A couple of mini-rants.
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docwebsterCaveat: The following represents nothing more than itches of the intellect, and as I'm already in a particularly foul mood anyway, please take it with a large grain of salt, or I will be forced to tie a knot in your trachea. Thank you.
Christmas.
You know, I'm not by any means a stereotypical Christian. Not even close, it must be said. But I do get mightily annoyed when people don't treat it with as much respect as they would like for their religion, or lack thereof as the case may be. If you want respect, you give respect. Otherwise, kindly shut your cake hole. Hypocrisy doesn't wear well on anyone, least of all people who presumably have an intelligence quotient somewhat above that of a squashed gnat.
There is one extremely dear person whose journal shall remain nameless (because this person truly is very cool, but if they choose to react to this, it's not my place to say them nay) who had , in their journal, one of the most condescending things I've ever read. To wit, referring to Christ as "An imaginary friend". In other words, if you believe in Christ you're displaying the approximate maturity of a preschooler. Nice.
I reiterate: it's perfectly okay if you don't believe. It's perfectly okay if your religion of choice is worshipping a left handed Albanian dentist from Newark named Morty. But do *not* look down your nose at those who believe in Christ, simply because they believe in the brand that's been (arguably) number one on the metaphysical hit parade for a couple millenia or so.
And don't come to me with "Well the Christian religion has been blahblahblahing the worshippers of blahblahblah for x number of years" (or any of the innumerable variations thereupon) argument. That's not the issue here. The issue is inherent hypocrisy. In short, knock it the hell off.
Now, on to Gender neutrality.
I will be the first to admit we of the male half of the species have been - by and large but by no means all - enormous assheads since pretty much day one. But if I hear or see the phrase "Gender neutral" one more gaddam time, I am going to snap.
Guess what, folks - we have different genders. Deal with it. I am entirely weary of the efforts of some of our citizenry to make this society we live in seemingly as bland and as featureless as Pat Boone music.
I mean.. "sie"? "Hir"? (Don't even get me started on "Zie") By changing one letter, it's supposed to redress the balance? No, it just simply makes you look like you can't spell.
Ah. That's better.
Christmas.
You know, I'm not by any means a stereotypical Christian. Not even close, it must be said. But I do get mightily annoyed when people don't treat it with as much respect as they would like for their religion, or lack thereof as the case may be. If you want respect, you give respect. Otherwise, kindly shut your cake hole. Hypocrisy doesn't wear well on anyone, least of all people who presumably have an intelligence quotient somewhat above that of a squashed gnat.
There is one extremely dear person whose journal shall remain nameless (because this person truly is very cool, but if they choose to react to this, it's not my place to say them nay) who had , in their journal, one of the most condescending things I've ever read. To wit, referring to Christ as "An imaginary friend". In other words, if you believe in Christ you're displaying the approximate maturity of a preschooler. Nice.
I reiterate: it's perfectly okay if you don't believe. It's perfectly okay if your religion of choice is worshipping a left handed Albanian dentist from Newark named Morty. But do *not* look down your nose at those who believe in Christ, simply because they believe in the brand that's been (arguably) number one on the metaphysical hit parade for a couple millenia or so.
And don't come to me with "Well the Christian religion has been blahblahblahing the worshippers of blahblahblah for x number of years" (or any of the innumerable variations thereupon) argument. That's not the issue here. The issue is inherent hypocrisy. In short, knock it the hell off.
Now, on to Gender neutrality.
I will be the first to admit we of the male half of the species have been - by and large but by no means all - enormous assheads since pretty much day one. But if I hear or see the phrase "Gender neutral" one more gaddam time, I am going to snap.
Guess what, folks - we have different genders. Deal with it. I am entirely weary of the efforts of some of our citizenry to make this society we live in seemingly as bland and as featureless as Pat Boone music.
I mean.. "sie"? "Hir"? (Don't even get me started on "Zie") By changing one letter, it's supposed to redress the balance? No, it just simply makes you look like you can't spell.
Ah. That's better.
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GNPs
Date: 2002-12-16 06:27 am (UTC)(I'm sorry, the rest of this turned into a bit of a tangential ramble, but I'm going to leave it here by way of explanation for why I asked the question.) For example, 'she' is an accurate description of my physical sex characteristics, but there are times when it really chafes to have that pronoun used in reference to me, because being 'she' carries a whole lot of social implications that just Don't Fit who I am. I don't usually make much noise about it because it's fairly rare for me to feel that way, but I can *definitely* understand why those who don't fit into traditional gender stereotypes-- or whose physical sex characteristics don't match their gender-- might want some alternative, and it seems only courteous to do what I can to respect those differences, if that makes sense. Then again, I have no objection to gender neutral pronouns, and use them regularly when I don't know the gender of a person to whom I'm referring, or when the gender of the person to whom I'm referring is really irrelevant, because it seems more precise and accurate than assigning a gender at random.