What began with men wishing to be referred to as “she/her” has now devolved into a festival of madness where people express their “demon” pronouns, “ghost” pronouns, or “dirt” pronouns.
Neopronouns have become all the range among the non-binary set, who wish to express not only that they identify as neither male nor female, but that they identify as something separate, special, and apart from that which the rest of the normies can truly understand.
Now, Dictionary.com, which recently declared "woman" the word of the year simply due to the confusion caused by the term now being inclusive of men who identify as women, has added the neo-pronouns sie, ve, xe, ze, and zie to the list that already included he, she, and they.
https://rumble.com/embed/vlaopn/?pub=2n05b
The word woman is defined as anyone who "identifies as female," though it's unclear what "identifying" as a biological sex that one is not actually means.
So special are those in this subset of the LGBTQIA+ group that they have come up with pronouns for themselves that are as unique as DNA, intended for use by those who are referring to these people in the third person. And Dictionary.com has embraced them.
Peter Boghossian posted screenshots of the words, and the definition for "ze," which reads "the person being discussed or last mentioned (used as a neopronoun in place of the gendered pronouns he and she). It gives the example "My friend didn't want to go to the party, but ze got up and danced when hir favorite song came on!"
It is unclear how a listener would understand that hir was differentiated from her.
https://twitter.com/peterboghossian/status/1604379718492377088?s=20&t=rsYUzlTl1p87SzLjzadRmQ
Colleges and universities go out of their way to embrace this pronoun subset, giving instructions on what to do if you accidentally offend someone who you referred to in the third person, meaning it's likely that this misreferred to person is not even present. One should "Admit the mistake and correct yourself as soon as you can," says Penn State.
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1570432071885258753?s=20&t=FZ8YlH2wG_-OBRWxD5Jtlg
Wild Woman Writing Club responded that neopronouns are simply another denial of reality in a digital world.
"In the digital age, there is no one 'the dictionary', just countless reality-denialism activists working to ‘queer’ the definition of woman & obscure sex via idiotic ‘neo pronouns’ in their tech ‘engagement’ jobs," she wrote.
https://twitter.com/wwwritingclub/status/1604387283989323776?s=20&t=rsYUzlTl1p87SzLjzadRmQ
Preferred pronouns are decidedly for the self-obsessed, who use them to demand that others refer to them in a specific way even when they are not present. What began with men wishing to be referred to as "she/her" has now devolved into a festival of madness where people express their "demon" pronouns, "ghost" pronouns, or "dirt" pronouns. It is another step in turning one's self into an avatar.
Proponents of preferred neopronouns issue endless videos explaining to viewers how to use these pronouns. One TikToker teaches how to use a nearly infinite variety of pronouns, like "shark/sharks," "flower/flowers," "that/thats," and so many, many more.
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1569452804548481025?s=20&t=r9-LF6d2mXoX8oYJWEVGLA
Woke teachers go out of their way to "affirm" students' pronouns, and to keep those pronouns secret from parents. Some parents use props, like a doll, to train their children to use parents' preferred pronouns. Even the US Navy has issued their directives on using preferred pronouns.
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