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06/03/2024
An open letter to all the neo-pronoun pushers out there:
We don’t care at all about your gender. We don’t care how you choose to dress. We don’t care if you change your name. We don’t care about your sexual preference, who you’re attracted to, your political ideology, or what you do in your spare time. We really, really don’t care. That is not to say we don’t care about you as a person, but regarding your gender, it’s none of our business and it has no bearing on the lives of anyone other than yours.
We all have feminine and masculine characteristics. We all are a composition of feminine and masculine energy. Every person on earth possesses traits from both ends of the gender spectrum. It’s only a matter of degrees. Even the people who try their damndest to fit into one particular box, deep down, have aspects of self that fit into both. So I'm sorry to report, you are not a unique and special snowflake deserving of special mouth noises. Pronouns are simply linguistic tools we use to identify the subject of a sentence. That’s it. You are not your pronouns. You are not your gender. In fact, your gender and pronouns are the least interesting thing about you.
Pronouns are tied to biology not because people historically identified perfectly with the perceived connotations associated with their pronouns, but because humans innately are able to identify one another’s biology with an inordinately high degree of success. Regardless of what you’re wearing or how many surgeries you have, nearly all humans can see through a person’s exterior presentation and know their actual biology. It is unconscious. It’s a sixth sense. Thus, the binary aspect to pronouns is the most efficient and effective way to use this linguistic tool, a tool that’s sole purpose is to narrow down the subject of a sentence. There is no need to ask someone their pronouns when their biology is apparent.
In pronoun's binary form, we are able to consistently reduce the possible subjects of a sentence by 50%, on average, because 50% of our population falls into one or the other biological categories. Ever play a guessing game like, Guess the Celebrity in 20 Questions? What’s the first question you ask? Is your person male? Or is your person female? Why, because whatever the answer, you can reduce 50% of the possible candidates. You can best determine the subject of the sentence.
We all have different brains. There are people who cannot visualize anything. There are people with no inner monologue. The way our brains process data are vastly different from one person to the next, but what isn’t vastly different is our mechanism for communication. When the majority of humans communicate verbally, we do so in a flow state of consciousness. We are not thinking about the words coming out of our mouth, rather we have intent and then open our minds and allow that intent to flow out.
Definite articles like, “the”, and “my” are not consciously processed by us during verbal communication. These words are automatic. They are unconscious. If you want to see what I mean, try it for yourself. Replace the word, “the,” with another word like "quack," and see how many years it takes you to make that rote. Moreover, pay attention to how much making an unconscious aspect of speech conscious slows down and impedes your ability to think entirely.
For most people, this results in a huge reduction in our ability to produce cogent thoughts and ideas. That’s because not only do we need to be wary of definite articles, or in the case of gender ideologues, their pronouns, but we need to be wary of every word we speak, because any one of them at any time, could be a pronoun. If you are communicating in a flow state, which is the optimal state of thinking and communicating, then you are not thinking about the next sentence or even the next word. You are instead conscious of your intent and have opened yourself up to communicate it verbally without the need to manually construct every sentence, word by word.
In essence, by thrusting this requirement onto us, you are asking us to no longer think while in your presence. By forcing us to use specific pronouns subject only to you, based on not biology (which again, we interpret automatically) but on how you’re subjectively feeling, makes this once subconscious linguistic tool, conscious. Another word for unconscious is automatic. Another word for conscious is manual. So, you are taking an automatic mental process and forcing us to make it manual.
Furthermore, taking offense at something unintentional is a reflection of you, not us. It’s like being offended by a McDonald’s employee when you order a cheeseburger and you’re given a hamburger by mistake. Would you take offense to that?
So sure, we can re**rd our ability to think clearly and concisely to accommodate your feelings, but I don’t think that is what you really want, is it? If it is, I have to question your motives, as I thought your desire was for the world to see you as you see yourself, a reflection of your own unique mental processes. In other words, I thought you wanted the world to accept the unique way your mind is structured, and your brain works. In a sentence, that is all we too want for ourselves.
