Conservative. Idaho. Software engineer. Historian. Trying to prevent Idiocracy from becoming a documentary.
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"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose." -- Rom. 8:28
Even Ayn Rand didn't think this far when she wrote "Anthem", a stretched-out short story about a world so completely socialist the first person singular pronouns were forgotten. But it's more like Heinlein's "Crazy Years are less fictitious than they seemed when he wrote about them.
Amusement vies with dismay.
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ReplyDelete[sarc]I propose removing the masculine, and always using a blend of the third-person feminine and third-person neutral.
ReplyDeleteSomething along the lines of "she...it."
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I like that one, SJ!
ReplyDelete"She...it" happens, don't it! LOL!
Glen or Glenda maybe? (Yes this PC bull sh*t is like an Ed Wood movie--saying bad would be redundant).
ReplyDeleteHere's goes science education:
Hamilton College Introduces New Diversity Requirement http://www.npr.org/2016/08/23/491103659/hamilton-college-introduces-new-diversity-requirement
I guess I would be flunked or expelled because I would fight like hell if this was required at my school.
When does the word "lesbian" get abolished in the name of degenderization?
ReplyDeleteEven Ayn Rand didn't think this far when she wrote "Anthem", a stretched-out short story about a world so completely socialist the first person singular pronouns were forgotten.
ReplyDeleteBut it's more like Heinlein's "Crazy Years are less fictitious than they seemed when he wrote about them.
Windy: Ayn Rand: Anthem. Awesome. One of the most powerful sci-fi novellas ever.
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