[ExI] weird tangent: RE: URLs (was: Re: statins bad? again? sorry - I did not know where to cut it off. bill w)

Henry Rivera hrivera at alumni.virginia.edu
Wed Aug 12 19:15:03 UTC 2020


Personally, I’m a fan of Tim Leary’s solution to this gender specific pronoun issue. He proposed the gender unifying sHe or s/he, hir, hirs, and hirself which obviously never caught on. I submit that people resist change even if the current state is flawed. 
-Henry

>> On Aug 12, 2020, at 2:38 PM, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> > On Behalf Of Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat
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> Subject: Re: [ExI] weird tangent: RE: URLs (was: Re: statins bad? again? sorry - I did not know where to cut it off. bill w)
> >>>…To each their own…
>  >>…I am considering seeking profession help to get over this. 
> >…Sorry, I'll put a trigger warning on it next time….
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> {8^D  Hey, it isn’t easy.  I am in constant fear from the popular clamor to defund the grammar police, oy vey.
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> >…Also, for the record, I was not using it to be inclusive of the entire alphabet of genders, I just wanted to use the plural…
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> To save the useful meme, I modify it a second time and say “To all, their own.”
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> I get a lot of strange looks.  But I am used to that.  If not for strange looks, I would get no looks at all.
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