there is fail inside the fail IT'S A TESSERACT OF FAIL

[prof_pangaea]

hey everyone, i'm sure there's lots of fun to be had with the most recent wank about victoria bitter/thanfiction/etc, but if anyone tries to justify using pronouns like "she", "he/she", "it", etc when talking about him, then i'm sure you wouldn't mind if i took you off of my friends-list.

of course, and i actually say this quite confidently, i have a great friends-list, so i would never expect that anyway. ilu guys.

Comments

[feanorian.livejournal.com]

Wow. Blast from the past time, i haven't heard of VB since that epic LotR scam he pulled!
Pronoun fail, however, is epically fail-y, and i *really* wish English had a non-offensive gender-neutral pronoun.


Also - Prof, i haven't talked to you in about a zillion years. How are ya these days?

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

i'd never heard of him before yesterday and i was like, O____O!!!! reading up on the past exploits. meanwhile, english does have non-offensive gender-neutral pronouns, people just insist that they are unable to use them because they are "fake" or "made-up" words, because they have no idea how language works. then they go onto say things like "lol" and "wait a sec, i have to tweet this."

edit: i am doing pretty well! i'm in milwaukee, got a new boyfriend, two cool roommates, two awesome kitties. er, back to looking for a job again, but that's probably the case for about half the people i know, so. how about you?

[zougla.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, introducing new pronouns into a language is not the same as introducing new nouns and verbs. It's not impossible either.

But, uh, a slashed up "shit" sure isn't the answer.... wow.

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

not the same thing, obviously, but also not impossible, and also doesn't make the words fake, which is what i always hear as an excuse against gender-neutral pronouns.

and... yeah. what the actual fuck, on that one.