Mr. Blanquer is seemingly convinced of a sweeping American “woke” assault on France aimed at spreading racial and gender discord over French universalism. Last month he told the daily Le Monde that a backlash against what he called woke ideology was the main factor in the 2016 victory of Donald J. Trump.
In this instance, however, he was joined by Brigitte Macron, the first lady. “There are two pronouns: he and she,” she declared. “Our language is beautiful. And two pronouns are appropriate.” (...)
Lilian Delhomme, 24, a gender-nonconforming student of international affairs at the University of Paris 8 who has been using the pronoun “iel” for about a year, was appalled by Ms. Macron’s statement.
“This for me was very violent,” Mx. Delhomme said in an interview.
I’m so sick of this crowd. Everything that doesn’t affirm me is violence. If you believe you are neither gender and are so confident, why does everyone else have to affirm it?
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I’m so sick of this crowd. Everything that doesn’t affirm me is violence. If you believe you are neither gender and are so confident, why does everyone else have to affirm it?
It stems from a generation that was raised without a realistic picture of the world and was coddled by their liberal parents.