they/them
I always thought we should come up with some sort of gender-neutral singular pronouns. But, we already have those? But "it" has horrible connotations, doesn't it (no pun intended). I mean, Silence of the Lambs and all.
it rubs the lotion on its skinBut, for whatever reason I don't like "zie" and "hir" either. It's like trying to get everybody ( Read more... )
it rubs the lotion on its skinBut, for whatever reason I don't like "zie" and "hir" either. It's like trying to get everybody ( Read more... )
But so is the whole they/them crap if someone tries to get that to become the standard treatment for all who are stricken with the bad luck to not fit the gender mainstream, but they have a firm idea of who they are.
This should be only something kept for people with dissociative personality disorder - 'cause these have seperate selves that don't want to be thrown in a pot with the others existing inside. Compared to people who are one person, but they only have pretty contradicting sides.
This whole them/they thinking from overseas, in my opinion, is just a revelation of a strict culture which thinks there's just only one way, one path to go, and if you can't fulfill that path then there's something wrong with you, which has a name, and this "wrong with you" ain't something regarded that's part of a personality - American culture always thinks like one thing needs to stay pure and into some other you can transmit all that doesn't fit this "one path" of normality. So they assume different personality traits are actually different people, different characters, while it actually is only one person - and it's just only not the linear type (which all personlities aren't).
You know what that thinking is? Actually psychology even knows these days: This is infant thinking. Infants aren't able to integrate such differing personality traits into one self, and create a couple of fantasy roles for them (perhaps, not a must), but that's due to their still undeveloped nature. They gonna learn it when they get older. When they become more complex creatures and their character develops. That's a natural process.
If they don't, then there should be taken a look into why not, what's the matter.
Strangely enough, Europeans don't get to such stuff and this should be a warning that creations like this are more a product of socialization than an accomplishment of society.
Europeans have only been exposed to a majority of American culture only about 70 years (since WWII), before they had their own history, their own thread of development.
So the exposure to a general culture that lives from keeping its citizens on a low level of internal maturity hasn't been quite that long to erase how they dealt with and regarded things.
And that's why they don't get upon thoughts that Americans do.
This should have a close regard when something new is sold as an accomplishment to get oneself a mirror to verify how useful, realistic or false this new thing maybe is, as there's never going to be one that will talk to anyone in a realistic dimension about that thing.
When half of the world doesn't do as you do, then it might not be only because they're so much backward; it may also mean you're trying to be childish and the rest of the world doesn't do it because it sees through it and it doesn't think it's right.
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I always worry for the reactions 'cause I know what the overseas folks tick like and they easily like to be offended in issues like this - for my impression: Because they want to be offended.
At times, they don't really listen and rather like to call you some name out of their spectrum of folks who usually reject their cause. It's like a bubble they're in and seem like they totally can't imagine that somebody exists who calls them on the carpet, but who doesn't oppose the general issue. Who just critisizes them.
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