Friday, May 22, 2020
Australians should say 'ya'll' instead of 'ladies and gentlemen' - according to politically correct new push for 'gender-neutral language'
Australians should be saying 'y'all' instead of 'ladies and gentlemen' or 'boys and girls', according to the United Nations, which has intensified its push for 'gender-neutral language'.
UN Women Australia, a national branch of the global organisation, tweeted part of a its new 'gender-neutral dictionary' on Monday.
The list urged people to replace common words such as 'landlord', 'husband/wife' and 'manpower' with 'owner', 'spouse' and 'workforce'.
A more comprehensive list on the website directed Australians to use Americanisms such as 'y'all' or 'folks' instead of 'ladies and gentlemen' or 'boys and girls'.
According to the guidelines on the website, the list was made to promote gender equality by abandoning gender-based pronouns, such as 'he' and 'she', and replace them with generic terms, such as 'they'.
New South Wales One Nation leader Mark Latham described the guidelines as 'ludicrous'. 'I'd tell them - y'all crazy,' he told The Daily Telegraph.
'My advice to them is that if they want to use "y'all" I'd strongly advice them to go and live in the United States, go to Alabama.'
Mr Latham said UN Women Australia - which strives to achieve gender equality around the world - should be closed down.
The Institute of Public Affairs' Dr Bella D'Abrera said the recommendations curtail free speech.
'The UN's ridiculous attempt to curtail free speech by dictating which words we can and cannot use is a fundamental attack on the very human rights it purports to defend,' she said.
She claimed the UN is more interested in 'social engineering' than maintaining international peace.
The tweet garnered thousands of responses slamming the organisation for the 'tone deaf' post. 'Stop trying to control people's language. It's creepy and unnecessary,' one woman wrote.
Another pointed out many languages other than English largely comprise gendered words.
'Are you going to rewrite all languages that incorporate grammatical gender? Or is that suppressing a culture,' they asked.
'The coronavirus is ripping through countries killing hundreds of thousands of people and this is what this tone deaf incompetent organization is focused on,' a third said.
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It appears a group is trying its best to be the most smug, self-satisfied bunch of virtue whistling people in the world. "My sakes, aren't we wonderful?" one can hear them saying. "We are so woke," they say. "Everyone will pat us on the pack and praise will surround us we are so progressive," they will cry.
That's what this is all about.
However, a word to them (which they will not see because the most likely do not visit this site.)
Are you really harmed by calling the person who puts a property up for rent a landlord? That term indicates specifically that I am renting property. Merely identifying the person collecting the rent as the owner leaves that relationship in question. Am I only borrowing the property with no money exchanged, or am I actually paying for the privilege. A minor point, perhaps, but one indicates the importance of precision in language.
Then 'spouse': well, okay, maybe. But I am still my wife's husband, and she is my wife. If that somehow offends you, well you have the right to be offended.
Next: if a person uses a male name, dresses as a male, and identifies as a male the proper pronouns are he, him and his. It doesn't matter what genitals are hidden by the clothing.
If, on the other hand, the persons uses a female name, dresses as a female and identifies as female the proper pronouns are she, her and hers.
They and their are gender neutral plural pronouns. To say, "Harold pulled back their chair and sat down on it," leaves us wondering how people claimed that chair and is there going to be a fight about it.
Likewise, the sentence, "Mary was seen shopping just before they went to the opera."
Again there are questions. How many people were with Mary? Or was it several people who saw Mary before they (those who saw Mary) went to the opera? Or perhaps several people saw Mary and she accompanied them to the opera.
Precision, people, precision! Quit screwing around with our language just to follow the PC crowd and feel good about yourselves.
Correction to my post above:
They and their are gender neutral plural pronouns. To say, "Harold pulled back their chair and sat down on it," leaves us wondering how MANY people claimed that chair and is there going to be a fight about it.
At some point these "barristers" for people's feelings are going to declare we must stop using words like "right" and "wrong" because they hurt some people's feelings.
" well you have the right to be offended." Dean
But what you do NOT have is the "right NOT to be offended." And that's the problem today, people think that their feelings actually give them a meaningful and substantial "right" to avoid being offended.
Grow up, buttercups!
Oh phooie on these PC little Snowflakes if their offended then its way too bad Our Freedom of Speech dose not not end where their stupid liberal snowflake feelings begin
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