cont'd ...

Or a female doctor?

A Foctor?

I found all those on the web.

I thought it may be good for a bit of a laugh.

My views are so firmly entrenched I found it hard to comment much other than my first post some mums and dads are so convinced we need to be other than we are they even dress boys as girls, public flogging for such parents
would sell out fast if we sold tickets

Thank you Foxy for injecting some sense into this. We really must fight against this rubbish though. What about asking Danny what he wants to be called and then berating him whatever he says. Little nitwit deserves all he gets!

None of the examples you gave , Foxy, were pronouns. They are all pretty much accepted because they make description easier as more women enter these professions.

Of coarse, when they decided to ruin the Ghostbusters franchise by making it an all female affair they were quick to point out the 'actors' were indeed 'actresses'.

But what is talked about here is replacing he/she with xe or they etc, pretending that genders don't exist are aren't valid.

As long as such infantile games are played between consenting adults its ok. IF someone doesn't want to be a he but instead a xe AND the speaker concurs, then there's no problem. But as we know with all these things, they rapidly move from being mere options to being social conventions and ultimately enforceable 'truths'.

Its all about getting people to do as they're told. As was said of Soviet enforced acceptance of obvious lies, a people who accede to mouthing things they know are rubbish are much less likely to mouth illegal truths.

//For example - remember the old Star Trek films and the
saying - "where no man has gone before..."
Nobody thought of correcting that to - "Where no one has
gone before..."//

Ummm... yes they did. They did it for Star Trek: The Next Generation (the best intro sequence of any Star Trek to date) about 30 years ago now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnDtvZXYHgE

So, Individual, teachers have lots of holidays. Don't try that on my daughter-in-law. I asked her what she had planned for the last school holidays. Well, she said, I have 420 projects to mark before we go back to school. Steer well clear of her!