"Gender Fluidity" Is Semantical Stupidity

by JASmius



A picture really is worth a thousand words.

Which is useful, because this one is hopelessly confusing....



....and that is most definitely by design.

Or, as Daffy Duck once said, "Pronoun trouble":

How do we mindlessly gender people in our everyday conversations? asks Dr. Lee Airton, who teaches in the bachelor of education program at the University of Toronto.

This is the complicated reality that Airton, who identifies as being on the transgender spectrum, regularly navigates. And it’s why Airton decided in 2011 that it felt wrong to be called by the gendered pronouns that dominate speech and language. Instead, Airton uses the singular form of the pronoun “they.”

Except that "they" is not a singular pronoun, it is a plural one.  A fact which grade school children are taught.

Or at least they were in my day.

It’s a strange sensation, replacing he and she, hers and his, with they. It often feels unnatural in speech, thanks in part to English teachers who emphasize that the pronoun they is used only when referring to more than one person.

Which is what that word means.  Which is why it feels "unnatural" to use it any other way.  Because that is grammatically incorrect.  We'd have flunked grammar class with this semantical misfixation.

Writing sentences, like those in this story, in which there is both a singular and plural they can require linguistic acrobatics.

Or you can simply use the appropriate pronouns.  I find that technique much simpler.

But a growing movement in the queer and transgender communities is advocating for the widespread use of they and other gender-neutral pronouns, such as “ze” and “hir”.

Star Trek: The Next Generation once employed the word "hir" as the "gender-neutral" pronoun for the Hermat species (ill-disguisedly short for hermaphrodite, because they actually have both male and female characteristics, although I don't pretend to understand how that makes any biological sense.  Although I suppose it makes it easier for them when they're told to "go [BLEEP] themselves".  That was doubtless one of the notorious David Gerrold's homophilic contributions to the genre), which is where I first saw it.  I have no idea what "ze" references.

Nor do I have any intention of learning, or using, such fantasist terminology that, as far as the human "species" is concerned, has no biological reality.

For most people that requires a radical shift in thinking — and a lot of practice. “We have to be willing to fail and have humility to be kind and be respectful when we are corrected and then move on,” Airton told Mashable. “That’s a very hard skill.”

So when I correct you that there are only two genders - male and female - you're going to be kind, respectful, and humble about it, "Doctor" Airton?  Somehow I doubt that.

For Lauren Lubin, 29, the struggle to identify as they was a lifelong one. As an adolescent, Lubin’s hair was long and curly, and they wore dresses and high heels. Now, Lubin, with cropped hair and loose fitting clothing, appears androgynous and identifies as gender neutral.

Except Lauren Lubin is NOT "gender-neutral".  She is a hopelessly confused young woman.

Lubin worries about using public bathrooms designated for one gender or the other.

How about pissing out the window instead?  I'm sure you people must have a pronoun for urophiliacs.

Legal paperwork provides no option but to use the gender Lubin was assigned at birth.

"Assigned" by God, you mean.  Which is her gender, no matter how sexually confused she becomes.  Which is genetically immutable, last I checked.

When people refuse to use they as Lubin’s pronoun, they views that as a hurtful denial of identity.

Or, rather, a rational description of reality.  Which means Miss Lubin is only "hurting" herself.

Advocates also point out that “mis-pronouning” someone is a form of outing that can expose that person to harm, harassment or violence.

Mental infirmities should be no grounds for any such thing.  Wouldn't y'all agree?

But it's no "misprouncement":

God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

And remember, God does not make mistakes.

This pic ironically sums it up, doesn't it?



Clear as mud, my friends, clear as mud.