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originally posted by: ConcernedCanadian
My personal pronoun is sodomite. It's also my safeword but who can hear with the ballgag?
originally posted by: sciencelol
a reply to: xandback
We judge seven years old these days...now thats conspiracy
No we judge their idiot parents
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Themaskedbeast
You can also get into some awkward grammar construction attempting to use they as a stand-in for standard singular pronouns. Of course, xe/xer isn't a whole lot better.
originally posted by: loam
I know most of these posts are in jest, but let's not mention the hundred different mean things that could have been said to this child.
originally posted by: Ahabstar
When I was 7, I wanted to be a spy like James Bond.
originally posted by: Mantiss2021
a reply to: sciencelol
The kid was, what, 7 years old?
For crying out loud, leave the kid alone!
Kids can "identify" as anything from movie stars to unicorns to Autobots and back again. It doesn't mean they are suffering (or will suffer) from any sort if mental illness, for gosh sakes!
It's called "Being A Kid", and having an imagination.
It's also called finding one's own path, also known as "Freedom"; you know, that thing that the Right is always complaining that the Left is trying to take away.
So give the kid (and anyone else) the Freedom to identify however they want; how is it any skin off your nose?
And don't try to claim that it's for the child's own good because, "It's a tough cruel, world out there towards anyone 'different'". That only holds true when folks (like you?) Make it a tough, cruel world for folks who are different. Like the old song says, "You have to be carefully taught.." to be prejudiced.
Yeah. yeah, you object to "all this PC crap".
Well, how is it any more "PC" to use a person's preferred pronouns than it is to use someone's preferred name?
It certainly isn't any more difficult.
Is it?
originally posted by: burdman30ott6
originally posted by: loam
I know most of these posts are in jest, but let's not mention the hundred different mean things that could have been said to this child.
Shame is a wonderful motivator to lead someone to realize they're wrong. We've done too much in this world to deflect righteous shame from doing its job as the great motivator. Not that long ago, if a kid was acting like an ass, the sharp pangs of mockery and embarrassment told the kid "knock that # off and behave normally."
originally posted by: burdman30ott6
originally posted by: loam
I know most of these posts are in jest, but let's not mention the hundred different mean things that could have been said to this child.
Shame is a wonderful motivator to lead someone to realize they're wrong. We've done too much in this world to deflect righteous shame from doing its job as the great motivator. Not that long ago, if a kid was acting like an ass, the sharp pangs of mockery and embarrassment told the kid "knock that # off and behave normally."