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stui magpie
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Police should be free to beat up on Nazis on pure principle, just like they should be able to leave dingbats who glue themselves to roads to take their chances with the traffic. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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watt price tully
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In the Age today in the briefs (letters):
“All I did was organise a rally to pick on transgender people. How was I to know that nasty people would turn up” ?
Brilliant _________________ “I even went as far as becoming a Southern Baptist until I realised they didn’t keep ‘em under long enough” Kinky Friedman |
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watt price tully
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This was very good too:
“I see the deeming rate is going up - but only for the Liberals” _________________ “I even went as far as becoming a Southern Baptist until I realised they didn’t keep ‘em under long enough” Kinky Friedman |
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What'sinaname
Joined: 29 May 2010 Location: Living rent free
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roar
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Why can't Tom Boys grow up to be happy dykes like they used to? _________________ kill for collingwood! |
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think positive
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I gotta say, that's ridiculous, like kids don't have enough to learn or enough confusion to deal with. i was a tomboy but I never wanted to BE a boy. _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
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David
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Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: Andromeda
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I know someone who’s done this. I can respect the decision and understand where it’s coming from, but the problem is that there is no such thing as a neutral signifier; "they" is not the absence of gender, but signifies something else, an identity in its own right (i.e. being non-binary). So, for me, referring to your child as such is at least as much a choice being made for them as an assigned gender would be.
Far better to give your child the freedom for gender-neutral (or cross-gender) expression, try to raise them without gendered bias and let them choose their own path if they wish. I don’t know if I feel comfortable with any of this being imposed on them, though. _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace |
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stui magpie
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For gawds sake, just let kids be kids and chose their own path as they get older and have time to learn and grow into themselves. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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stui magpie wrote: | For gawds sake, just let kids be kids and chose their own path as they get older and have time to learn and grow into themselves. | yup! _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
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Now it’s the Qld schools debating about pronouns, and teachers saying they should be mediating between parents and students, correct! Bad enough teachers have to be teachers of so much more than just education nowadays, manners, temper control,
I really don’t get this them/they, who thought that was a good idea? Yes it’s about grammar for a start. It makes more sense. Needs a better word. _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
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David
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Some people don’t identify with either gender, and it just so happens that "they" and its derivatives is the terminology we’ve all learned to use when we don’t know someone’s gender (complete this sentence: "someone left ____ car in my parking spot”). As far as I can tell, it’s completely grammatically sound, and I’m not sure on which grounds you could argue it isn’t.
Some non-binary people do, in fact, prefer to use a different pronoun altogether, like "xe/xir", so you can still use "is" rather than "are" in the singular. But somehow I don’t think that people who have a problem with "they" are going to be more accepting of that. _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace |
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People who talk in text language will ever understand the magical, almost musical, flow of a correctly formed sentence! _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
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David
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Not to mention people who post on Nick's. _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace |
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What'sinaname
Joined: 29 May 2010 Location: Living rent free
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pietillidie wrote: |
What'sinaname, you should be well aware of this already. The entire conservative political apparatus is powered by rage generation. For all you know, you've just taken the bait and helped Bud achieve its objectives. |
If Bud's objectives were decreased sales and a stock downgrade.......then.....
GREAT SUCCESS!!!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12068311/Bud-Light-sales-plunged-region-dropping-29-heartlands.html
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Sales in the Rocky Mountains have plummeted by 29 percent
The South Atlantic, West North Central and East South Central regions all fell 25 percent
Anheuser-Busch has had its stock downgraded by HSBC which says the brewing giant is in a 'crisis' |
The Marketing VP that signed off this decision has taken a leave of absence. _________________ Fighting against the objectification of woman. |
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stui magpie
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That's actually disturbing. I don't see a problem with a trans person flogging beer, anyone can drink beer, it's nothing like having a bloke flogging a sports bra. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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