My first encounter with a Pronoun Warrior

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  1. Lindis

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    Those over-egoistic "non-binary" people should be content to be referred to as "it" like things - and live with it.
    That would only be fair.
     
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    I agree! :)
     
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    Narcissists cannot keep their self-interest in check. They cannot be friends for that reason. They tend to gather in cults of like minded people --- if you can even confer the ability to think on them. You find them in the extremes of society as you did, and as front runners in fields like science. While rare, they occasionally glom onto a cult with a correct perspective in some discipline. Otherwise, they are simply learning disabled, incapable of admitting that they are wrong even when it's obvious. Examples are too numerous to enumerate here.
     
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    We live in an age when friendships depend more and more on "correct" opinions.
     
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    I think that is a key point. I'm of the opinion that these non gendered fake terms arose in the English speaking countries because English does not have gendered definitive articles. We have "The" but Germans have Der, Die, Das, and Dem. And of course every other European language has gendered definitive articles. Only English speakers would come up with such non gendered idiocy.
     
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    Meanwhile I tip my hat to the woke left and urge them to keep going!
     
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    There is already a de-gendered pronoun: it.
     
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    yes yes yes. I do love me some progressive leftists. I want them all to keep pushing their views loud and proud,
    Keep pushing their agenda and be over the top in expressing it.

    PS: I’d drop the woke lefties in the OP from my dinner list.
     
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    But you likely voted for the biggest lunatic ever the one currently in the white house
     
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    To start with, the use of the word "they" in the singular is a common usage in English. There have been plenty of linguists who have noted this. While it has previously been to denote a single subject where the gendered pronoun was not known, it is not a stretch to use it on a singular person who holds to neither gender.

    However, I have two issues with the other people's response. I would have taken the confusion of the singular they vs the plural they in stride, but then asked what does the ex being non-binary have to do with whether or not they are back together again? Either they are or they are not. Even considering it is in the status of "not back together", yet at least. Then there is the issue of the name. People have names. Even when a transgender person changes their name to one more in line with their gender (as opposed to sex), they still have a name, and it is not impolite to refer to them by name. Pronoun use has nothing to do with one's name.
     
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    Was there some need to bump the thread after only being up for 15 minutes?
     
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    Well how do you know that they aren't MPD or DID or whatever the current label is know. I actually know someone who is, and usually refer to them as "they" unless I am talking about a specific personality.
     
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    OK, that got a gen-u-ine LMAO!!
     
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    I think you overestimate that. In my areas, even most of the non-binaries would have balked at the "no name, just 'they' " thing.
     
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    The Democratic Party is destroying the Democratic Party. The Republicans are doing the same. But yeah, there is such a thing as too left or too right. I'm of the camp that non-binary is legit, but there are indeed those who take it too far. The OP's situation is a good example. It just should not be taken as being the whole of the group.
     
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    My general approach is that your problem is not my problem; if you are confused and want the world to adjust language to accommodate your problem- be prepared for disappointment.
     
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    Just not likely to encounter one... this culture (Mexican) is very conservative and traditional.

    Now up the road, in the artist colony, they are a pretentious bunch, more than likely find a pronoun totalitarian there; fprtunately that is 60 miles and over the mountains away, AND they never come here, AND in general they are afraid of Mexicans, AND there is that intersectional that Mexicans (who they think are all brown people) get the special kid glove treatment by those bigoted paternalist
     
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    Some folks, actually sheeple, are quick to adapt any trend. A sign they don't know who they are and are seeking relevance. I say this pronoun crap is a trend that will wear itself out like wearing a baseball cap backwards on your head or wearing jeans with several slits across the legs. When you hear buzz word or see the forementioned trends and laugh out loud the morons get mad. Another sign of their lack of self-confidence.
     
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    I haven't encountered this issue in my personal life, but dealing with 100s of employees, you can't possibly keep track of gender, gender preference or name preference. I actually use 'you them they' a great deal. Names can be deceiving also, seen you have both male and female versions of Johnnie/y Billie/y etc.

    I have a mixed group of friends, politically, religiously and sexual orientation. Fortunately, no one seems to care what the other person's lean is, and we all get along.
     
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    It's so ****ing painfully obvious that in an attempt to have their own identities and attention...the kids that used to wear all black, not shower and paint everything with black nail polish are now riding the "i've got my own special pronouns that you need to abide by" forcing us all to dance through these ridiculous hoops that they set.

    And this is because of dipshit left leaning agendas to normalize and socialize this mental disorder like it's ****ing normal that someone rejects the gender they were born into or wants to rename it because "it's cool, bro"
     
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    Ironically, some non-binaries use that as their preferred pronoun.
     
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    You do realize that there are people from all over south of the US, Mexico included, that want to use Latinx instead of Latino and Latina, yes?
     
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    The GOP couldn't have taken back Virginia without 'em!
     
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    True point. But probably not dealing with them in any professional or family situation. People with true MPD are ridiculously rare. Narcissistic leftists who want to tell everyone how to think speak and act are not;)
     
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    Seems to me it is just as sheeple to not adjust to new facts as well. Look at the resistance to the change from a geocentric model to a heliocentric model. Also, the backwards cap and silted jeans have not worn themselves out. They are still popular looks. So that was a bad example.

    A sheeple is one who blindly follows without consideration. Even if they get something wrong, in making due consideration and deciding for themselves, it's not being a sheeple. Religion is a great example for the difference. People who just follow what their church leaders say are sheeple. People who do their research, study and pray for guidance are not, even if they reach the same point that the sheeple just blindly went to.
     

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