New mayor of NYC as of New Year's Day... I see he's gonna be just as retarded as the last one
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I used to say all the time to my old gf how ridiculous it is to list objective, possessive and subjective pronouns. Putting aside the normal transgender/genderfluid bs, the implication of listing all 3 is that someone would go by one gender when they are doing something, another when they own something, and a third if something happens to them. Is there really a case where that's not completely sexist or otherwise ridiculous?
Progressive pronouns have nothing to do with grammar. It is purely an ideological flex. They are forcing you to accept their irrational ideas as a humiliation/demoralization ritual. Their goal is to break you in order to facilitate total adoption of the leftist worldview.
The best thing you can do is abandon pronouns altogether. Refer to such people only by their proper names, in every context. This will produce awkward sentences, but they will be grammatically correct - and you won't be kneeling at the altar of radical gender ideologues.
The best thing you can do is use the correct pronouns. If someone tries to score points by "correcting" you on the internet then you ignore him. If someone does it in real life then you respond with an appropriate level of hostility and contempt as the situation allows.
I seem to recall a professor who tried that got in trouble.
I forget what the term is for this code talk. I say "shibboleth" a lot, but a shibboleth is one word, or, metaphorically one thing. Leftism has a whole vocabulary that enables them to identify each other. It has to change constantly because conservatives adopt their language slowly.
Right, it's stupid. But how would you simplify it? By just saying "Gender: male", right? Or "Male pronouns"? But that's exactly what they're trying to avoid. To them, saying "Male" doesn't actually answer the question because they think it's sexist to say that men are referred to with male pronouns, so they're left without a way to do it concisely, because the English language simply wasn't designed to handle how stupid that is. So as soon as they'd try to make up a new word to describe people who use "he/his/him", some tranny somewhere would say they identify as that but use different pronouns, and they'd be back to where they started, because being a liberal means you must never, ever, ever say a tranny is wrong. It's preferable to deny observable reality than risk making a tranny somewhere uncomfortable.
It stems from an old attempt to replace the pronouns altogether with completely new ones. At least it didn't go that far, but the convention of writing out all three forms has been kept.
The obvious troll would be to just go "he/her". After all, when I act, I feel powerful and masculine, but when I am acted upon, I feel vulnerable and feminine. Checkmate, atheists.
It sounds ridiculous but a lot of them go by the she/them because you also have to know how they feel on the enby scale at any moment before addressing them.