Customized pronouns
The ACLU wants to force people to use weird counter-intuitive inaccurate pronouns. Force them. That’s a civil liberty?
To be more accurate myself, the ACLU isn’t actually trying to do the forcing itself, it filed an amicus brief explaining why it’s wrong and evil not to.
There’s no such thing as “trans and non-binary students’ pronouns.” Nobody owns pronouns. We don’t each have our own pronouns. In English the convention is to call female people she or her and male people he or him. That’s it, it’s just the convention, it’s there to make communication flow. It’s meaningless to talk about “using a student’s pronouns.”
Also the cutesie goggly eyes don’t add anything. This isn’t a fucking joke. This is the ACLU helping maniacs try to force us to use Special Words just for them. Not going to happen.
“Refusing to use a student’s pronouns because of who they are is discrimination.”
But that is only true if trans people are being selected for different treatment in this matter. They aren’t; teachers are refusing to use the custom pronouns of anyone. Because the very idea of custom pronouns is lunacy.
“Refusing to use a student’s pronouns because of who they are is discrimination.”
1. Students don’t own pronouns
2. The teachers are using the correct pronouns for “who” the students “are.”
3. The students, and the ACLU, are demanding that everyone be forced to use special language for special students BECAUSE OF WHO THEY ARE NOT.
The whole “who they are” formulation irritates me. It turns a characteristic into an identity.
The ability to tell the difference between things is sort of crucial, and even the trans groupies in the ACLU would be lost without it. They seem to be able to tell the difference between trans and not-trans, they even conjured a new word for it. I discriminate between pronoun people and non-pronoun people all the time. So sue me. :P
Calling something ‘discrimination’ without specifics is hype.
Where once we chose silver patterns, we now choose pronouns.
There’s not much guidance on their specific use. Like, for example, someone slashes “she/they.” When do we switch to they? Is it in sentences with a past tense?
“She is going to the silver pattern store before her debut at the cotillion.”
“They picked out a nice pattern based on their grandmother’s fingerprints.”
If the rules are being changed, we need to know the rules.
Ahhhhhh no – we don’t deserve to know the rules, you see. Everything Team Magic Gender wants is a right, while everything we want is a whim, when it’s not a demonic denial of the rights of Team Magic Gender.
If it were that straightforward, if trans activists were picking out silver patterns for themselves alone, things would be fine. What’s happening though is that we are being told by others what silver patterns we are supposed to choose. We are being told what cutlery we must have in our silverware drawer and where, when, and for whom it must be brought out for use and display. In effect, in their view, it’s not our silverware any more at all.
I live in Virginia, where we have a very close race for governor coming up November 2nd. From the ads I see on TV, Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe is running on pro-choice abortion rights, versus Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin running on schools. They are running on more than that, but I am saying what I see on broadcast TV (over the air) in Northern Virginia (NoVa) that includes Loudoun County.
Youngkin (R) is running an attack ad video that shows McAuliffe (D) saying, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” I don’t know where or why McAuliffe said that, but regardless, the attack ad appeals to parents I know who feel fed up with the “Democrat” party pushing ideology in schools.
Pundits say the election will be decided by turnout, with Republican voters in the minority but energized, and Democratic voters in the majority but not energized. I will vote for McAuliffe to support the Democratic party to support voting rights to support the future of our country as a democracy, but I expect Youngkin to win because of parents fed up with “liberals” pushing ideology in schools.
Parents shouldn’t be telling teachers what to teach; this is usually referenced in terms of creationism, of course, but now it could as easily be pronouns. Teachers are supposed to be the experts; they are given a curriculum determined to be the things students need to know, and they are responsible for teaching it. Parents can have a say in the part where the curriculum is developed, but only a say, only an opinion. If their opinion differs with expert knowledge, they may not get their way.
I am so sick of this “parents are god” attitude. If parents want certain things taught, they need to homeschool their kids rather than pushing their ideology on teachers. “Liberal ideology” being pushed includes evolution, old age for the earth, the fact that African Americans were once enslaved and now are being denied full participation and are more frequently jailed for trivial offenses. “Liberal ideology” includes the reality of the plight of the indigenous people.
Unfortunately, now “liberal ideology” includes gender and pronouns and nonsense, and the right wing can make hay off of that because the left went bonkers. The fact that the right went bonkers a long time ago can be hidden under their “common sense” approach on gender. The right has taken up the mantles of liberty and women’s rights, neither mantle deserved and neither of which fits them, but they could go a long way with it.
Women are true victims in this game. We give up either our rights to choice and to be fully incorporated into the body politic, or we give up our private spaces and our right to be discriminating when we choose who shares our toilets. And neither group is willing to do anything to prevent violence against women or rape.