Twitter employees finding out that their pronouns are “was/were”
Shame they’re not actually pronouns; but a nice giggle anyway.
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Twitter allows you to create Lists and to see if your handle is on anybody else’s List. I appear to be on one called Anti-Science, and another called Putin’s Pals. Both created by the same person who has they/them pronouns. But it’s a start.
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Been thinking about how to respond if anyone is tripe-swamped enough to ask me for ‘my pronouns’. I tend to agree with Dmitry Orlov, who insists that nature and evolution recognise only three categories in the matter of sexual (two-parent) reproduction: male, female, and reject. (I suppose earth-worms, for example, would have to be categorised as dual-sex hermaphrodites; but hom-sap are not earth-worms.)
I say this despite having old friends who have been right through the gender-uncertainty mill - starting designated as male, eventually facing the fact that they felt themselves to be women, and then making the transition with entirely admirable courage and grace. One even married and had two children with his/her wife, before finally taking the plunge.
These old friends deserve sympathy, admiration and support, which I always send them. But still, as Dmitry points out, from a strictly ecological viewpoint, one just managed to fulfil his/her biological destiny; the other two not at all.
With all this in mind, my response to The Question would have to be: “Well, I’m male, so may pronouns are the traditional ones.” That’s the most patience I can muster with the multi-gender wokery bs. I take it to be a for-fun-and-self-aggrandisment product of bored, over-privileged, over-paid, and under-employed uni-plankton, and as such complete bollocks: A stupid, transient fad which the gathering storm of faces-getting-rubbed-in-hard-reality will expunge from history in due course; not taking too long before doing it, either, I don’t think. And once it’s all been flushed, the gender-uncertainty-afflicted will still deserve all our sympathy, tolerance and support. It’s a hard row for any unfortunate to have to hoe. (That’s the sort of - actually-realistic - indoctrination we should be feeding to the primary-school kids, I reckon)
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