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 😖
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STOP RIGHT THERE, CRIMINAL SCUM! YOU HAVE VIOLATED THE LAW WITH YOUR GENDER-VAGUE WORD.
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.
The poster above me here is absolutely right, she shouldn’t be forced to use the wrong pronouns. It might make her uncomfortable.
She sounds like a fuckin idiot if you ask me.
Yeah, nah. I grew out of that phase in elementary school.
You can call me whatever you want, I’m not some child who lets it affect me.
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.”
the people
I dunno, man. That’s gender-vague enough to be a problem here.
So… The Party of “small government” once again banning using language that’s inclusive of all people. Disgusting…
NASA changed its nomenclature to say human space flight (as opposed to just “manned” space flight) in the 90’s, you transphobic Christian nationalist.
blame r/athiesm for stifling proper religious education /s
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?
This sounds great, so they can no longer use the Bible as reasons for enacting laws as the Bible uses gender-neutral language.
A win for religious freedom.
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.
The New Testament (which is what these types of groups typically point towards) was written originally in Koine Greek, which uses its version of “he” for “individual” regardless of the individual making it more “gender neutral”.
You must also understand you are looking at something old and wanting to only project today’s meanings on it. Take the English word “man”. It is reality a gender neutral word meaning “adult”, and “girl” is also a gender neutral word, meaning “child”.
So you can’t look at something and declare “well today it means this, so it must have always meant this” because this is false. So just because something today means X, you must look into it’s history to truely understand what it really meant. And when you do, you realize that the Bible really is gender neutral and trying to make it not is to alter the true mean of the Bible.
https://interestingliterature.com/2023/08/woman-word-origin-etymology/
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.’
The vocal minority is who’s getting upset though at others using gender neutral language.
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.
I believe you have “who is doing the forcing” backwards here.
Amd now it becomes clear that “choice” isn’t what you actually care about.
Nah. They’re allowed to use whatever language they want.
If you have a problem with that, then you’re the one doing the ‘forcing.’
Something tells me you think “pregnant person” is okay but “pregnant woman” is not. I, personally, don’t really care and think they can use whatever language they want.
Amd now it becomes clear that “choice” isn’t what you actually care about.
Is it clear that I care about choice, now? What about you?
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.
The only ones complaining are a group (not the whole) of Republicans. And as the Republicans haven’t won the popular vote in the last 8 elections, that would show that Republicans are the minority. Democrats as a population of the USA would be the majority.
So a small group of a minority would be…
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.
I think you mean
“Do men and women think men and women are being clever when men and women say men and women things?”
No Men or women have an issue with using “they”. The problem comes from men and women who want to force others to use “they” instead of “he or she.” Men and women are not about referring to a group of Men and women or men and women of unknown sex. Men and women are talking about a vocal minority of Men and women getting really upset at statements like “only women can be pregnant.”
I fixed all the gender neutral pronouns for you, now it makes much more sense.
Sorry, this man means: “This man fixed all the gender neutral men and women identifiers for the interlocutor who is either a man or a woman, now the man or woman text makes much more sense”
🥱
It’s amazing the amount of effort you’re willing to go through to show us you don’t understand what’s going on.
Gonna block you now. Tired of you people making this argument thinking it’s clever.
Sorry reality bothers you so much.
I think you mean
"Men and women are amazed at the amount of effort the man in front of this man or woman is willing to go through to show men and women that the man in front of this man or woman doesn’t understand the man or woman manning or womaning going on.
This man or woman is going to block this man. Tired of men and women like this man making this man’s argument thinking he is clever.
Sorry reality bothers this man so much."
not the Bible but “in God we trust” is a gender-neutral pronoun.
“In God men and women trust”…?
First, that’s not the Bible. Second, “we” is not “gender-neutral”, it’s just the standard 1st person plural
“we is not gender neutral”
huh. TIL. what gender is it?
Not one to refer to an individual, that’s for sure
Look, I know it’s sophistry, but so is the EO in the OP. But the fact of the matter is
- I
- you
- it
- we
- they
- me
- you
- us
- them
- this
- that
- these
- those
- such
- mine
- yours
- ours
- theirs
- who
- whom
- whomever
- whomsoever
- what
- whatever
- which
- whichever
- whose
- myself
- yourself
- self
- itself
- ourselves
- yourselves
- themselves
- each other
- one another
- all
- another
- anybody
- anyone
- anything
- both
- each
- either
- everything
- everybody
- everyone
- few
- many
- most
- neither
- nobody
- none
- no-one
- nothing
- several
are all gender-neutral. Some of them can’t logically refer to gender, true, but that doesn’t make them start being gendered either.
EDIT: ANNNND many of them do refer to an individual (I, me, you…)
Conservatives are so fucking dumb
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.
Glad we’re focusing on the real issues….
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.
So what they are saying is that it’s perfectly fine to address every man as “her, she” incorrectly, every time. Perfect.
