18th October is International Pronouns Day

No one has ever asked me my pronouns yet thank fuck but I will answer I/me/myself because those are the pronouns I use. I'm not wrong, am I?

I rather like the idea of claiming 'one' as my pronoun - very Hyacinth Bucket!
Or perhaps I'll channel Mrs Thatcher and the Queen - we and us?
I do feel one should take the opportunity to take the piss with a poker face and act very offended if one is deprived of one's royal we by some common upstart.

What about those square brackets that no one really uses or notices.

I suspect they are feeling really isolated

Quite. I've never understood what's supposed to be so triggering/ upsetting about being misgendered, or even dead named. I'm misgendered not infrequently, despite very definitely presenting as the sex that I am

I used to referee men’s rugby and was fine with being called ‘sir’, as it’s the generic name for referees. I saw it as more of a job title than a gendered form of address and it was better than ‘miss’ or ‘ma’am’. Can’t say I ever felt triggered or insulted or even in need of a lie down in a dark room.

Menno has a song about this very day

Her Majesties (me) just cannot wait.

Majestiesia will be the champion of pronouns the livelong day. With Impunity!!

Seriously. Is the writer of This Flag Means Death having us on?

And to respond to a message above I would like to reinstate 'thou', it is sadly lacking in the English language - it is much easier to establish a distance or superiority in French.

Bollocks! No, I refuse - I have decided to make it 'International All About Me Day' so if you could all just centre and celebrate me for the day that would be perfect. And if you don't that will be literal violence towards me me me.

Don't y'all listen to GrumpyPanda!

I thought 'you' is the equivalent of 'vous', it's 'thou' that we've mislaid.
Wouldst thou like to reinstate it?

Don't get all the sneering on here, I think it's an excellent idea. There aren't enough pronouns around. I'd like to direct everybody's attention to a particular problem area, namely the egregious absence on the English language of a formal 2nd person pronoun to parallel "Vous" or "Sie" in other European languages. This would also open up vast new opportunities for huffiness - get addressed with "you" rather than "*You"? "I don't recall us ever being nursery playmates."

Tediously, I was asked to share my pronouns recently, totally inappropriately, unnecessarily and potentially divisive to our voluntary group.

I contacted the organisation's hq and the man I spoke with calmly informed me that he didnt engage with it, but wasn't totally sure what the organisation's policy was, referring me further up the food chain.

Still waiting for a reply.
I'm really hoping it fades out sooner rather than later, it cannot be enforced and it's clunky, confusing and unsustainable. And honestly, who gives a shiny?

You are not the only one who has been randomly Racheled! I have also been Claired. Neither name sounds like my actual name. I was misgendered repeatedly as a child. It hasn’t happened much in adulthood apart from that time a man said to me: “Big Issue, sir?” Instantly mortified and embarrassed, he was, while I was mildly amused. He’d seen someone tall out of the corner of his eye, wearing a big black coat, and had assumed I was a bloke. Nobody died or was literally genocided. Life went on. Ho/hum.

Oh no,I missed it.

Again.

What a shame.

Never mind.

@JanesLittleGirl What do we want? International Gerundive Day. When do we want it? -
(To be decided.)

I chose my insurance offer for university based entirely on the Searle hunting the gerund cartoon on the door of the faculty. It seemed entirely rational to my 17 year old self.

Wouldn't have done so now as they are one of the more captured places.

Every day is trans day.

@Ormally

On the subject of gerunds, I can't help thinking of these Ronald Searle cartoons - don't know if I am allowed to link in this way, but I will have a go.

Gerunds are fine as they are verbs acting as nouns (transnouns?). It's the poor gerundive that needs support. Ronald Searle shows one being cut dead by a gerund. And just because you need a whole phrase in English to create one.

International Gerundive Day Now!

It's also National chocolate cup cake day.

Sure. Which is the word to be put?

Yes, that point is frequently made. There are cartoons and memes about it. But for goodness' sake don't say that out loud to one of the Godself crew or you'll be in for a 30 minute lecture on various theories of biblical translation (which, appropriately, are a spectrum not a binary choice), how grammatical gender works in Hebrew and Greek, cultural assumptions inherent in historical texts ...

I'll put it this way: anyone who uses Godself has thereby already demonstrated that they are not someone who has a traditional approach to biblical interpretation or the authority of Scripture.

I refuse to participate in anything to do with 'stating pronouns during introductions' too pompous

They have also drawn attention away from International Okapi Day. They want all 365.

“basic to human dignity”

What utter nonsense.

Those campaigning to remove female humans’ right to single-sex female-only spaces when in a state of undress have the cheek to talk about basic human dignity in the context of…pronouns?

What entitlement, self-absorption, and arrogance.