . . now turn to face the wokies and say it again.

 

I was forecasting this response by alluding to your inability to comprehend a simple reality. You only know how to bully people from a position of privilege. No wonder you love Trump so much. Bullying people is nothing more than a sign of fear. You guys reek of fear. Bullies never win. You should have learned that as children.

 

It never was. It has always been about “us”. I will still teach my kids to say yes sir and no ma-am and will correct them when the fail to do so. What happens when that simple lesson in courtesy is corrected by a pronoun person? We do still have to exist with one another and tolerance is demanded by all…….. I will share an observation of my own just this week. I have said before that my wife heads up technology services at the university. They are currently sourcing new phone support equipment. This is a major business deal in excess of a million dollars and my wife has been in evening Zoom meetings with these folks sorting the deal out…. My wife’s top technician is a transgender biological male that is becoming a woman. Her input on the deal is paramount to the success of the implementation…. Earlier this week I happened by my wife on the Zoom meeting and all the people were on the screen…. My wife’s transgender technician was on the meeting with big fuzzy pink cat ears on her head!….. Now I don’t begrudge anyone’s personal stylistic statements. However this was a business deal. A very large and very important one at that. That was improper and extremely tasteless business etiquette and the heck of it is…. My wife cannot correct her….. This is the topsy turvy world we live in right now. Had my wife exposed her breast’s on the Zoom meeting, she would be unemployed and that would have been no less tasteless…. No it isn’t about me. It is about “us”, yet etiquette standards must be applied and be appropriate to all. Not only to those of us that have old fashioned standards.

 

Excellent post!!!

 

Excellent post!!!

 

Your animosity is only exceeded by your ignorance. One day you will, hopefully, wake and realize your errors of thought. The "Leftist Pied Piper" is playing his tune and you are dancing to the music.