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1y ago

Executive order bans gender-neutral language in Arkansas government documents

fayettevilleflyer.com Just a moment...

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It costs people nothing to use someones' preferred pronouns and yet here we are.
- They do this to be cruel
  
  They're such big meanies 😖
- someone
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  STOP RIGHT THERE, CRIMINAL SCUM! YOU HAVE VIOLATED THE LAW WITH YOUR GENDER-VAGUE WORD.
- Bureaucratically maybe
- What if they think men and women should be referred to by different pronouns?
  
  I think you mean "what if the men and women think men and women should be referred to by different pronouns". Can't use "they" any more, remember.
  But everyone is free to think whatever they want, so long as they don't go around telling other people how to live their lives when it's not hurting anyone.

This is nothing but a distraction from lecterngate. Sarah Huckabee Sanders used taxpayer funds to pay for a personal trip, then had the Republican party expense a $20k podium from a company that has never sold a podium before to try to hide the embezzlement.

They really fucked up
They
FUCK

"Am I so out of touch? No, it's the people who fail to fit into my narrow, regressive worldview who are wrong."
- the people
  I dunno, man. That’s gender-vague enough to be a problem here.

So... The Party of "small government" once again banning using language that's inclusive of all people. Disgusting...

NASA changed its nomenclature to say human space flight (as opposed to just “manned” space flight) in the 90’s, you transphobic Christian nationalist.
- blame r/athiesm for stifling proper religious education /s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitionsoffascism#UmbertoEco
Particularly relevant: 5, 7, 8, 10, 12, and 14.
See also: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-remembers-victims-of-nazi-persecution-of-sexual-minorities/a-64533034
It is happening now, it has happened before, it will surely happen again.

So instead of using they like a normal person would, they have to use something like s/he throughout entire documents? How clunky and ugly that must be.

What were they thinking?
Oh shit, I just used the gender-neutral pronoun "they."
- By “they,” I believe you mean “an unknown number of men and women.”
  
  In this case yes, but "they" can also be all men, all women, or a single person of unknown gender.
  For example: somebody called. What did they say?

Conservatives are so fucking dumb

So this has nothing to do with the word they. This is TREF nonsense that by using words like pregnant person, the "patriarchy" is erasing women.
- Not only that, but she's sneaking in some Fetal Personhood stuff by saying that "pregnant mom" is acceptable.
- "Pregnant Person" specifically accounts for pregnant transMEN not Transwomen.

Reminds me of when North Carolinas own oceanic and atmospheric agency published a study on the negative effects climate change will have on their coastal towns, and what they need to do in response to that.
So their state government responded by banning the use of terms like climate change.

To conservatives, cultural war is a real issue. It's not like they care about anything else, as far as their concerned they're going to heaven one way or another. Why plan for today when you can be happy about imaginary tomorrows.
- If they don't keep people fighting about who can marry who or who should have control over medical decisions, people might start fighting about things that will threaten their wealth and power.

So what they are saying is that it's perfectly fine to address every man as "her, she" incorrectly, every time. Perfect.

Rather than ‘pregnant people’ or ‘pregnant person,’ use ‘pregnant women’ or ‘pregnant mom.'
And if she's a child? And is she a mom while still pregnant?
- And is she a mom while still pregnant?
  I would say so, yeah. "The mother of the fetus" sounds fine. "Mother's womb." It's not like men aren't the father until it's born.
  Excepting the questionable case of surrogacy, the term "pregnant mom" feels wrong to me because it's redundant.
  
  The host of the fetus would be more appropriate as they aren't a mother until birth.
- Better not say "primigravida", they'd completely lose it.

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