And now for something completely different

[joiedecombat]

I can't bring myself to accept pseudo-words like "hir" and "xie" as acceptable pronouns for use in reference to the differently gendered... and I don't care if that makes me a bad person.

Random thought for the day.

Comments

[annwyd.livejournal.com]

That's because those words are dumb.

Do I get to be a bad person now too?

[joiedecombat.livejournal.com]

Yes! We'll both be bad people together. And have Halloween candy. Even though it's still the middle of October.

[annwyd.livejournal.com]

Yay! Candy!

[ahumblepen.livejournal.com]

I want candy. :(

[joiedecombat.livejournal.com]

You may also have candy.

[damnedmage.livejournal.com]

You say this like she knows how

I totally agree. Those words are lame.

[infinitepryde.livejournal.com]

Yay Halloween candy!

(I've been nibbling candy corn for two weeks. *hee hee*)

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

Bad person here, who also thinks made up words for the people with genderissues are dumb.

The closest I get is "himer" or "s/he". And that's pushing it, out of politeness.

[scattersane.livejournal.com]

I hate those damned things too. I like what Amber did. She spots a transgender at this one event of a certain nature, she walks up to them and says "Pardon me, this is going to sound like a really stupid question, but do you prefer to be referred to as he or she?"

They smiled quite pleasantly and said "She."

That's it. Don't muck about with an already-abused language, open up a damned dialogue.

You know, I've seen a lot of odd sexual identifications, and a lot of them have belonged to people who were pretty damned crazy, but none of them, but none, have I ever seen refer to themselves with a Bullshit Pronoun.