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[–]MarkJeffersonTight defenses and we draw the line 35 insightful - 5 fun35 insightful - 4 fun36 insightful - 5 fun -  (10 children)

This is a perfect example why this neo-pronoun fad is moronic. Language should be becoming more precise and descriptive, not more obfuscating. And everyone who uses these pronouns knows it's happening but due to being under a mass peer pressure spell is still pretending to one another that the Emperor is not buck naked.

[–]8bitgay 23 insightful - 1 fun23 insightful - 0 fun24 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

It is also an example of bad writing. Even if you agree with neopronouns, at this point you should just use their names. Yeah, we avoid using names all the time so it doesn't become repetitive, but you already made it repetitive by using 8 "they" in one sentence anyway.

[–][deleted] 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

There's a lot of genderspecial people who also either insist on never using capital letters at all, or who insist on capitalizing the first letter of every single word in a sentence.

Eschewing the established rules of a language that exist in large part for legibility to make yourself feel special is incredibly irritating.

[–]just_lesbian_things 18 insightful - 2 fun18 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

They're almost always Anglophones too. I spent a lot of time and money learning English. So funny that when I make a grammar error or mispronounce something, I'm "wrong" while when these guys do it, they are evolving English or whatever. I have friends who have had to change their careers simply because their English isn't good enough. Why aren't these genderspecials cancelling TOEFL exams?

[–]8bitgay 14 insightful - 2 fun14 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

This is a point I constantly think about. Homosexual is a word that has a local translation in many languages, if not all. There's always a term for people who like the same sex. But not queer - we are all using the English word for that. If the identity of queer is so genuine, you'd imagine people in other countries would have come up with a name for it before the American word got popular recently. Honestly I only know that queer is used as a slur because of what gay Americans say, never in my life anyone ever used queer as a slur - because it's a niche word that people only started using it a couple years ago.

Maybe we should outwoke them and starting claiming that queer is an expression of American imperialism.

[–][deleted] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's so, so tiring having to deal with their constant narcissism that seems to infect and warp every single interaction.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Omg that is a really spot on point about TOEFL. I never thought of that angle!