Yellings
Curating the big picture
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Opinion from the Editor:
Something
is wrong.
Maybe it depends on what echo chamber you are in as to
whether you see danger or progress in an overdose of
political correctness. But when I see universities
and schools indoctrinating kids to hate Trump, hate
capitalism and hate conservatism, to even defunding the
police, I think the liberal ethic has become distorted.
Add to that the oft seen illiberal usage of violence,
intimidation and force, because somehow the ends justify
the means, and I think the pendulum has swing far too
far from a bygone era of intolerance toward differing
people to the other extreme where there is an
intolerance to people living a traditional heterosexual
monogamous lifestyle.
We have arrived at an age where any length is permitted
provided the gods of woke PC are appeased. Even if it
means so bankrupting ourselves we can no longer defend
ourselves.
And ultimately, this means logical debate is shut down.
Certain thoughts are off-limits.
"For what is a man, what has he got?
If not himself then he has naught
To say the things he truly feels
And not the words of one who kneels"
... My Way (Claude François and Jacques
Revaux)
Guys Guy Guys! It's Gender Neutral!
This is just a brief plug for sanity
... Guys IS Gender Neutral and thus "Guy" can be Gender Neutral
too!
When I was complimenting a transgender individual, someone who I rather
respected (not going to get into the transgender argument, so am
just referring to the guy's overall character), I referred to
the guy (in the
guy's presence) as a Guy! To be precise, I
turned to someone else and said "this guy did a great job!".
Now at the time, I genuinely did not know if the guy was male
(as in transvestite, cross dresser) or a completed transexual,
and he had a truly unusual name, AND it was not obvious what
gender the guy was identifying as - so I was on the spot and in
my mind, I thought that if it is OK to refer to a bunch of girls
as "you guys", then surely it is OK to say it in the singular...
Apparently not!
So any suggestions on Gender Neutral nouns, verbs, adverbs etc
would be most welcome. Ps: I am not going to refer to an
individual next to me as "they"
as has been suggested -- it's not only weird, it's illogical
(why is it not offensive?) and really confusing (people
literally looking around to see who I am talking about). I quite
like "Ze"
as a gender neutral replacement for he or she, but what about
him or her?
Whatever rights everyone deserves, may I say that one of them is
not confusing the living carp out of people and another is not
forcing everyone to re-learn their own language .... sigh!
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