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?
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.