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Pronouns on BBC?

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thenonsensepotter · 21/04/2021 19:55

Watching Glow Up on iplayer and every time they show a contestants name on the screen their pronoun is included in brackets. I don't watch a lot of current TV, is this a proper "thing" now or just this one program?

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IamAporcupine · 21/04/2021 23:18

@AbsintheFriends - thanks, that was very helpful

Scepticaltank · 21/04/2021 23:19

Ruth's bills?

Brownteddybear · 21/04/2021 23:20

@JackieLavertysWeirdVoice

Makes me actually want a TV license

Why haven't you got a TV licence?

The delicious irony that the one person on here "agreeing with the BBC" doesn't have a TV licence.

I agree we shouldn't be funding their ridiculous agenda. It's insidious. Glow Up features on BBC3 which has Drag Race etc. They're trying to make stating preferred pronouns a mainstream thing so that more and more people blindly go along with it for fear of what, I don't know.

I loved Glow Up although I suspect I'm not their target audience.

PotholeHellhole · 21/04/2021 23:20

In a recent post, the symbol * probably stood for an a.

Radically changes the meaning.

Quaagars · 21/04/2021 23:21

Oh OK, just re-read the comment back
On my female man days I'll need a payrise for my imagined blls."*
Why star out balls lol, hardly a rude word Grin
Read as balls!

Quaagars · 21/04/2021 23:22

read as bills even
ffs I give up lol

Scepticaltank · 21/04/2021 23:24

Ah so we are discussing Ruth's balls?

ErrolTheDragon · 21/04/2021 23:27

A sort of pun maybe?

LostToucan · 21/04/2021 23:27

I was born with a uterus and XX chromosomes. I'm quite feminine as in I like mascara and have long blond hair. I don't bake or sew or tilt my head a lot though. But my best friend wears a boilersuit all day, fixes cars, has a short-back-and-sides and never wears make-up. Everyone knows she's a woman though. Where does the identity come into it? I just am. My friend just is. We're women.

And if your best friend was at school now they would probably be persuaded that they were gender fluid or non binary.

Instead of a woman that likes tinkering with cars and wearing practical clothing.

PotholeHellhole · 21/04/2021 23:29

I always used to look up to Zoë Ball when she was a children's TV presenter.

LostToucan · 21/04/2021 23:30

@PotholeHellhole

I always used to look up to Zoë Ball when she was a children's TV presenter.
Are you very short?
PotholeHellhole · 21/04/2021 23:31

You may say that: I couldn't possibly comment.

Scepticaltank · 21/04/2021 23:33

Lets see what the cat thinks again.

Helps clarify things.

twitter.com/tappy1008/status/1384405655876943874

PotholeHellhole · 21/04/2021 23:33

Bet she can get stuff down from the top shelf in a supermarket, though.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 21/04/2021 23:36

That cat video is a beautiful moment that you couldn't hope to choreograph Grin

Quaagars · 21/04/2021 23:36

And if your best friend was at school now they would probably be persuaded that they were gender fluid or non binary.

That is just so crap though - just because you're told that being trans exists, doesn't automatically mean that you must be one too if you like "boy things" (whatever that means?)
I mean, I always loved cars, Lego, climbing trees, getting dirty, and scoffed at "girl" things whatever they are (nails, Barbies, dolls, the colour pink?!)
I'm sorry, but this kind of argument smacks of the 80s which I'm old enough to remember where don't tell people being gay exists, or you might put ideas in their heads!
You either are or you aren't.

AbsintheFriends · 21/04/2021 23:39

You either are or you aren't

How do you account for the 4000% rise in girls identifying as trans Quaagars?

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Jillly · 21/04/2021 23:42

So why the 4000% increase in girls identifying as trans?
They must be getting the idea from somewhere..
I was born in the mid 80s, toys and clothes were much less gendered then..
Kids wore practical clothes and played with toys. No pink lego then.

Quaagars · 21/04/2021 23:45

Do you have a link or a source for that?
Just because more people may be identifying as trans now, doesn't mean that it's suddenly become a "problem", or an "endemic" or whatever.
Just that there's more awareness now and people feel they're more able to be themselves!

daisyjgrey · 21/04/2021 23:45

I doesn't matter. It is affecting you in no way at all. If you don't want to use pronouns, don't.

DietrichandDiMaggio · 21/04/2021 23:46

He always says pregnant people

It's like people say people who menstruate etc, but you never see reference to people with testicles or people who produce sperm.

Jillly · 21/04/2021 23:47

None of the girls I went to school with were or are trans.
Some of us had eating disorders, which gave way to self harm..
Some of us were emos, goth wasnt really a thing but clothes and music made a part of our identities..
We didn't have ready access to porn, but wr did to drink and drugs..
We didn't know what lip fillers or fake tan or hair extensions were.

AbsintheFriends · 21/04/2021 23:47

Do you have a link or a source for that?

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/09/16/minister-orders-inquiry-4000-per-cent-rise-children-wanting/

PastMyBestBeforeDate · 21/04/2021 23:47

Why does it to some come down to what you're dressed in, or whether you're paying bills as to whether you're male or female
Can you expand on this? I pay bills and wear shirts. So does DP. Who's using this as a thing. I hope it's not Mr/Mrs & Mrs Bunce because that's an administrative burden nobody needs.