{"id":4182,"date":"2013-12-10T08:54:15","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T15:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=4182"},"modified":"2013-12-10T08:54:15","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T15:54:15","slug":"genders-genders-everywhere-or-any-lgbtq-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/12\/10\/genders-genders-everywhere-or-any-lgbtq-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Genders, Genders, Everywhere, Or Any LGBTQ To Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;An increasingly popular trend has been choose your own gender.\u00a0 Not limited to the simple male\/female binary, new &#8220;gender-neutral&#8221; pronouns are being <a href=\"King? Queen? What\u2019s a Gender-Neutral Monarch to Call Zir Self?\" target=\"_blank\">pushed<\/a> on younger and younger people, who are now given the <a title=\"Public School: There are \u201c8 Categories For Sex\/Gender\u201d\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/11\/25\/public-school-there-are-8-categories-for-sexgender\/\" target=\"_blank\">choice<\/a> of up to <em>seven or eight<\/em> choices for their &#8220;gender.&#8221;\u00a0 Unsurprisingly, this is being pushed primarily at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2013\/11\/30\/No-More-He-and-She-Now-It-s-They-Ze-Sie-E-Ou-and-Ve\" target=\"_blank\">vanguard<\/a> of the Progressive destruction of Western Civilization:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The terms genderqueer, agender, bigender, third gender or gender-fluid, called &#8216;preferred gender pronouns&#8217; (PGPs), are now bandied about as substitutes for the old stodgy &#8216;he&#8217; and &#8216;she.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;At the University of Vermont, students can now be addressed as she, he, and ze; intake forms at the University of California, Berkeley&#8217;s student health center allow the students to mark themselves as male, female, or other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Bellevue College has gone a <a href=\"http:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/874\/2402529\/Local-colleges-offer-7-gender-choices-on-application\" target=\"_blank\">step further<\/a> and allowed for <em>seven<\/em> choices for &#8220;gender identity&#8221; in addition to <em>seven<\/em> choices for sexual orientation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><div id=\"attachment_4183\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/874\/2402529\/Local-colleges-offer-7-gender-choices-on-application\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4183\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4183\" title=\"Seven Genders\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/seven_genders.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/seven_genders.jpg 300w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/seven_genders-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4183\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture of application to Bellevue College<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The problem with this is that the vast majority of people are either males who are men who like women, or females who are women who like men.\u00a0 This is reality.\u00a0 As blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookwormroom.com\/2013\/12\/03\/why-a-healthy-society-should-resist-the-new-generation-of-gender-neutral-pronouns\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bookworm<\/a> notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Denying reality, however, is precisely what this bizarre gender-neutral language is trying to do.\u00a0 As a percentage of the whole population, there are very few boys who will be girls and girls who will be boys.\u00a0 The rest of us are pretty clearly round pegs in round holes and square pegs in square holes, and our English language accurately reflects this actual, rather than politically-correct, reality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A &#8220;writer-in-residence&#8221; at Trinity College has gone so far as to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2013\/11\/30\/No-More-He-and-She-Now-It-s-They-Ze-Sie-E-Ou-and-Ve\" target=\"_blank\">declare<\/a>, contra to the simple truth Bookworm noted above, that this a natural <em>progression<\/em> of the language:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;&#8216;The people I know who teach will say &#8220;This is weird and it&#8217;s cumbersome and it&#8217;s not going to last because it&#8217;s not organic.&#8221;&#8216; However, she added, &#8216;Mail carrier did not evolve organically and it&#8217;s a lot easier to say mailman. Decades ago there were poets who refused to be called poetesses. Most language has evolved organically, but there have been times\u2014and when it comes to issues of gender there probably have to be times\u2014when there are people willing to push the envelope.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;No, this is not the natural evolution of a language.\u00a0 It is an invention and imposition of an elitist few.\u00a0 It is not evolutionary, it is <em>Intelligent Design<\/em> by the unintelligent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And denying reality can be dangerous, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2004\/jul\/30\/health.mentalhealth\" target=\"_blank\">depression<\/a> and <a title=\"Euthanasia Comes To A Social Construct\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/10\/05\/euthanasia-comes-to-a-social-construct-3\/\" target=\"_blank\">suicide<\/a> often being the result of people trying to change their body to fit their belief of who they are &#8220;on the inside.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The reality is that men and women are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2013\/12\/03\/how-men-brains-are-wired-differently-than-women\/\" target=\"_blank\">fundamentally different<\/a>.\u00a0 Beyond the presence or lack of &#8220;dangly bits,&#8221; the differences are real and profound.\u00a0 But this conflicts with the rabid Left&#8217;s idea that all people are interchangeable pegs, and that the difference between men and women are just a meaningless physical difference similar the difference between someone who is short or who it tall, or who have different colored skin.\u00a0 They deny reality, and do whatever they can to support their delusions.\u00a0 With this comes the threat to those who do not agree with this fantasy of being labeled a &#8220;H8er&#8221; and being subjected to <a title=\"ENDA: Paragon of Intolerance\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/11\/18\/enda-paragon-of-intolerance\/\" target=\"_blank\">punishment<\/a> for daring to refer to people by their natural born biological sex.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;While advocates of these &#8220;gender-fluid&#8221; pronouns declare that it allows them to say &#8220;Yes, what I am feeling is legitimate,&#8221; it effectively takes that away from those who recognize reality and say &#8220;Yes, what I am feeling is legitimate&#8221; when they see men and men and women as women.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;An increasingly popular trend has been choose your own gender.\u00a0 Not limited to the simple male\/female binary, new &#8220;gender-neutral&#8221; pronouns are being pushed on younger and younger people, who are now given the choice of up to seven or eight &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/12\/10\/genders-genders-everywhere-or-any-lgbtq-to-be\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17],"tags":[25,46,24,48],"class_list":["post-4182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-progressives","tag-higher-ed","tag-kyriarchy","tag-leviathan","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4182"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4366,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4182\/revisions\/4366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}