In other news, Gender Studies professors confirm that it's definitely not misgendering if they unilaterally decide that everyone is "they" now. I propose "postconsensual equitygendering" for the lexiconhttps://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/why-we-should-all-use-they-them-pronouns/ …
The part where "the pain of being denied gender recognition" is explicitly acknowledged alongside a drawn out argument that gender bias can be made to disappear via wordplay. Either "gender" is pointing to something meaningful and persistent, or it isn't.
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There's a toddlers' musical group called The Wiggles thats massive in my country. One of the original members said in an interview that when he started, he had to learn to say "ok everybody" instead of "ok boys and girls". 1/
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I recall he implied it was to have the audience's primary identity as "the audience", not "boys in the audience". I will always refer to you as a woman, but I think those who disagree with you have a different conception of "they" - one which strives for a similar effect. 2/
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