Originally Posted by
Drewbacca
This isn't actually the case though. It's not male, female and other. It's male, female and 30+ others. To misgender someone (up in Canada anyway) there's a possibility that a Human Rights violation could be filed including fines, community service and all sorts of weird things. Lukcily the US has way more lax speech laws. It's much better, despite being an obvious feather in the cap of racists. The pro-pronoun team says... none of these are jail-able offences so no big deal. But what if you don't pay the fine? Uh oh. Sneaky. There's no reason why the law or any enforcement would be necessary since that's not how language works. Language evolves. We can say... don't use the term "tranny" or write in exceptions. But it's insane to have the state dictate or enforce language outside of its natural social progression. It's the difference between saying DON'T LITTER versus PICK UP ALL THE TRASH ON THE STREET YOU SEE. Compelled action is totalitarian at its roots.
The reason these pronouns aren't being adopted is because they have a user experience and heuristics problem. There's too many, and they go so far as to mix plural with singular (they). They're just poorly conceived and executed ideas and generally where the virtue of inclusion starts corrupting in to a sin.
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