Re: PING! Michael

Dave Smith wrote:

On 2024-11-24 5:43 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:

On 2024-11-23, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

On 2024-11-23 5:41 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:

 

Yes, all that affects your life so profoundly.
 

 
 
Ah... see. It's okay for someone who is confused about their
gender to

 
They're not confused.  They know exactly what they are.  You are
confused about what gender is.

 
Lucky for them we have developed the technology to help them to
become that they know they are.
 
 

demand to be referred to with the pronouns of their choice but it
is a fucking travesty for someone to be upset about that person
expecting everyone else to change their language to suit their
delusions.  In English they/them is plural. If they want a neuter
they should pick up German or Latin.

 
English is changing, my friend.  It always has.
 
It's such a small thing to talk to people the way they prefer,
although it's perhaps unreasonable for them to get bent out of
shape if someone gets it wrong.

 
It is such a small thing for us to change our language for them but
they are entitled to freak out if someone uses the language they have
been speaking for decades?  They are welcome to suggest that they
prefer to be known as but there they don't get to pick their own
labels and freak out if someone defaults to their native language. In
English, they and them are plural.  The pronoun for something neutral
is "it".
 

 
We need to rework the Golden Rule.  One author has renamed it
the Silver Rule and suggests this as the golden rule:
 
The Silver Rule: Treat others as you’d like to be treated.
The Golden Rule: Treat others as they’d like to be treated.
 
Which rule is morally superior?
 

 
 
We don't need to rework the Golden Rule. It has been around for a
long time.  Do you really think it would be better to treat others
how they would like to be treated? What if I wanted you to strip
naked and kiss my feet when you approach me?  That's what I want, so
in order for you to be morally superior you have to do what I want.

Snicker, in this horribly off topic huge thread, a glimmer of humor!
Thanks Dave.