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🧵 A thread on PREFERRED PRONOUNS and why I won't use them.
This is based on my Substack open letter to @peterboghossian (and @aliveness_ape) following their replies to criticisms about calling "Rachel" Levine 'she', and Peter asking @ThePosieParker about pronoun use in a recent… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
This is based on my Substack open letter to @peterboghossian (and @aliveness_ape) following their replies to criticisms about calling "Rachel" Levine 'she', and Peter asking @ThePosieParker about pronoun use in a recent… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
🆗 First, where I think we agree:
🔹We don't want to live in a world of cruelty
(I'll come to #BeKind in a bit)
🔹Sex is real, binary and immutable
🔹Authoritarianism is bad for humankind in all its forms
🔹Gender ideology is harmful
So...
🔹We don't want to live in a world of cruelty
(I'll come to #BeKind in a bit)
🔹Sex is real, binary and immutable
🔹Authoritarianism is bad for humankind in all its forms
🔹Gender ideology is harmful
So...
😶 WHAT'S IN A PRONOUN?
🔸3rd person pronouns in English refer to animate referents (living beings) by their SEX
🔸“singular they” is only such in a social-pragmatic sense when we don’t know the individual’s SEX.
“Who was that at the door?”
“I don’t know but *they* left a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
🔸3rd person pronouns in English refer to animate referents (living beings) by their SEX
🔸“singular they” is only such in a social-pragmatic sense when we don’t know the individual’s SEX.
“Who was that at the door?”
“I don’t know but *they* left a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
See also the excellent @TTExulansic’s article “What’s In A Pronoun?”
americanmind.org/salvo/whats-in…
americanmind.org/salvo/whats-in…
❓GENDER > DISABILITY
▪️ There are millions of children and adults with cognitive, psychological, and physical conditions that result in a communication disability
▪️ English as an additional language (or not speaking it at all in an English-speaking country) is not a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
▪️ There are millions of children and adults with cognitive, psychological, and physical conditions that result in a communication disability
▪️ English as an additional language (or not speaking it at all in an English-speaking country) is not a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
In the UK, disability is a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010 but loses out in real
life to gender ideology repeatedly.
My 4 part series on communication disability and discrimination can be found on my Substack starting here:
open.substack.com/pub/loupreston…
life to gender ideology repeatedly.
My 4 part series on communication disability and discrimination can be found on my Substack starting here:
open.substack.com/pub/loupreston…
The full series and a letter template to use to support children with communication disabilities is here via @WomensRightsNet
womensrights.network/communication-…
womensrights.network/communication-…
😵💫YOU ARE UNDER MY SPELL: Hypnosis
An effect of using “she” for men repeatedly is a hypnotic one.
Barra Kerr wrote that “Pronouns are Rohypnol” in her @fairplaywomen article:
fairplayforwomen.com/pronouns/
The author outlines the cost of using preferred pronouns to oneself as a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
An effect of using “she” for men repeatedly is a hypnotic one.
Barra Kerr wrote that “Pronouns are Rohypnol” in her @fairplaywomen article:
fairplayforwomen.com/pronouns/
The author outlines the cost of using preferred pronouns to oneself as a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
🔥 LIAR, LIAR, PANTS ON FIRE
If English third person pronouns refer to a person’s sex, is it lying to use an opposite sex pronoun?
I agree with @RichardDawkins that,
“I don’t much care about what’s good and evil, actually I care about what’s TRUE”
And I agree with… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
If English third person pronouns refer to a person’s sex, is it lying to use an opposite sex pronoun?
I agree with @RichardDawkins that,
“I don’t much care about what’s good and evil, actually I care about what’s TRUE”
And I agree with… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
🗞️NEWS NOT FIT TO PRINT and 👨🏻⚖️WHEN THE LAW GETS IT WRONG
Example 1️⃣
@anyabike, Barrister, provides detail of a case in which a man, who identifies as a woman, used a female staff changing room in an NHS hospital and exposed himself.
No-one had asked the women if it was ok for… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Example 1️⃣
@anyabike, Barrister, provides detail of a case in which a man, who identifies as a woman, used a female staff changing room in an NHS hospital and exposed himself.
