Executive order bans gender-neutral language in Arkansas government documents

It costs people nothing to use someones' preferred pronouns and yet here we are.

They do this to be cruel
- They're such big meanies 😖
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STOP RIGHT THERE, CRIMINAL SCUM! YOU HAVE VIOLATED THE LAW WITH YOUR GENDER-VAGUE WORD.
Bureaucratically maybe
What if they think men and women should be referred to by different pronouns?
- I think you mean "what if the men and women think men and women should be referred to by different pronouns". Can't use "they" any more, remember.
  But everyone is free to think whatever they want, so long as they don't go around telling other people how to live their lives when it's not hurting anyone.

This is nothing but a distraction from lecterngate. Sarah Huckabee Sanders used taxpayer funds to pay for a personal trip, then had the Republican party expense a $20k podium from a company that has never sold a podium before to try to hide the embezzlement.

They really fucked up

They

FUCK

"Am I so out of touch? No, it's the people who fail to fit into my narrow, regressive worldview who are wrong."

the people
I dunno, man. That’s gender-vague enough to be a problem here.

So... The Party of "small government" once again banning using language that's inclusive of all people. Disgusting...

NASA changed its nomenclature to say human space flight (as opposed to just “manned” space flight) in the 90’s, you transphobic Christian nationalist.

blame r/athiesm for stifling proper religious education /s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitionsoffascism#UmbertoEco

Particularly relevant: 5, 7, 8, 10, 12, and 14.

It is happening now, it has happened before, it will surely happen again.

So instead of using they like a normal person would, they have to use something like s/he throughout entire documents? How clunky and ugly that must be.

What were they thinking?

Oh shit, I just used the gender-neutral pronoun "they."

By “they,” I believe you mean “an unknown number of men and women.”
- In this case yes, but "they" can also be all men, all women, or a single person of unknown gender.
  For example: somebody called. What did they say?

The Old Testament literally doesn't contain gender neutral language, which is a large part of why this all is so messed up in the first place.
Hebrew didn't have a neutral gender.
There was no 'parent' just 'mother' or 'father.'
So a number of passages ended up super weird as a result, including the "he made them male and female" in Genesis 1 where a plural God makes humans male and female in 'his' image.
Which was the key line that's been used for millennia now to prejudice against gender nonconformity, including its being cited in the NT regarding marriage in works written just a few years after the emperor of Rome married two different men.
When does the Bible use gender-neutral language?
- The 10 Commandments, iirc.
- not the Bible but "in God we trust" is a gender-neutral pronoun.
  "In God men and women trust"...?

So this has nothing to do with the word they. This is TREF nonsense that by using words like pregnant person, the "patriarchy" is erasing women.

Not only that, but she's sneaking in some Fetal Personhood stuff by saying that "pregnant mom" is acceptable.
"Pregnant Person" specifically accounts for pregnant transMEN not Transwomen.

Reminds me of when North Carolinas own oceanic and atmospheric agency published a study on the negative effects climate change will have on their coastal towns, and what they need to do in response to that.

So their state government responded by banning the use of terms like climate change.

To conservatives, cultural war is a real issue. It's not like they care about anything else, as far as their concerned they're going to heaven one way or another. Why plan for today when you can be happy about imaginary tomorrows.

If they don't keep people fighting about who can marry who or who should have control over medical decisions, people might start fighting about things that will threaten their wealth and power.

So what they are saying is that it's perfectly fine to address every man as "her, she" incorrectly, every time. Perfect.

Rather than ‘pregnant people’ or ‘pregnant person,’ use ‘pregnant women’ or ‘pregnant mom.'

And if she's a child? And is she a mom while still pregnant?

And is she a mom while still pregnant?
I would say so, yeah. "The mother of the fetus" sounds fine. "Mother's womb." It's not like men aren't the father until it's born.
Excepting the questionable case of surrogacy, the term "pregnant mom" feels wrong to me because it's redundant.
- The host of the fetus would be more appropriate as they aren't a mother until birth.
Better not say "primigravida", they'd completely lose it.

Doesn't bother me.

This bullshit again. Just because it doesn't affect you directly doesn't mean it's not the right thing to do! I'll never have kids but I support maternity/paternity leave. I'm not Muslim but I want them to not be harassed in public. I don't have a vagina but think menstrual items should be universally available.
- Yeah, I never said it was right or wrong.
  Just that it didn't affect me.
- Doesn't bother me
- What opinions, exactly?
fteeze peach

Examples of the singular "they" being used to describe someone features as early as 1386 in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and also in famous literary works like Shakespeare's Hamlet in 1599.
"They" and "them" were still being used by literary authors to describe people in the 17th Century too - including by Jane Austin in her 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice.
https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-49754930
But really, what would Chaucer, Shakespeare and Jane Austen know about the English language?
- Aren't those cases referring to individuals you don't know the gender of? Like "I saw a silhouette moving, they were going somewhere"
Did you notice that you have no problem using the gender-neutral pronoun "you" in this comment?
It's almost like this isn't something you actually care about, but just see as something to justify irrational hatred of people. That's kinda weird, lady.
- I think the problem is those who have issues with the words 'he and she.'
Trans and nonbinary people have existed for as long as humanity has. Your perception of this "stupidity" as new is the result of people finally overcoming hundreds of years of religious programming; bigotry that has been passed down for generations as superstitious fear anyone presenting in an unfamiliar way, and people are now more willing to express themselves as they actually feel, rather than as they feel they must in order to protect themselves.
Here's a short piece of a lecture by a Stanford professor explaining how wrong you are. https://youtu.be/8QScpDGqwsQ
- No, priests taking up female roles aren't trans or non-binary
- Sure bro.
Why waste your time trying to define someone else’s identity. Let people be themselves; it’s none of your business anyway.
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clueless
- Not really.
  The real issue seems to be those who have problems with terms such as 'pregnant woman.'
I don’t know what your gender is a a comment or, so I’m very happy to refer to you in a gender neutral way, as should be.
As an ex journalist I’ve been using a gender neutral ‘they’ to refer to hypothetical people eg: ‘the applicant should attach their passport photo’ since the 1980s. It better than the ugly ‘his/her’.
Keep in mind that yes, some non-binary people or trans folk do go to see a therapist - and the result is they come out being happy as non-binary or trans.
Really, this isn’t the most important thing in the world. It’s just courteous to refer to people im the way that they like to be referred. Courtesy is good, yes?
- Well, that's because you don't know or don't care about the gender of the applicant, not because that applicant is non-binary
Bro this and that has literally nothing to do with each other. "They" has been used for when you don't know the person's gender since the 15th century.
- How long has he and she been used when you do know the person's gender?
- Blocking someone won't change anything, it's just hiding your head under the sand and pretending it's not real
  I will get blocked for this, but had to say that the guy will keep thinking the way he does. In fact, he will probably become more radical
Not one problem in your life is the result of a person you know (or even a person you don't know) wanting to be referred to as 'they.'
Not one.
Edit: LOL of course it was JasSmith@kbin.social - so I guess you do have some problem that someone else's pronouns have caused for you?
I've found America is pretty much the only nation where ideas like these have gotten hold.
The rest of the word recognizes it for what it is and just decides to steer clear.
- Wdym "these" ideas? America is probably the most "gender-neutral" obsessed country in the entire globe