Misgendering? Sam Smith is now they or them, not he or him?!

IvanDobskey · 19 Sep 2019 at 10:23

Cleisthenes said:
Talentless? Do tell us what they would have to do to impress you?

They've clearly done very well for themselves so I don't think they could be accussed of being talentless, just because you don't like the music?

Oh he's done ok for himself no doubt. But his music is exactly the same as all the other shrill whiney crap in the charts.

hyperseven · 19 Sep 2019 at 10:42

SixTwoSix said:
Did you just assume his settings

'his', how dare you assume such a thing :eek:

SexyGreyFox · 19 Sep 2019 at 10:44

IvanDobskey said:
Oh he's done ok for himself no doubt. But his music is exactly the same as all the other shrill whiney crap in the charts.

Aren't you the bloke who like me, listens to the shrill whiney Pink Floyd

IvanDobskey · 19 Sep 2019 at 10:47

SexyGreyFox said:
Aren't you the bloke who like me, listens to the shrill whiney Pink Floyd

Hmmm, I'm not sure you can compare Sam Smith to Plink Floyd

I do like Pink Floyd, along with a lot of other bands, past and present.

robgmun · 19 Sep 2019 at 10:47

SexyGreyFox said:
Aren't you the bloke who like me, listens to the shrill whiney Pink Floyd

Until Sam Smith makes a track as amazing as comfortably numb i'll agree with IvanDobskey on the staus of Sam's talent

IvanDobskey · 19 Sep 2019 at 10:58

robgmun said:
Until Sam Smith makes a track as amazing as comfortably numb i'll agree with IvanDobskey on the staus of Sam's talent

This definitely

What a song that is. Along with wish you were here, two of the greatest of all time.

SixTwoSix · 19 Sep 2019 at 11:09

hyperseven said:
'his', how dare you assume such a thing

How the **** did I walk into that

V F · 19 Sep 2019 at 11:49

Delvis said:
Jesus Christ....there's Sapiosexual now apparently (or has been since 2014 or something)

Attracted to clever people essentially

Thecaferacer said:
That's just a term to describe a sexual attraction, like pansexual, zoophile etc. Like naming a new medical condition. In essence it's just describing a real thing.

Delvis said:
Just daft.

There are over 7 gender listings on dental forms the last I remember.

Dyson · 19 Sep 2019 at 11:53

V F said:
There are over 7 gender listings on dental forms the last I remember.

Just did the paperwork for my youngest sons preschool, and I was shocked to see just two genders!

ttaskmaster · 19 Sep 2019 at 12:39

Blackjack Davy · 19 Sep 2019 at 14:21

Dyson said:
Just did the paperwork for my youngest sons preschool, and I was shocked to see just two genders!

You should complain in the strongest terms at this outrageous insult to non-binary gender diversity. Name and shame I say!

Django x2 · 19 Sep 2019 at 14:58

V F said:
There are over 7 gender listings on dental forms the last I remember.

Which is beyond stupid as dental records remain one of the only ways to quickly (and accurately) identify a body.

jimjamuk · 19 Sep 2019 at 15:38

Spent 15 mins on the phone to a utility company helpdesk the other day only for it to finish - thank you madam......

Thought about setting up a road block at the end of the street in protest of my misgendering, then realised it was funny and got on with the rest of my life

jimjamuk · 19 Sep 2019 at 15:38

V F said:
There are over 7 gender listings on dental forms the last I remember.

I hope you ticked them all for added confusion

Schlong&Stable · 19 Sep 2019 at 16:16

In 2019 I demand full equality with whoever is speaking about me, therefore my pronouns are I or me.

Angilion · 19 Sep 2019 at 23:26

ttaskmaster said:
You want the removal of words specifically based on traits of identity, the same as with my other examples

I want words to apply by default to a person. It's only not done that way for sex and only in pronouns. Even when people devoted to sexism want to promote it in everything, they usually have to add it in. Do you use seperate words for any reference to people, depending on their "colour, height, weight, sex, race, age or any of that silliness"? You'd have to make almost all of them up if you do.

Imagine, for example, a group of 20 doctors. 10 are male. 10 are female. Every one of them has skin colour at various different points on the spectrum of human skin colour. Every one of them is a different height. Every one of them is a different weight. Every one of them is a different age. You assign them to 8 different "races". So what words do you use instead of "Doctor"? You could go with "Doctress" for the female ones (and presumably do, since you're advocating using different words for the same thing depending on sex), but what different words do you use instead of "Doctor" for all the rest of it?

Describing a person's appearance is a different thing. The words are relevant in that context.

you don't need to put "race" in scare quotes.

I put "race" in quotes because I think it's not a real thing. You may be scared of it, but I'm not. It's an idea I disagree with, but have to refer to. How would you indicate that in text?

OK, then - Explain why you would assign a human concept of gender or sex to a non-human, non-sentient, inanimate object that has neither reproductive organs, nor any perception of its own gender?

That's easy - I wouldn't.

Mart2912 · 20 Sep 2019 at 01:13

Drizmod said:
My gender is King. Please use my preferred pronouns of 'your majesty' and 'your highness' when talking to me otherwise you are just a bigot

Fair enough. My gender is A-10 Thunderbolt II, my preferred pronoun is BRRRRRT. And if you miss pronounce it I'll find it offensive.

vanillaface · 20 Sep 2019 at 01:28

He's a male, so it would be he/him like it is for every other male.

He can "identify" (or pretend to) however he likes, but it would show a very poor quality of character to expect anyone else to play along.

If the government were to force people to play along with such anti-realistic garbage, then it would be acceptable under natural law to punish the criminals in government and the public sector who were creating such legislation or enforcing it.

The aim of communists and globalists is to wreck society as much as they can. This gender identity crap is just one of the many ways they employ to achieve this.

vanillaface · 20 Sep 2019 at 01:31

Angilion said:
I put "race" in quotes because I think it's not a real thing.

The word "race" is just another way of saying "subspecies".
Animals appear to have subspecies, while humans appear to have races.

vanillaface · 20 Sep 2019 at 01:36

Mart2912 said:
Fair enough. My gender is A-10 Thunderbolt II, my preferred pronoun is BRRRRRT. And if you miss pronounce it I'll find it offensive.

The good thing about being an A10 is that if you are offended by someone, then you can tear them up with 30mm autocannon fire, and they can't hurt you because you're a flying tank.
Unless they identify as an S400 anti-aircraft system of course.