Yeah, I had a professor like that. It was a weird hangup of his. He taught IT classes and not English, obviously.I'm sure there are plenty of English professors that suck at English
They understand it perfectly clearly, they just want to be bigots.this
Because they think it gives them plausible deniability when sniping at trans people.It's bizarre because the same people sometimes go out of their way to not assign gender to trans people. Like, people calling LGBTQ people "they" is something I've known of for YEARS.
"My friend is in the hospital"This is an example of what would have gotten us corrected for being wrong back in my 2nd grade class. But like I said, that's not an excuse to refuse someone's pronouns.
"How are they doing"
It can get pretty clunky in writing. Trying to read a fight scene involving a genderless character can get kind of hard to follow, especially when translated by a fan. It would be nice if we had a dedicated gender neutral option already integrated into the language. I don't think any of the proposed ones are going to take off any time soon.Sweden got one.
Sweden got one.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hen_(pronoun)
This is an example of what would have gotten us corrected for being wrong back in my 2nd grade class. But like I said, that's not an excuse to refuse someone's pronouns.There is nothing in the English language that requires a determinate gender.
This is an example of what would have gotten us corrected for being wrong back in my 2nd grade class. But like I said, that's not an excuse to refuse someone's pronouns.
The other one is deadnaming and then being all like "why should I change what I call them"They also have no problem calling celebrities by their legitimately pretend stage names. Can't say Caitlyn, but no issues with Vin Diesel.
Yeah, like you ever had a problem when a straight couple get married and the lady changes her surname -_-
They also have no problem calling celebrities by their legitimately pretend stage names. Can't say Caitlyn, but no issues with Vin Diesel.And they (lol) can't even be like "I only know them as the stage name!" because they'll act like this even if they don't know a person's deadname or dead pronouns.
And they (lol) can't even be like "I only know them as the stage name!" because they'll act like this even if they don't know a person's deadname or dead pronouns.They do even when it's obvious, like with Martin Sheen and his sons, Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez.
Really weird to insist a grammar staple isn't real because you don't want to validate non-binary people.
Anyone who uses I learned it like this in elementary school as their reasoning is a fucking moron.I mean if you learned it in elementary school and went the rest of your school career never using they as a singular pronoun because you're under the impression that it would be incorrect usage you're never going to be corrected. No one is going to read something written and question why a person isn't using the singular they.
The more you force itYes. How dare people have pronouns. How dare you be asked to show basic respect for another person. I too decide I'm going to repeatedly knowingly misgender somebody purely because I get a reminder.
I find it funnier when they apparently don't understand that pronouns apply to everyone
This is an example of what would have gotten us corrected for being wrong back in my 2nd grade class.
Then you grow up and realize thats a misconception carried over from Latin (and English isnt even a Romance language, its Germanic).
Really weird to insist a grammar staple isn't real because you don't want to validate non-binary people.Ambiguous about what is probably what the teach said when I asked, but I asked in a vacuum
You give people way too much credit. You assume everyone isn't simple minded and must be a bigot. Granted, many are. But the majority of Humans are just that ignorant.They literally use they and other pronouns all the time
They literally use they and other pronouns all the timeWhen referring to the plural, or if the person they are referring to is an unknown. It's only recently that the individual they started to surface.
When referring to the plural, or if the person they are referring to is an unknown. It's only recently that the individual they started to surface.1375