They them pronouns

[Yeahnahyeah]

So I just watched a you tube video by a non binary blue haired person who was reporting on her pride parade experience. This person uses they/them pronouns.

They spent well over ten minutes complaning that wherever they went that day (watching the parade, coffee, meeting friends) sooo many people did not use the correct they/them pronouns; it was constant, and offensive, etc etc.

The thing is, I only very rarely hear my pronouns used. (She/her ). I find it hard to believe this person heard them so many times over a few hours, so I'm calling it out.

How often do you hear your pronouns on an average day?

And I feel really stupid and a bit resentful that I have had to use 'they' throughout this post, or do the rules on here not extend to they/them?

Just out of interest, did all the people who were told not to say 'she' get told not to say 'he' as well?
My mother always said 'who's she, the cat's mother?' but she never asked me if he was the hamster's dad or something. Is it worse to be known as she than he?

Funny that. I don't think I was pulled up on using 'he'.

Yes, agree Errol. It’s also quite difficult when you can clearly observe the sex of the person in front of you but you are required to use the pronoun for the opposite sex or they. Not insurmountable but difficult.

I teach at a university and despite the apparent spread in wokeness, I have very very few students myself who have asked me to use certain pronouns. It’s probably also because I don’t make a huge show of it. I have colleagues who spend half an hour in the first seminar going round the room asking for pronouns, even if they have no trans students. If my students feel violated by the fact that I don’t mention it, I have yet to hear about it. I think many secretly feel that the performative wokeness from academics is slightly pathetic (or maybe that’s just my view). If one of my students came up to me privately and said that they preferred a certain mode of address, I would do so but I don’t have that happen really. I think that the places where they all seem to have different pronouns, they are often whipped up by the staff to act like that. Or maybe they do gender-studies (which I don’t teach).

Reminds me of Fr Ted.
'Call me Len??! It's Bishop Brennan to you, you little bollix'

Reminds me of those bloody tests where you have to say the colour you see - so words will be BLUE but printed in red. Tricky!

I've never heard anyone say anything about their own pronouns in real life. (Though I have briefly met maybe three transgender people.) It is clearly a fashion. I think a problem would only arise in practice if someone looked just like a bloke but insisted otherwise. I assume most transgender people try to look like the gender they are adopting.

I’ve seen the badges. I work close to several uni colleges. They ‘They/them’ badge wearers are generally those trying to attract attention to themselves. It’s all so tiresome!