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Pronoun Madness
“What if I put you in jail for not learning 20 new words to address me as I like?”
“And what kind of narcissistic asshole demands that everyone else learn, what, twenty pronouns? so they won’t feel disrespected? Who the fuck do you think you are? Fuck you and your stupid pronouns. No one gives a shit what you identify as.”
“If you want to be recognized as a woman, then be a woman or shut the fuck up. No one’s obligated to participate in your fantasy, in your lies. No one even cares about your sex life, your sexual preferences, much less your sexual identity.”
“You care about that, you want to be the center of attention, be acknowledged for whatever you fancy, and make people feel bad, call them ‘transphobic,’ for not going along with your circus, your stupid ideology. Manipulative, lying, gaslighting assholes.”
“The world doesn’t revolve around you no matter what anyone tells you. Just because you’re transsexual doesn’t mean you’re special, doesn’t mean you have more rights than others, you don’t get to force specific speech to others just for you.”
“Who would even imagine such a thing? To force everyone, with the force of law, to talk in a specific way? This is literally the stuff of fascists. The amount of sheer arrogance and narcissism this requires is mind-boggling.”
“And if you think such gross violation of free speech is no big deal, well, you wouldn’t think so when it happens to you. What if I put you in jail for not learning 20 new words to address me, depending on my mood that day, I’ll bet you’ll be singing a different tune.”
“And if you think pronouns are no big deal, why even bother? Don’t you face discrimination in housing, education, employment, etc.? If you’re complaining about damn pronouns, I can only conclude that you have no problems, I mean people mispronounce my name and I don’t care.”
“If pronouns are that important to you, then work them into the language like everyone else does, it’ll be up to people whether they embrace them or not. I most definitely won’t, but who knows, maybe some will, the left seems especially gullible to crazy ideas.”
“But language doesn’t work that way. We use language to simplify communication. We use the categories we do because they’re useful approximations, useful representations of reality. There’s nothing useful or practical about all those nonsensical pronouns.”
“The Eskimos have many different words for snow because snow is important to them and distinguishing it for different purposes is useful. I’ve never met a transsexual in my life, so those 20 pronouns will be the most useless words I could ever learn, completely useless.”
“And even if I ever cared to write a novel about transsexuals, I certainly would not now, seeing how complicated and numerous the requested pronouns are, I just couldn’t bother with it anymore.”
“What do I care what kind of transsexual you are? Enough to differentiate in 20 ways, with their own words? Why would you think this would be important to anyone? Even if I were a transsexual, I can’t imagine I’d ever find it useful or practical to invent 20 words for it.”
“The fact that you would butcher the language of Shakespeare in such a way tells me that you have no clue how language works, indeed have no respect for language at all, or for that matter other people. Complete narcissism.”
“And if trans women are women, why do you need a different pronoun? And if you’re not, what are you doing in women’s sports? You have no problem butchering our language, butchering women’s sports, all so you get your way. Complete narcissism.”
“There’s nothing wrong with the word ‘mother.’ If you take offense at words that no one uses to offend anyone, that’s your problem, not anyone else’s. Just because someone disagrees with your stupid ideology doesn’t make them bad or their speech offensive.”
“I could invent 20 words to distinguish exactly what kind of a straight man I might be and call them the new genders, but you couldn’t care less about them just as everyone else couldn’t care less about your stupid pronouns.”
“The liberals, the politicians, the cowards, and the fake might go along with your stupidity because they don’t want to be canceled, don’t want to be labeled ‘transphobic,’ but not me, I’ve had my share of narcissistic assholes in my life, and I can smell you miles away.”
“You can call me transphobic all you want, but that term applies to no one, no one’s actually afraid of you assholes, not unless you aren’t just assholes, but evil, murderous assholes. Are you? Is that what you’re trying to tell everyone?”
“The conservatives might find you disgusting and your ‘transition’ wrong, but I, myself, I couldn’t care less what you do with your body, it’s your narcissistic, idiotic views that I find appalling, I’ve never even said a single bad word about trans.”
“And if I’m hateful towards all trans just because I disagree with you, are you hateful towards all Asians just because you disagree with me? STFU with this nonsense; you don’t speak for all trans any more than I speak for all Asians.”
“Yes, I despise liars, narcissistic assholes, ‘activists’ with such toxic agenda that pretend to speak for their group when they speak only for their idiotic selves, I’m sure not all transsexuals are narcissistic assholes.”
a monologue about social, political, and moral philosophy cleverly disguised as a dialogue between me and my imaginary daughter Annie: first, next.