Teen disqualified from Pokémon tournament over pronouns

More clown world news. As if this already wasn't out of control, apparently you don't need to say anything hateful at all so as long as someone is offended by a nervous laughter and takes it the wrong way. This is straight up cult behavior.

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Makani Tran, who took time off school and spent $800 to participate in the tournament, was brought to tears when the head judge told him he was disqualified from the event due to allegedly violating their inclusion policy by making someone feel unsafe and uncomfortable.

On our way over to the stream area, the judge asked us for our preferred pronouns. I said “Um he or him or uh” and I paused trying to think of the third pronoun (the third pronoun being his). As I just stood there looking stupid trying to think of the third pronoun, I felt embarrassed because I was failing to think of a simple word. Due to the nerves and me being embarrassed, I let out a little laugh just a normal nervous laugh. My response together ended up being “Um he or him or uhhhh haha his.” That’s it.

"OK, I just wanted to check to be safe. I go by they/them so don’t be a jerk about it,” the judge apparently responded.

Tran was escorted off the game stage by the head judge, to whom he explained that his nerves had caused him to laugh. According to the teen, he was 5-0 at the tournament and was given a sixth-round matchup against well-known player Alex Schemanske.

“I remember saying ‘Wait what?’ I was so confused. I had just explained very calmly what had happened and he seemed that he was listening,” Tran wrote, adding that he was brought to tears after his request to appeal was denied.

I’ve never cried the way I cried that night. I told him that I didn’t even have service and I had no way to contact anyone and didn’t even have a key to my hotel room that I would’ve had to walk to. I’m being completely honest with everyone when I say I have never been this upset in my entire life.

The teen also clarified that he does not have a problem with using pronouns nor did he have any negative intentions.

a reply to: Cymatic

It stopped being clown world.

This is authoritarian bull#.

a reply to: DBCowboy

Oh, it is still clownworld as well

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This is why I hate the pronoun game.

It's horrific and completely a way to make other people feel bad without any remorse or regard for anything other than your own sense of power.

It isn't a thing about preferred identity.

My pronouns are f# and u.

a reply to: Cymatic

At work now I see people putting their pronouns at the end of signatures on e-mails. Good thing I am almost ready for retirement because I am all out of flucks to give.

I remember playing the original Pokémon games on my Game Boy. Each Pokémon only had those two infuriating genders of male and female. I hope they've adjusted that insanity and made the current games more inclusive with ALL the genders for Pokémon. Perhaps daily updates to add the new ones that are discovered. Gotta catch 'em all! And as long as we're on the subject, Game Boy should really be called Game Non-Binary Early Life Stage Entity.

Things that used to be funny are not just sad or frustrating.

And the Babylon Bee is a better source for what's really happening than what is called "the news."

originally posted by: Tarzan the apeman.
a reply to: Cymatic

At work now I see people putting their pronouns at the end of signatures on e-mails. Good thing I am almost ready for retirement because I am all out of flucks to give.

This is how a lot of us now decide who not to bother talking to.

When i get an email with personal pronouns in the email signature, I know there's no point in replying- this isn't a person anymore, it's just another husk.

I see the recruiters on linked in, a pretty face with a her/hers in their description... I don't want to work with those people and won't respond to their messages.

a reply to: lordcomac

It's a nightmare.

This person didn't even do anything wrong. They got blindsided by a question they never expected because they don't use "personal pronouns" and they were nervous so they laughed as people will at times - see: Comma-LA. It's not even like this person used the pronoun gamer's wrong pronouns and inadvertently "misgendered" it/them/him/her/WTF.

And this is the poster child case for the whiners who keep complaining that "it's just such a little thing to show respect" ... BS.

originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: Cymatic

It stopped being clown world.

This is authoritarian bull#.

It's the usual "our way or the highway" of liberalism,
followed normally by some sort of vengeance.

Liberals believe in tolerance, for them only,
they are intolerant to the point of vengeance
on others who don't do or say exactly what
the liberals want them to.

a reply to: Cymatic

I'm going to end up in trouble one day if anyone ever asks me about pronouns. My response will be "what does it look like?" which will be as smartassed as it could be said.

a reply to: Hypntick

Heck, I was in a linguistics class in college where the professor spent a period going over the parts of speech. Most of the class didn't know all of them - I was the only one, and some of the ones who didn't know all of them, didn't know what a pronoun even was to begin to have an idea of taking it to the level of "personal" which goes against the idea of pronouns to begin with.

Another thought:

It was in the news that companies were overlooking resumes with they/them pronouns. Welp, maybe it's stuff like this that's why. They encourage everyone to use them in emails via HR, but no one wants to pick up anyone who's pro-active because who wants to deal with someone like this little tyrant in their company? It's a nightmare.

Boys, Girls, Wankers!

All you need to know!

P

originally posted by: pheonix358
Boys, Girls, Wankers!

All you need to know!

P

I would add pansies and dumbasses to the list

I find it utterly bizarre that so many businesses feel the need to include pronouns on name badges now. If I go into the supermarket I don't refer to staff as he or she, I refer to them by their name or "your colleague".

Saying that, despite me having next to zero customer interaction; I still have to undertaken extensive safeguarding training to spot vulnerable children, county drug lines and vulnerable persons being subject to abuse from others!

originally posted by: TwistedPsycho
I find it utterly bizarre that so many businesses feel the need to include pronouns on name badges now.

It's probably connected to their ESG score.

a reply to: Tarzan the apeman.

At work now I see people putting their pronouns at the end of signatures on e-mails.

you should start putting apeman at the end of yours.

a reply to: BernnieJGato

I self identify as an attack helicopter, my pronouns are get/wrecked, and you must address me as "thwap thwap thwap thwap"