For the most part, I try to tune out of much of the “world news”. I asked The Great Roman™ to tell me what is going on in Ukraine and in Israel/Gaza because I am rather disconnected … no TV, don’t read news sites, etc. I also tune out various idiocies in circulation in wokedom. The result is that when I do see something, I’m sort of like Rip Van Winkle waking up to find that reality isn’t reality any more… rather… even more than last time I looked in.
That said, I saw this.
The world is burning, and there’s this.
Remember when we started talking about “demonic gender ideology”?
Grown adult has complete breakdown over being misgendered. This is what gender ideology does to people pic.twitter.com/NtPwoWQg35
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 15, 2023
If you are wondering, my pronoun is “Father”.
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My pronouns are not to use pronouns. Respect my rights.
An attorney I read was talking about this the other day, and said that preferred pronouns would cause complete chaos in terms of communication, because reality is represented by words, and when words no longer represent reality, how can people communicate? He said when you are switching pronouns in a sentence, it becomes impossible to keep up with your referent, who are you talking about in your sentence? He said that people would just end up refusing to use pronouns and would go back to proper nouns, so “Bob came out of the restaurant, and then Bob walked over to his car, and Bob saw Bob’s car had a flat tire”, which would make communicating thoughts wordy and burdened by removing pronouns.
What is happening to people is different of course. I have a loved one who has changed very much in the last year, now very radical, now very contemptuous of anybody who counters their thoughts however mildly, which is a new and very disconcerting behavior.
haha, sorry, I used a pronoun, Bob walked over to BOB’S car! As it turns out pronouns do matter.
Regarding the headline, it seems to be a little of column A and a little of column B.
I believe I am justified in using “I” and “Me” since my identity is unitary and entirely first-person! I’m no different from a male who insists upon “she” or a female who says she’s really “they” – in the end it’s all about… ME!
At Costco the other day I saw TWO different parents pushing their 12 to 13 year old girl around in the basket of a shopping cart. One was just glued to her phone while the parents put groceries on top of her. The other was looking vaguely around like a moon calf while the parents put grocers on top of her. They weren’t obese or injured in any visible way – they just apparently can’t handle walking through Costco.
We’re beyond doomed.
My pronoun is, your royal highness.
Back in the seventies, it was a fashion (somewhat humourous) for people to address one another with the greeting ‘howya, head?’. It could be due a revival.
Eighty years ago, bombs were falling on London in the blitz. And yet, there people managed to keep calm and carry on.
Here’s a new pronoun for them – Idiots.
If SHE was in reality “they” and/or “them” we would be seeing HER at least twice at the same time.
As we only see one of HER, it must be that SHE sees (or hears) at least two of HER. This is diagnosed as schizophrenia.
We’re I HER employer I would ask HER where and to whom I should send the other half of HER paycheck.
WVC — Sounds like my autistic son. I haven’t had to do that to him in a long time (thankfully since he wouldn’t even fit) but I _completely_ understand the “I just need to do whatever it takes to get through this store and get home, please just let me get through the store” mindset.
If the kid was just lazy, then that’s pretty suspect. If the kid had something going on, I completely understand. The struggle is real for us special needs parents.
I suggest that ‘citizen’ or ‘comrade’ would solve the dilemma. First, second, or third person.
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WVC….perhaps they had autism. Autistic kids are prone to wandering away and typically have no sense of danger.
@DavidJ – I thought that when I saw the first kid in a basket. I figured must be some kind of specials needs situation (for which I have much sympathy, knowing several families with special needs children). But what were the odds of running into two different families like this at the same time?
Regardless, I don’t remember seeing anything like this in my 40+ years of shopping in public. It’s an unsettling trend, either way.
WVC, odds are good. Parents of special needs may have come together because it is nice to be with someone who truly understands.
The girl in the video is pitiful. This need to control other people’s thinking is, in my mind, pathological. That she actually believes that she has the right to demand someone bend their brain is sad. That she is so narcissistic that she cannot see that she was indeed making a scene is also sad. We are in so much trouble as a culture!
I think Fr Ripperger had a video on the stages to collapse via the demonic. I wonder where she falls?
I am tempted to try out one of the following options in a “what are your pronouns situation?:
(1) My pronouns are pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
/ Eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious. Please be sure to use them correctly.
(2) My pronoun is “his divine and royal majesty”.
(3) Guy pronouns are guy, brilliant / lovable / tangential / fortitudinous / nonsensical / perspicacious / ridiculous / impossible. Guy can’t see how you manage to get by with so few, but guy cannot manage with so few.
But I fear that most of this would be lost on any person who thinks telling me her pronouns is worthwhile. Hey Lady: you don’t get to invent a language and force others to use it.
In the transition of a new pastor, I was supplying at a parish. The new pastor came by and was Fr. Timothy D. The a/c guy came by for repair and addressed the new pastor, “My first name is Tim. Is your first name Tim also,” to which the new pastor replied, my first name is “Father.”