Proclaim Your Pronouns
This piece addresses one the latest propositions from the woke crowd, namely the use of pronouns.
If this wasn’t something the government, twitter crowd and the mainstream media wasn’t taking seriously it wouldn’t be worth anything to comment on. But alas, that’s not the case.
I’m not woke, but I am awake.
I’m awake to some people’s idea of wanting to control me – what’s important to them as opposed to that for me.
This piece is about the idea that in order not to potentially offend another person I’m told I should know how they prefer certain pronouns over others when referring to them. Ostensibly this is important because if I happen to use the wrong pronoun, I might offend certain people. It assumes I certainly wouldn’t ever want to do that.
So before I refer to anybody in conversation, I should know the pronouns everyone I might talk about prefer I use.
In the vein of being woke I should ask everyone I know the preferred pronouns they want me to use when referring to them. But, beyond that, everyone should make it known what pronouns they prefer by publicly proclaiming the pronouns that won’t personally offend them.
I’ll bet you never thought that by using such common pronouns as “he” and “she” you were actually offending others. According to the woke ‘bible’ you are.
We are told the most common pronouns like “he” or “she” can be pretty limiting when it comes to people’s gender identities. For example, many queer, gender non-conforming, non-binary, and transgender people may not feel comfortable with these pronouns. Using the incorrect pronoun can then lead to stress and anxiety for these folks. God forbid! Advocates conclude that using the correct pronouns helps reduce depression and suicide risks.
The “Complete Guide to Pronouns for LGBTQ+ Allies” states that by assuming someone’s gender based on their name or appearance, you may be misgendering someone and causing them harm.
It doesn’t matter anymore to the woke crowd the gender you and I were born with, namely male and female. It’s all about kowtowing to the gender anyone identifies with on a given day. They say a born male may actually be a female and vice-versa. Never mind reality or immutable facts.
We’re also told a person may even be one who doesn’t identify with any gender. The word used to describe this type is “agender.” It goes further. People may be both genders at the same time.
We’re told some women identify as men, men can identify as women. ‘Woke-sters’ understand others may also identify as neither, both, or somewhere in-between. They describe the spectrum as infinite.
Get it? All this time you thought gender was simple and absolute. It may be a revelation to discover it isn’t in some people’s mental haze.
Never mind our bodies know whether we’re men or women. Born female bodies produce much more estrogen and progesterone. Born male bodies produce much more testosterone. They are produced by various glands, with the pituitary gland telling the others when to produce more or less sex hormones. It’s called the endocrine system. Both genders generate small amounts of the hormones of the opposite sex.
We do know that people can produce different levels of estrogen, progesterone and testosterone. However, without medical assistance/intervention, males produce more testosterone than females. Women produce higher levels of the female hormones and smaller amounts of testosterone.
So what’s that information have to do with pronouns? Here’s a lift from the “LGBTQ and All” website:
“It is important to note that you should NEVER refer to an individual as “he-she” or “it.” These pronouns are slurs used against transgender and gender non-conforming people.”
With all the progress over the years of women and minorities gaining work, economic and social status that we now are supposed to take a step backward on this ludicrous continuum.
One of the accepted pronouns in this setup in “they.” Now we all know that ‘they’ is an English plural word.
But some universities, for example, are encouraging students to use the word “they” until they can determine the preferred gender pronoun desired by a person.
If all this noise about pronouns feels and sounds like heaps of BS, you couldn’t be closer to the truth in my book.
There’s nothing wrong with people referring to others as ‘he’ or ‘she.’ That’s what they are.
And frankly I could care less about which pronoun anybody uses for me.
We all have bigger fish to fry than spend the time talking about using some incorrect but preferred pronoun because that’s supposedly important to them. ‘He’ and ‘she’ and ‘they’ will just have to decide to be offended while the rest of us find much better things to do.
“Proclaim Your Pronouns” is a farce – just so much noise in a world where most people hopefully learn there are two genders and to use the proper language when referring to them.
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Have a great and prosperous week.
Hug somebody.
References:
https://www.lgbtqandall.com/a-complete-guide-to-pronouns-for-lgbtq-allies/
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/types-of-gender-identity#gender-as-a-spectrum
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/21201-endocrine-system
https://www.lgbtqandall.com/a-complete-guide-to-pronouns-for-lgbtq-allies/
