Per the Wall Street Journal…
“What are your pronouns?” is a seemingly innocuous question that has become increasingly common.
This is common now? I guess I need to get out more. Because I have never been asked for my “pronouns.”
And have you noticed that these “pronouns” are always the terms one would use to discuss someone in the third person? Face to face, in person terms would be “me,” “I,” “you.” So these loonies declaring their nonstandard crazy “pronouns” aren’t just asking you to address them in a certain way; they’re demanding that people that may not even know them acknowledge their chosen identity schizophrenia, to accept mental illness as reality.
In the unlikely event that someone demands I use some — obviously incorrect — pronoun for… them, I will apply my own pronoun: that fucking nutjob.
I always say that “asshole” is gender-neutral.
Ya beat me to it , Mike. I want a T-shirt proclaiming that to be MY
preferred pronoun. Then, there’s the more elegant synonym …
“SPHINCTOID.” Not only gender-neutral, but also could be re-imagined as complimentary , and can be used in polite company.
My own personal pronouns are ‘YRH’ and ‘HRH’ and I’ll thank you to observe them!