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15-09-2019, 06:54 PM | #76 | |||
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I think it's a load of rubbish .
Sam Smith is male & he's been called HE & HIM all the time & all of a sudden he wants to feel special & wants a new label. I'm not calling him something different . How exactly can you call an individual "they" & "them" , it's ridiculous you only say that if it's a group of people or something. And I've noticed some of these "non binary" people pick & choose when to be offended. Sam Smith can say he feels like a woman or is in touch with his feminine side etc ,but he is still a man . If someone wants to identify as a table or bench ,what do we call them ?? . |
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15-09-2019, 07:04 PM | #77 | ||
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You call them a table or a bench?
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15-09-2019, 07:08 PM | #78 | |||
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I feel like this is only annoying because its sam smith whos always been an attention seeker
the fact that he made this announcement on the same day everyone was talking about Jesy just makes me think its so intentional
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15-09-2019, 07:15 PM | #79 | |||
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Are you being serious?
People already get confused & misgender people. Even unisex is getting mixed into this non binary silliness. |
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15-09-2019, 07:27 PM | #80 | |||
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I think it's just confusing things further with the whole gender neutral & unisex thing getting mixed in . And people already get misgendered , so if they don't want to be identified as either then that just muddles it up even more Last edited by GoldHeart; 15-09-2019 at 07:27 PM. |
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15-09-2019, 07:42 PM | #81 | |||
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15-09-2019, 07:48 PM | #82 | |||
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15-09-2019, 08:02 PM | #83 | ||
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Meh. I think anyone has the right to be referred to however they want, in principle. I think they/them poses a slight problem because those pronouns already have a specific meaning for collective/plural... So also using it to refer to someone individually unnecessarily complicates things? In normal usage if you hear they/them you assume that multiple people are the subject of the statement .
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15-09-2019, 08:18 PM | #84 | |||
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I'm not calling an individual "they" or "them" it sounds stupid . And I will continue to call Sam Smith HE & HIM .
I've heard people call non binary people "they " & "them" & it sounds like bad grammar or as if it's about a group of people as in plural . |
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15-09-2019, 08:24 PM | #85 | |||
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like the boys
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The use of the singular 'they' dates back to 14th century English, but go off I guess
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15-09-2019, 08:28 PM | #86 | |||
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Pretty sure when people usually refer to "they" or "them" it's plural & it just complicates & confuses things if non binary people now want to be called that . But you go off I guess .
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15-09-2019, 08:29 PM | #87 | |||
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like the boys
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Again, it's not a new thing
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15-09-2019, 08:35 PM | #88 | |||
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Language gets altered to fit with the times , but you can't now decide to use "they" & "them" in singular form when it's currently used as plural .But whatever .
When I use "they" & "them" I'm talking about a group of people or something. |
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15-09-2019, 09:20 PM | #89 | |||
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Yes ‘they’ or ‘them’ is a plural, minefield for anyone learning a language especially when you can’t identify by just looking at the person
There was a guy in Sunday politics today who referred to Sam Smith as a hero, then he backtracked to say well he couldn’t actually call them that because that inferred they were male, so even the woke people have issues with it
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15-09-2019, 09:21 PM | #90 | |||
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15-09-2019, 09:24 PM | #91 | |||
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Really? I travel into London a lot and never seen one of these, what does the badge say
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15-09-2019, 09:37 PM | #92 | |||
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Lmao this thread on just page 1 is a joke.
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15-09-2019, 09:45 PM | #93 | |||
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Then with the whole sexism thing, people tried to call Female role models "heroine" ,but i don't think we always need to be soo specific about male & female pronouns when it comes to that as a female can still be called a hero i would say . So i just think of Sam smith as an attention seeker who's clinging to another label . |
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