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Yes, my identity is being threatened daily because I identify as a man...

As a tech guy, the only thing I got going for me is I'm not white!

My personal pronoun is he, or him... I don't have anything fancy like... zit, zir, zoro, or it.

Therefore according to those who would install such a policy, I'm a racist, insecure, overly-masculine azzhole :/

Well, at least they got masculine azzhole right.

For the most part, everyone here is entitled to express their opinions. Comment all you want. Doesn't mean that some of us will not also express our opinion in opposition to or point out the absurdity of these opinions. It's all part of the give and take here.

Hi victor... I know you've always called me opel and known me as a straight white man, but I've recently discovered I more accurately identify as an albino alopecian who is a fluid-gendered Cephalopod, and a holocaust surviving vietnam-veteran Goddess... you can call me your lord and savior... thank you for being mature enough to comply with my view of myself...

I feel pretty, oh so pretty,
I feel pretty and witty and ghey......

I have a white friend who self identifies as black. But that is a pigment of her imagination.

https://youtu.be/L7BQRGXFLJs


I feel Pretty is from West Side Story....Mission Accomplished...don't mock me for how I identify

I can't help it if I woke up feeling pretty this morning

Your lyrics match this one better pretty boy! ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCmG5tIX3bQ


Even though you singing the scene you posted is way gheyer.

I'm a giver.

I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man.















And so is Lola.

another thing we have in common, Frank ...

Wrong again....I also happen to be a lesbian trapped in a mans body...and I have quite a collection of Snap-On tools if you need your nuts tightened....see, I'm more of a giver than a taker...

Qmech... I look at it more as a flexibility.
Why would I bother calling someone something they don't identify as? Just because we always called people by one thing or another in the past? Am I thrilled by the idea of our language morphing? No. But is it going to negatively impact me at all? Nope. And will it possibly positively impact someone else? Appears so?...

Seems like a net win for society to just call people whatever they ask to be called.

I get the he and she, it's the weird ones that aren't even in the dictionary that baffle me.

Yeah bgz... Those ones pissed me off at first as well. I hate it when language gets molested like that... But in the end I sort of realized that languages do change... It'll change in other ways as well.

There are psychological issues for the ones that start mutilating themselves (chopping off their d*ck). It's on the same order as people that want their arm amputated because they identify as a paraplegic. I think we had a big discussion on that one before (pretty sure I got ripped on for posting that info up).

I identify as a 22 year old weight lifter, doesn’t mean I still look like one, but I did, once upon a time.........Still, I didn’t and don’t care what anyone identifies as, you be you, and I will be me. And don’t ram any leftist crud down my throat, unless you want right wing propaganda in return, and that’s only because you annoyed me. 😜

This issue is not about a language's natural or organic evolution, which in principle I find understandable. These new notions are pressed upon us today in an organized deliberate fashion. It is hard to deny ,at least with a straight face 😁, that a number of parties are ramping up the pressure promoting agendas with some good, though I believe,short-sighted intentions. At best it can be defined as a gesture of personal care. At worst it can be seen as manipulation, social experimentation, newspeak totalitarianism in action. When it comes to the worst where will it lead? I say read the literature, the opinions on all sides and come to a conclusion. So far in my research I am growing in my concern.
Let's be clear when it comes to personal interaction, I do believe it is up to the person to decide whether he or she is appropriate, out of empathy or ______. . Yet I have a hard time when others try to manipulate or push me into making that decision.

PS Words do have meanings. Words without definition are gibberish. Words represent meaning and are the building blocks of communication. Some words (meanings) are more important than others in their usage, how they shape and form culture/society etc. Words are foundational to the way we think and operate etc. The individual issues on the surface appear to be hardly worth the effort . However they can play into a larger complex motif, narrative that at times I find disconcerting.

I'm with Victor on this one, in that I'd honor an individuals wish to be called whatever they wanted.

The problem is when people get upset if I use the wrong pronoun.
I see someone in transition, I automatically would refer to them by whatever they seem to be. So a dude wearing a dress I would likely say "him".
If I got to know the person and they requested to referred to as "she", then I'd gladly do so.

But don't blame me for not knowing up front.

And yes, I've been chastised for not knowing.
But don't blame me. And don't adopt a name like Chris or Jody. Go for something more obvious to help us out.

Just call me Pat.

Man, if it was just a matching set for the non-binaries... that wouldn't be so bad, but it's not.

It's a metric sh*t ton of unnecessary different pronouns.

You mentioned language evolving over time... natural language evolution will condense to smaller and smaller forms over time for efficiency, not evolve into something that's unnecessarily complex.

^Ya, the leftist PC chit these days is on a whole 'nother level of stupid.

On the current topic, and still on the topic of stupid... even most the left leaning people I know think adding a boat load of new pronouns is stupid.

If you can't have a word in mind to identify the gender of someone just by looking at them because there's more words that anyone really cares to remember, then the addition of the new language is stupid.

If you can't introduce yourself without going through your list of pronouns, then the addition of the new language is stupid.

If you have the expectation that the person you told the pronouns to of remembering it, whether it be he, she, xe, ze, they, co, xe, hy or absolutely no pronoun... and knowing going in that you'll be mad if they f*ck it up... then the addition of the new language is stupid.

Think about it, languages have evolved for several millennia to get to where they are with their simplicity... Why would anyone want to screw that up?

He, she and they are sufficient. It doesn't need to be any more complicated than that.

And only a serious azzhole would demand that other people always refer to them without using pronouns... that's just stupid too.

Edit:

I found a list: https://goo.gl/xVZUnL

Edit #2:

Thought of a plus side to it though... it would make Scrabble more fun.

I find this guy's comments interesting on the subject.... and that was 2 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXvU8DEbyAw

Don't ask don't Tell...