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Friday, July 26, 2019

Liberals Are Nuts!

Here's an excerpt from a Peggy Noonan column I saw today; it's so ludicrous that it made me laugh.

"Offices and schools are forced to grapple with all the new gender-neutral pronouns. Here a handy guide from a website purporting to help human-resources departments in midsize businesses. It is headlined. 'Gender Neutral Pronouns—What They Are & How to Use Them.'

He/She—Zie, Sie, Ey, Ve, Tey, E
Him/Her—Zim, Sie, Em, Ver, Ter, Em
His/Her—Zir, Hir, Eir, Vis, Tem, Eir
Himself/Herself—Zieself, Hirself, Eirself, Verself, Terself, Emself  

It’s wrong, when you meet a new co-worker, to ask his pronouns. (We don’t say 'preferred' pronouns—that 'implies someone’s gender is a preference'!) You don’t want him wondering if you think he’s transgender or nonbinary. Instead, introduce yourself in a way that summons his pronouns: 'Hi, I’m Jim and my pronoun is he/him.'  Use 'they' a lot. It’s gender neutral. Suggested sentence: 'I spoke to the marketing director and they said they’d get back to me.'  

This is grammatically incorrect but so what? Correct grammar, and the intelligibility it allows, is a small price to pay for inclusion and equality.

We are being asked to memorize all this, to change hundreds of years of grammar and usage, to accommodate the needs or demands of a group that perceives itself as beleaguered."
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We "may be asked to memorize all this", but no rational person in his right mind is going to change the way he speaks just to appease a tiny delusional fraction of the population! Besides, those ridiculous made-up words sound German!

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