<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" > <channel> <title> Comments on: Personal Pronouns as Badges of the In-Group </title> <atom:link href="https://dangerousintersection.org/2021/04/05/personal-pronouns-as-badges-of-the-in-group/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>https://dangerousintersection.org/2021/04/05/personal-pronouns-as-badges-of-the-in-group/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=personal-pronouns-as-badges-of-the-in-group&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=personal-pronouns-as-badges-of-the-in-group</link> <description>Human Animals at the Crossroads of Science, Religion, Media and Culture</description> <lastBuildDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2021 03:43:08 +0000</lastBuildDate> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <item> <title> By: Erich Vieth </title> <link>https://dangerousintersection.org/2021/04/05/personal-pronouns-as-badges-of-the-in-group/comment-page-1/#comment-686014</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erich Vieth]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2021 03:43:08 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://dangerousintersection.org/?p=32377#comment-686014</guid> <description><![CDATA[In reply to <a href="https://dangerousintersection.org/2021/04/05/personal-pronouns-as-badges-of-the-in-group/comment-page-1/#comment-686012">Bill Heath</a>. Bill, I command you to bow to the Personal Pronoun God. You shall refer to me as "hiMmmmmm," because I identify as a piece of banana bread tonight. If you fail to do so, I will call you a bigot and never forgive you, because Wokeness cannot comprehend that some humans are imperfect.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://dangerousintersection.org/2021/04/05/personal-pronouns-as-badges-of-the-in-group/comment-page-1/#comment-686012">Bill Heath</a>.</p> <p>Bill, I command you to bow to the Personal Pronoun God. You shall refer to me as “hiMmmmmm,” because I identify as a piece of banana bread tonight. If you fail to do so, I will call you a bigot and never forgive you, because Wokeness cannot comprehend that some humans are imperfect.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> By: Bill Heath </title> <link>https://dangerousintersection.org/2021/04/05/personal-pronouns-as-badges-of-the-in-group/comment-page-1/#comment-686012</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Heath]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2021 20:58:46 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://dangerousintersection.org/?p=32377#comment-686012</guid> <description><![CDATA[Most of us are pretty agreeable. If you want me to call you Erich, or E, or Attorney, or Musician or any of the other "yous" I will try to comply. If I fail occasionally, and you throw a tantrum, the intolerance is yours, not mine. Some of us prefer to use language to communicate meaning, not to signal our virtue, not to have another arrow in our quiver, nor to have a means with which to browbeat anyone. Effective communication needs common definition of terms. For that we have language, which develops over thousands of years something called grammar, an agreed method of assigning meaning. U.S. English is a syntactic language, which uses not merely agreed forms of words but agreed sequence to impart meaning. One of history's great prophets, Lewis Carroll, foretold the pronoun oppression in "Through the Looking Glass:" “When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’ ’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.” "Pronoun oppression" is a power play, pure and simple.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Most of us are pretty agreeable. If you want me to call you Erich, or E, or Attorney, or Musician or any of the other “yous” I will try to comply. If I fail occasionally, and you throw a tantrum, the intolerance is yours, not mine. Some of us prefer to use language to communicate meaning, not to signal our virtue, not to have another arrow in our quiver, nor to have a means with which to browbeat anyone.</p> <p>Effective communication needs common definition of terms. For that we have language, which develops over thousands of years something called grammar, an agreed method of assigning meaning. U.S. English is a syntactic language, which uses not merely agreed forms of words but agreed sequence to impart meaning. One of history’s great prophets, Lewis Carroll, foretold the pronoun oppression in “Through the Looking Glass:”</p> <p>“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’</p> <p>’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’</p> <p>’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”</p> <p>“Pronoun oppression” is a power play, pure and simple.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> </channel> </rss>