At your current age, does it ever seem to you that...

Speaking of "acceptable pronouns"... remember years ago when we were kids and then having our kids, and if someone called a baby "it", there was an awful squawking by the parent. "Aw, it's so cute!" "She's a GIRL, not an IT!" Now suddenly she can be an "it"... or he can be an "it" because they (ooops there's another problematic pronoun!) can choose to be an it. My head spins.
 
CallMeKate said:
Speaking of "acceptable pronouns"... remember years ago when we were kids and then having our kids, and if someone called a baby "it", there was an awful squawking by the parent. "Aw, it's so cute!" "She's a GIRL, not an IT!" Now suddenly she can be an it... or he can be an it because they (ooops there's another problematic pronoun!) can choose to be an it. My head spins.
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My gorge rises...
 

I think the "gender" controversy has pretty much done away with pronouns. My newspaper, the Washington Post, always in the forefront of liberal thinking (with which I usually agree, but not always) now uses "their" and "them" even when referring to a single person. And it goes further than that. Yesterday's paper had an article about how getting covid can be harmful to "pregnant people." Not women, all people. Anyone who happens to get pregnant.

I figure that was done in order not to offend trans-gender "men," who still have a uterus. I can't imagine any other reason. (Well, yes, I can. Maybe their editing is being done by robots who have been programmed to change any specific gender references to "person" or "people.")

I don't know whether this is just funny, or totally ridiculous.
 
Sawfish said:
...increasingly, we're living in a society in which every member is expected to mutually sopport the fantasies of every other member?
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No, it seems you're being FORCED to agree or lose parental rights or be cancelled. I mean the schools aren't letting parents know their child wants to transition, there's a move afoot to let 12 year olds get puberty blockers without a parents consent.

For most kids it's a passing phase, for some it's not, but the last choice they choose, gives them no solution other than death. The ban on mental health for such has added to the death toll, not reduced it.
 
People are very much like computers. There's hardware- the physical things-. In computers, there's circuits, chips, other electronic components. In humans, there's organs live, heart, lings, etc. In computers, there's software-the programs that run on the hardware. In humans, it's DNA. Say you're a computer printer, and your software is for printers, you're OK. But what happens if the wrong software gets installed in you. Say you're software is for a monitor. The same principal works for some people. If your *******s belong to one sex, but DNA programmed you to be another. It happens. It's not a fantasy, or just a wild ass whim, your life and your body don't mesh. It really messes people up. When that happened, it's always been hushed up and was a "secret". But history is filled with gender identification problems. Today, since we've always just ignored it, we are struggling to come to terms with that problem.
 
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fuzzybuddy said:
You have a monitor with printer software , so which is it?
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A factory return?

And how about the case where the printer simply doesn't *like* printing tasks, what with all that dry ink and yucky internal moving parts. The printer, of course, can have no *real* way of knowing what it's like to be a monitor, whether it's hard or not, but it *looks* better, so...

I'm suggesting that all we know about such printers is that they are not happy. About what, exactly, we don't know.
 
Man, I don't know...

Life has been very simple and direct for me. There's stuff out there I encounter and I deal with it and move on to the next thing. I think that this is pretty much this was all my knuckle-dragging Balkan forebears lived all the way back to caveman days.

This is not hard. As a species we're evolved both to work and to problem-solving.

Everything else seems like someone trying to make it 'way harder than it needs to be.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
People are very much like computers. There's hardware- the physical things-. In computers, there's circuits, chips, other electronic components. In humans, there's organs live, heart, lings, etc. In computers, there's software-the programs that run on the hardware. In humans, it's DNA. Say you're a computer printer, and your software is for printers, you're OK. But what happens if the wrong software gets installed in you. Say you're software is for a monitor. The same principal works for some people. If your *******s belong to one sex, but DNA programmed you to be another. It happens. It's not a fantasy, or just a wild ass whim, your life and your body don't mesh. It really messes people up. When that happened, it's always been hushed up and was a "secret". But history is filled with gender identification problems. Today, since we've always just ignored it, we are struggling to come to terms with that problem.
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Yes, intersex is a real thing, and more common than people realize. What do I care if someone wants to "identify" differently, or be called "they"? I don't understand why people are so shocked or offended by this.

When I lived overseas, an American woman commented that we Canadians were so quick to correct anyone who called us Americans. Well excuuuuuse me, Canadians are not Americans. (If I were American, do you think I'd be living here in the cold?)

Intersex people and wrongly assigned people deal with this every day. It must be painful for them. It doesn't cost me anything to show them the courtesy of calling them whatever they want.
 

At your current age, does it ever seem to you that...​


They are making the days shorter.... yes, absolutely.

Chewing carrots is now nigh on impossible, and sucking them takes forever to finish them.

Putting drops in my eyes is now so risky, I may poke my eye out....

The list is quite long...... yawn.... is that the time, I'll be going to bed in half an hour, and I only got up an hour ago. 😊
 

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