224 sats \ 7 replies \ @Undisciplined 4h \ on: The real reason AOC purged her pronouns Politics_And_Law
I remember when all this stuff was starting, a relative told me about how great he thought it was that his work meetings were now starting with everyone declaring their pronouns.
I have no animus towards the pronoun people, but I am a cold economist at heart, so what struck me was how enormous the collective time drain would be if every meeting had to start with such declarations.
one of my best friends growing up later came out as transgender...
and she never 'says' her pronouns. she's just a she and its cool nobody cares
there are transgender people, and then there are the politicians. they are not the same.
best i can tell, transgender people and their identities have existed for thousands of years. it is not a recent political development, but some kind of medical condition.
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I suspect that most gender dysphoric people just want to be left alone to live their life without discrimination, and don't appreciate being used as a political football.
I do think, however, that transgenderism has become a fad and that the current rates of "non-binary" self-identification are way above historical rates. I also suspect that it's the ones who are doing this as part of a fad that are the loudest about pronouns.
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it's interesting and i don't know.
what you said though is probably right.
people like my friend 'came out' before most people had ever heard of pronouns etc and those most deeply motivated by who they are, are the most quiet about it.
+1 we need to find common ground
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I agree and if someone is presenting/living as a woman, Iām just going to use female pronouns, regardless of what I may know or suspect about the person.
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Have you had to sit through a Land Acknowledgment?
They're really shooting themselves in the foot because regular people see this for what it is: empty, performative virtue signaling, and a waste of everyone's time.
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Thankfully, no. They happen regularly at one of my previous universities, but didn't start until I had moved on. They sound excruciating.
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