No-one had asked the women if it was ok for… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@anyabike Example 2️⃣
@MPMacLachlan was assaulted by a man at London’s Speaker’s Corner.
Her assailant was “Tara Flik Wood”, a man who identifies as a woman. It left Maria traumatised and with panic attacks.
When the case came to court, the Judge expected “as a matter of courtesy” that… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@MPMacLachlan was assaulted by a man at London’s Speaker’s Corner.
Her assailant was “Tara Flik Wood”, a man who identifies as a woman. It left Maria traumatised and with panic attacks.
When the case came to court, the Judge expected “as a matter of courtesy” that… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
🍆🍒HER PENIS
The Times published:
“A transgender woman has denied raping two women with her penis as she went on trial at the High Court in Glasgow”
And Sky News reported,
“Transgender rapist Isla Bryson jailed for eight years for attacks on two women when she was a man. An… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The Times published:
“A transgender woman has denied raping two women with her penis as she went on trial at the High Court in Glasgow”
And Sky News reported,
“Transgender rapist Isla Bryson jailed for eight years for attacks on two women when she was a man. An… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Women lose out at every step.
🔺25% of women in the UK experience sexual assault or rape as an adult.
🔺Over 30% of female prisoners report a history of sexual abuse. Almost 60% of women reported experiencing domestic violence.
🔺Close to 1 in every 5 male prisoners have been… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
🔺25% of women in the UK experience sexual assault or rape as an adult.
🔺Over 30% of female prisoners report a history of sexual abuse. Almost 60% of women reported experiencing domestic violence.
🔺Close to 1 in every 5 male prisoners have been… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
💖#BeKind
Every time you choose to refer to a man as “she”, you tell that man you’re happy to be polite to him but not the billions of women, who don’t agree with gender ideology and are actively hurt by its real world outcomes.
👉🏻Choosing to call men by “she” is an active… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Every time you choose to refer to a man as “she”, you tell that man you’re happy to be polite to him but not the billions of women, who don’t agree with gender ideology and are actively hurt by its real world outcomes.
👉🏻Choosing to call men by “she” is an active… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
I won’t #BeKind to Levine
Levine (man) - in a position of power - is an autogynophile - wants to be called “she” - he promotes mutilation and sterilisation of minors.
Levine (man) - in a position of power - is an autogynophile - wants to be called “she” - he promotes mutilation and sterilisation of minors.
I won’t #BeKind to men who use women’s toilets, men who use women’s spaces, men who use women’s words.
Women bear the brunt of Kindness Authoritarianism.
As @sarahditum states, “kindness is gendered. Women are the ones who are supposed to be kind, to give of themselves, to play… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Women bear the brunt of Kindness Authoritarianism.
As @sarahditum states, “kindness is gendered. Women are the ones who are supposed to be kind, to give of themselves, to play… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Voluntary vs Coerced?
Does pronoun use, voluntary or coerced, lead to an escalation in ideological capture and behaviours?
To what extent is it a voluntary choice when there’s such social pressure, especially on women, when cancellation still happens, when there’s grooming and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Does pronoun use, voluntary or coerced, lead to an escalation in ideological capture and behaviours?
To what extent is it a voluntary choice when there’s such social pressure, especially on women, when cancellation still happens, when there’s grooming and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
This is a good point; pronoun use = socially acceptable, and thus the obverse must be not using pronouns = socially unacceptable.
We know that social pressure works. It’s what used to keep men out of women’s toilets.
It’s now used to gaslight and instill fear of exclusion and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
We know that social pressure works. It’s what used to keep men out of women’s toilets.
It’s now used to gaslight and instill fear of exclusion and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
If you don’t want to be seen as cruel, you’re being Kind. But who is harmed by that “Kind”?
Whilst not necessarily promoting gender ideology nor being coerced directly when choosing to use preferred pronouns, if you use preferred pronouns, you are choosing to swim in that sea,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Whilst not necessarily promoting gender ideology nor being coerced directly when choosing to use preferred pronouns, if you use preferred pronouns, you are choosing to swim in that sea,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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