A satirical vintage-style poster shows an anxious young Asian man balancing on a seesaw labeled “WHO / WHOM,” clutching an “ENGLISH GRAMMAR” book as activists and punctuation marks protest around him. Above him, banners read “PRONOUN POLITICS,” “LANGUAGE POLICY,” “FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION,” and “CULTURAL IDENTITY.” Behind, a “Parliament of Pronouns” debates with speech bubbles shouting “SHE! HIS! THEM! THEY! XE! HIR!” while graffiti on the walls asks “LANGUAGE = IDENTITY?” and “GRAMMAR vs CULTURE!” The scene humorously depicts the political and cultural tension around English pronouns and identity language.

Pronouns are for the Rest of Us

Grammar means a shared system allowing language to be used. An essential part of English grammar are pronouns. Their function is to ease talking about a person or people.

It is not a pronoun‘s purpose to be an extension of an individual’s name. Use pronouns when ignorant or for convivence and better sentence flow.

Ze, Zir, Zirs

Confusion is a path to abuse and control. With “new” pronouns presented as a new social norm it pressures everyone to compile or be excluded.

In spirit of the Covid lockdown with its mandatory masks, vaccinees, and social distancing, “gender” pronoun enforcement has institutional support and lethal consequences for resistors.

Dehumanizing objectors recruits the masses to the pronoun alteration mission. Educators lead this effort. Privileged with goodwill similar to what Catholic priests once had, parents trust their children with them.

Latin should be required for every American student.

English is complicated. Knowing Latin helps make it logical.

Clarity matters more than following the rules. Messing with pronouns breaks grammar and is confusing.

English is already a hard language to learn.

Breaking grammar to play at culture war is exclusionary to the world at English’s mercy.

English is the language of science, technology, entertainment, politics, and business. It is the world’s language.

Requiring speech is different from asking.

This isn’t a dialogue.

Pronouns in the bio is a red flag.

The Woke Mind Virus

Pronouns in an online biography shows political allegiance to the woke. Like BLM posters on small business windows and bumper stickers, it is a bow toward tyranny.

1984 warned people about language policing.

Reject woke newspeak. Allow challenges to thoughts and opinions. Verbal offense is not violence.

Beware attempts to twist the Nineteen Eighty-Four classic into an attack on freedom. The novel shows the dangers around control.

Humans need agency to thrive. Systems that suppress this risk crushing spirits and ending fun and fulfillment.

English thrives with far more words than any other language. This is a feature, not a bug.

Adding more pronouns enhances English on the surface, but it also corrupts and complicates grammar. Worse though is the language and thought policing.

If pronouns need changing, society can make the change organically over time. Otherwise, it is Orwellian.

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