the world has gone mad

Jono8 said:
Yes, but you can appreciate why an intersex person may not consider themselves either...because they biologically are not. Whether it is a birth defect or not isn't relevant to the point i was making - every function/part of our body will have been a "defect" (ie different from the norm/their parents) at some point during the course of evolution.
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I'd broadly agree with that sure. That would account for a tiny percentage of the population however, something like 0.002% from a brief look, and so changing common everyday greetings due to this seems rather pointless.
 
Zatoichi.uK said:
however, something like 0.002% from a brief look, and so changing common everyday greetings due to this seems rather pointless.
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I agree, i don't think anyone should be getting that annoyed over someone saying "hello ladies and gents". But i also dont understand why anyone would be that annoyed if companies decided to change greetings to be more inclusive (like "hello everyone").

Its all a load of mostly pointless ******* on both sides.
 
The biggest shame here is how a major firm is destroying individuality in their provision of customer service. Something that would help differentiate. I suppose a consistent service is their priority. I don't think what was said was offensive but it is certainly off script. London Tube drivers/ station attendants are normally good at this.
 
Jono8 said:
Yes, but you can appreciate why an intersex person may not consider themselves either...because they biologically are not. Whether it is a birth defect or not isn't relevant to the point i was making - every function/part of our body will have been a "defect" (ie different from the norm/their parents) at some point during the course of evolution.
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Yes they do. They fall more one way or the other. Obviously when it comes to the Olympics they are always mostly female though :D
 
Jono8 said:
I agree, i don't think anyone should be getting that annoyed over someone saying "hello ladies and gents". But i also dont understand why anyone would be that annoyed if companies decided to change greetings to be more inclusive (like "hello everyone").

Its all a load of mostly pointless ******* on both sides.
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In that instance it's almost consequence free, even if they pander to the numpty in question.

But it doesn't always have to be consequence free. And empowering those people will probably result in more and more, potentially outlandish demands, and so it's necessary to be able to say "no" now and again..

The trouble is, any time you say "no" to these types then Twitter et al will throw a ****storm and demand boycotts and all the negative attention that brings.

It pretty much does come down to power games these days. "Social justice" is/can be a bandwagon that certain types jump on to empower themselves.
 
FoxEye said:
In that instance it's almost consequence free, even if they pander to the numpty in question.

But it doesn't always have to be consequence free. And empowering those people will probably result in more and more, potentially outlandish demands, and so it's necessary to be able to say "no" now and again..

The trouble is, any time you say "no" to these types then Twitter et al will throw a ****storm and demand boycotts and all the negative attention that brings.

It pretty much does come down to power games these days. "Social justice" is/can be a bandwagon that certain types jump on to empower themselves.
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Yes, but 99% of all this **** is some loud mouth nobody on twitter rustling the jimmies of all the loud mouth nobody "worlds gone mad, not back in my day" type people.

It's all a bit tedious.
 
Zatoichi.uK said:
The only non binary in the village.
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Young man, there's no need to feel down
I said, young man, pick yourself off the ground
I said, young man, 'cause you're in a new town
There's no need to be unhappy

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Bassmansam said:
I have opened that link and i’m not sure what the fuss is about. Is “they” offensive to them ?
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The original tweet was deleted. They called the Mayor a "him" and then deleted it, and issued an apology blaming Grammarly (the grammar fixing app). Grammarly then responded and said, err no - we use 'they'.
 
"Good morning LGBTQG customers. The train now standing on platform 1 is the 10:35 to 'bonkersville'"
 
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