This article inspired me to find out what pronouns were/are.
What are they/them, xe/xem, ze/zim, sie/hir, and other gender-neutral pronouns?
Its so confusing.
https://www.them.us/story/gender-neutral-pronouns-101-they-t...
Due to the narcissistic nature of pronouns, I have decided that I am going to take an idea out of Freud's first book and steal it.
(I/super I/It)
that's me that is.
Person 1: Where is emy?
Person 2: Oh she, is over there. Points
Person 3: hey person 1, emy doesn't refer to herself as she..
Person 2: oh I'm sorry. I had no idea about Emy and their pronouns...Hey person 1, Emy is right over there.
I find it easier if you refer to people by their names (preferred or otherwise) and just default to gender neutral terms like "they/them". Because it not a hard thing to do.
A lot of people think the same, even if they don't express that online. The only person who hates anything here is you.
But I remember widespread cancel culture over issues like this, and I can't help but feel that it helped stoke the fire of hate which other people are expressing.
Here's my personal opinion fwiw: I don't really care about pronouns either way. That being said, I find it silly that people get so worked up about them and I feel like it doesn't hurt me to just go along with people's small requests out of politeness, like I would with any number of other things.
Wearing a hat at all times and using thy/thee to refer to the second person singular is not even weird in this context, because it does not externalize pronpun usage onto others.
It's useless, but it's also just basic common courtesy and politeness.
My point is, I'd like to think we can rise to the challenge. If the rules made sense to you, do you think you would feel more comfortable engaging with them?
austin-cheney•4mo ago
Where these immediate firings occur for senior officers is typically a failure of performance in a command position that results in some other greater failure, but this is beyond rare, even in combat.
estimator7292•4mo ago