Critical Pronoun Theory
And while everyone is squawking about the critical race theorist under the bed, kindergarten children are being instructed on Special Pronouns.
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And while everyone is squawking about the critical race theorist under the bed, kindergarten children are being instructed on Special Pronouns.
How the hell is this NOT sexist? I have been assured over and over that stereotypes and all the things in the “bad” form of gender have NOTHING to do with the internal sense of gender, that this sense is a strong conviction, that’s all. Nothing else. Trans people don’t necessarily conform to the stereotypes of their true gender — you can’t know what their personalities are like, it’s all individual variation!
And yet there is no possible way that children are going to be able to wrap their minds around this fine (bogus) distinction. “Feeling like a girl” means acting like a girl and liking girl things; “feeling like a boy” means acting like a boy and liking boy things. This is not just a lesson in Trans ideology. It’s a lesson in sexism.
And yet dollars to donuts proponents will see it as no different than kids learning that some kids have two mommies, or two daddies. Plain facts that upset the hidebound bigots.
So Harley uses the royal “they” when speaking? That must make for some interesting conversations.
“They would like spaghetti and meatballs.”
“OK, and what would you like?”
(Pointing to self) “They already told you. They would like spaghetti and meatballs.”
(Confused) “But I haven’t taken their order yet.”
(Increasingly agitated) “Are you not listening to them? Are you intentionally denying their existence?”
And so on.
Too bad “it” has connotations of “not a person”.
Maybe someday I will be somewhere that has nametags with preferred pronoun.
I think I will put ‘it’ for my preferred pronoun.
Jim Baerg:
State of California employees now include “preferred pronouns” in their email signatures. Thank God I am almost old enough to retire before the nonsense percolates down to local government.
I feel like many children have sufficient difficulty with word problems as is without obfuscating them with fucking pronoun instruction…
Brian M, that’s my feeling, too. I could retire now, so if it should happen to percolate into Nebraska (which might sound ridiculous, but our learning management system already offers a preferred pronouns option, and the school has one of the most woman-unfriendly-trans-and-predator-friendly bathroom policies), I can say “nice knowing you, I don’t expect to see you around, bye.”