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Old 02-07-2025 | 10:49 AM
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Originally Posted by 2StgTurbine
Asking someone to use a preferred pronoun is not "jamming it down your throat."
Nobody has ever asked me to do that honestly. The issue I have is when they want ME to adopt all kinds of crazy identity labels, and revolve around THEIR axle, for reasons I don't pretend to understand.

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But as usual, you are the rational one who doesn't have any extreme positions. All of your preferences are perfectly reasonable...
Exactly, couldn't have said it better. About 80% of voters agree with me too, so I think we're done with this for a few decades.
Old 02-07-2025 | 12:08 PM
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Originally Posted by rickair7777
Twice actually. One an FA, another at social event (non-aviation).

In both cases I was talking about something utterly unrelated to gender and said something along the lines of:

"My wife and I went to ABC for XYZ holiday"

Response:

"You mean your PARTNER"

Agree that some people can be obnoxious. However,….that schit can only bother you if you let it.
Old 02-07-2025 | 02:33 PM
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Originally Posted by rickair7777
Nobody has ever asked me to do that honestly. The issue I have is when they want ME to adopt all kinds of crazy identity labels, and revolve around THEIR axle, for reasons I don't pretend to understand.



Exactly, couldn't have said it better. About 80% of voters agree with me too, so I think we're done with this for a few decades.
That's a bit of a contradiction to my question but, either way, you don't have to comply, you can just walk away or say something benign. No need to get bent out of shape.
Old 02-07-2025 | 05:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Lowslung
Agree that some people can be obnoxious. However,….that schit can only bother you if you let it.
It should bother you if someone tells you how you should address your own freaking wife for fooks sake!
Old 02-07-2025 | 07:31 PM
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Originally Posted by DogPit
It should bother you if someone tells you how you should address your own freaking wife for fooks sake!
There are 300M plus people in this country & many, many widely varying viewpoints about how things should work. Some of them are going to be obnoxious & try and shove their opinions "down your throat" (no group has a monopoly on this philosophy btw). Some of them just want you to call them 'them'. If you believe pronouns are the thing we should be paying attention to right now, I'm not sure what to tell you. There are about a million actual problems I'd rather solve than waste America's time arguing about what to call someone who's already told you what they'd like to be called. If the Karens are that far under your skin, that sounds like a 'you' problem to me.
Old 02-07-2025 | 07:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Lowslung
There are 300M plus people in this country & many, many widely varying viewpoints about how things should work. Some of them are going to be obnoxious & try and shove their opinions "down your throat" (no group has a monopoly on this philosophy btw). Some of them just want you to call them 'them'. If you believe pronouns are the thing we should be paying attention to right now, I'm not sure what to tell you. There are about a million actual problems I'd rather solve than waste America's time arguing about what to call someone who's already told you what they'd like to be called. If the Karens are that far under your skin, that sounds like a 'you' problem to me.
I never once spoke about pronouns so I don't know what you're going on about.
Old 02-07-2025 | 08:35 PM
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Originally Posted by DogPit
It should bother you if someone tells you how you should address your own freaking wife for fooks sake!
Why is she even hanging out? She should be cooking and cleaning and rearing the kids.

This DEI cancer is years in the making. Going from the weigh ins, not permitting marriage or kids, to the PC change from stewardesses? This country has been going down hill since they allowed these chicks to keep their jobs past their 20s.

And now we have to fly with chicks who think they can be pilots. DEI run amok.
Old 02-08-2025 | 06:25 AM
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The pronoun "IT" works just fine. Easy to add a "SH" to the beginning as necessary. Covers all the loons just fine.
Old 02-08-2025 | 09:12 AM
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Originally Posted by 2StgTurbine
20 years ago the same people were afraid of gay marriage. Now they are worried that 1.6% of the population wants to use pronouns that confuse them. I wonder what the next segment of the population we can hate 20 years from now.
if it is only 1.6% how come it is all we hear about? How come we have 256 days a year devoted to them? Seems like they don't like getting treated as equals, they want to be put up on a pedestal above everybody else. Sorry, the "why do you care" argument doesn't work anymore. BTW, what does the "plus" mean? Tell the truth.
Old 02-08-2025 | 09:14 AM
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Originally Posted by 2StgTurbine
Asking someone to use a preferred pronoun is not "jamming it down your throat."

But as usual, you are the rational one who doesn't have any extreme positions. All of your preferences are perfectly reasonable...
People have tried to and successfully gotten people fired over it. So yeah, it is getting jammed down our throats. Also I am not going to ****en call you a plural as your pronoun you freaken weirdo.
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