What you say matters.— United Nations (@UN) May 18, 2020
Help create a more equal world by using gender-neutral language if you're unsure about someone's gender or are referring to a group. https://t.co/QQRFPY4VRn #GenerationEquality via@UN_Women pic.twitter.com/koxoAZZuxq
Summit News: United Nations Claims It’s Politically Incorrect to Say “Husband” or “Wife”
Urges people to stop saying “boyfriend” & “girlfriend” in order to “create a more equal world.”
The United Nations has put out a tweet asserting that people shouldn’t use politically incorrect terms like “boyfriend,” “girlfriend,” “husband” and “wife” in order to “help create a more equal world.”
“What you say matters. Help create a more equal world by using gender-neutral language if you’re unsure about someone’s gender or are referring to a group,” states the tweet.
It then lists a number of terms alongside their politically correct alternative.
These include mankind, chairman, congressman, policeman, landlord, boyfriend/girlfriend, manpower, maiden name, fireman and husband/wife.
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WNU Editor: This is creepy.
9 comments:
So, what are those languages like Portuguese and Spanish gonna do? Re-invent their whole language to accommodate these progressive thoughts??
Whenever I see this sort of thing I remember the clip of Trudeau making an audience member look like an ass by correcting their use of "mankind" with: "we prefer to say peoplekind". Just as I'm about to salute this exemplar of ethical perfection I remember him sporting blackface back in college as if he didn't know it was wrong or that we should forgive anything people do when they are adults if they were in college at the time. STFU. What a hyopcrite.
The only laws I recognize for language are the Brevity law and the historical usage.
I may use chair instead of chairman (See Brevity law; yes I am lazy. At times laziness is an adaptive trait to conserve energy.). The word chair (chairman) could be misunderstood except for context. So I might still use chairman. I have some dislike to authority (look at Congress), so I might use a new term instead of an old term.
But no one on the left will tell me where or when. They might think they do. I will shuck & jive and then when the chips are down go after them.
I will always use wife, husband. I will use boyfriend and girlfriend. The only reason not to use girlfriend and boyfriend is the LGBT agenda. LGBT are truthful. They are natural as the day is long. Defects coming off an assembly line are natural too. It is expected. You almost cannot NOT have LGBT, when you have a social hierarchy. How about DEM apples?!?
In Mandarin they do not have the pronouns he or she. So a native mandarin speaker will often use the pronoun for he, when referring to a female. It is also a culture that still has a women more confined to traditional gender roles than the West. Do we really want to copy everything they do?
"So, what are those languages like Portuguese and Spanish gonna do?"
I like the Spanish way of the children having 2 surnames. It honors both sides of the family. It also helps those who are not up to speed in genealogy to avoid pitfalls.
It can be cumbersome, so I would make an adjustment or two.
The Spanish/Portuguese way give a girl instant respect. You do not not have to trace your family line to a king or nobility. A girl's name is often prefixed with the word Doña. And what is the connotation of a lady? Graceful. Witty. Someone to be respected.
I remember back in the late fifties and early sixties, my dad saying that we needed to get the UN out of the US and the US out of the UN. I guess he may have been right, right?
Fire each and everyone of them. Use the money to buy medicine and PPE. Do it now! What a waste of space
This seems designed so we hate and annoy each other. Clearly some mind virus the east has put into the west. The east doesn't give a fck and they are happy while we become more miserable by the day thanks to this nonsense. And it costs us so much money and we spend so much time on this bulls hit!
anon@2:54
Yes, I have been toying with that idea..
Feminists and other malcontents have hated the term woman since the 1980s or before. It probably 1st rose its ugly head in the 60s or 70s.
In the 1980s they spelled it womyn to be avant garde and brave.
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