{"id":8096,"date":"2022-10-25T20:46:18","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T20:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordmagicglobal.com\/?p=8096"},"modified":"2022-10-25T21:17:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T21:17:52","slug":"non-binary-and-its-pc-vocabulary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordmagicglobal.com\/non-binary-and-its-pc-vocabulary\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-Binary and Its PC Vocabulary:"},"content":{"rendered":"

Non-Binary and Its PC Vocabulary: <\/strong><\/h1>\n

Proposing a Simple Fix to an Unnecessary Controversy
\nThat May Actually Mask a Much Larger Agenda<\/h2>\n

 <\/p>\n

Recently, a quick video clip suddenly appeared on my phone. It featured a bearded man speaking with a bearded lady who sported long hair and lashes, lipstick, plus a mustache to compliment the beard. The \u2018manly man\u2019 said that his adjectives for himself were, \u2018handsome and brilliant\u2019 \u2013\u2013 but that this did not oblige anyone else to participate in his delusion by referring to him in these terms. And similarly, he did not feel obliged to participate in a non-binary individual\u2019s chosen nouns and pronouns. The clip abruptly ended and my phone instantly reverted to its \u2018desk top\u2019 mode before I could watch it again.<\/p>\n

A wondering came over me about how suddenly a whole movement had arisen globally involving crossing the boundary between male and female by combining these polarities in any of a number of ways along a wide spectrum \u2013\u2013\u00a0while expecting others to respect them by using the already problematic, uncreative, inexact singular-and-plural \u2018third person\u2019 designation \u2013\u2013 \u2018them\/their\u2019 \u2013\u2013\u00a0to describe a singular, mixed-gender individual.<\/p>\n

In some countries, laws that had formerly discriminated against such people are now vehemently supporting them by enforcing the use of these nondescript pronouns. It was his very public refusal to be told which words he must now use in relationship to some people \u2013\u2013 so as not to offend their tender feelings in our \u2018ultra-polite\u2019 society (in which virtually anything goes) \u2013\u2013\u00a0that propelled Canadian clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson to international renown.<\/p>\n

In the U.S. and perhaps elsewhere, it is no longer even \u2018PC\u2019 to refer to \u2018women\u2019 when discussing menstruation and pregnancy \u2013\u2013\u00a0but rather to the nonspecific \u2018people\u2019 (who just happen to have the biological equipment required to create and nurture human life). And when it comes to giving birth, well this is no longer accomplished by a \u2018woman\u2019 or \u2018mother\u2019 but by the non-gendered \u2018birthing parent\u2019 \u2013\u2013 even though the only males on Earth that have ever given birth are Sea Horses and their close relatives.<\/p>\n

So much for Freud\u2019s theory of a woman\u2019s \u2018penis envy.\u2019 Now we see where the real reproductive jealousy resides.<\/p>\n

Political commentator Bill Maher summed-up our contemporary linguistic controversy succinctly in a \u2018New Rules\u2019 segment entitled, \u2018Words Matter,\u2019 on his Politically Incorrect<\/em> HBO program:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the essence of why \u2018word inflation\u2019 is a problem: You can try to change reality by changing the words. But you can\u2019t. It just stops you from dealing with it. One of the bad guys in Orwell\u2019s 1984<\/em> says, \u2018The whole aim of NewSpeak is to narrow the range of thought.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is a simple and obvious solution to the entire logomachy<\/em>, which is a word that was coined in the mid-1500\u2019s to denote \u201can argument or debate marked by the reckless or incorrect use of words; a meaningless battle of words.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

First of all, a quick online search reveals this statistic: \u201cAccording to experts \u2013\u2013 only 1.7% of the population is born with intersex traits, comparable to the number of people born with red hair.\u201d<\/p>\n

Given this fact, does it make any sense at all for a miniscule minority to self-righteously expect the entire English-speaking population to suddenly agree to change the long-established meanings of two small and ancient words used to designate the distinct genders required to make a baby? The answer is, \u2018Of course not.\u2019 And especially not in an era when people\u2019s levels of tolerance are at an all-time low.<\/p>\n

There’s even a bit of perennial philosophy, espoused by many sages throughout the ages, that addresses the futility surrounding this issue of attempting to impose a PC vocabulary on a resistant population. It can be distilled down to a simple, memorable adage:<\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s unwise to expect the world to change
\nto help protect you from your pain.\u2019<\/p>\n

Fortunately, it isn\u2019t even necessary to do this. With just a little bit of creativity, nonbinary people can invent their own hybrid vocabulary to communicate, for instance, that someone born with female reproductive organs \u2013\u2013 who now chooses to identify as male \u2013\u2013 may still retain the capacity to give birth and nurture life. In this case, such a person can be simply described as a womb+man<\/em><\/strong>. Problem solved! Simple as that. Argument avoided.<\/p>\n

All of us are unique beings and none of us fit neatly into a single category or its total opposite. And personally, I support everyone\u2019s right to express themselves creatively, authentically and harmlessly. I also firmly believe that all of us deserve each other\u2019s loving kindness and respect, regardless of how different we appear from the so-called \u2018norm.\u2019<\/p>\n

Right now, however,\u00a0in this super-stressed society, it\u2019s a lot to expect. For people don\u2019t change as quickly and easily as ideas and technology. And many have very little mental, emotional, social or political capacity to tolerate differences in this time of unprecedented, accelerated change. Where possible, it makes sense to avoid unnecessary arguments that undermine our common ground.<\/p>\n

Given the intensity surrounding the transgender rights movement \u2013\u2013 and the sudden legal and financial muscle behind it \u2013\u2013 I can\u2019t help but wonder what\u2019s really going on here. For whenever something is loudly and rapidly railroaded through the public domain, you can trust there\u2019s a loco-motive pulling it along.<\/p>\n

What might that motive be? To begin with \u2013\u2013 and speaking of miniscule minorities \u2013\u2013 if the global elite are seeking to keep significant numbers of people from effectively uniting against their authority, wouldn\u2019t they put their support behind any and all such divisive controversies?<\/p>\n

Secondly, and even more ominously, I wonder whether the drift toward androgyny \u2013\u2013 and\u00a0the blurring of the line and the language related to gender identity \u2013\u2013 may be part of a much larger agenda. Perhaps transhumanism riding atop transgenderism is what\u2019s coming around the bend as the formerly unthinkable becomes totally normalized, our positions polarized, and our identities increasingly homogenized. Mean+wile \u2013\u2013<\/p>\n

It is a herd mentality that grants to the small number of billionaire
\noverseers an irrevocable immunity from all responsibility
\nand vulnerability to the billions of unseen, unheard
\nmembers of the flock whom they are endeavoring
\nto herd into one identity-crushing, liberty-
\nbusting unity, so they may more
\neasily control and prey upon
\nus parasitically.<\/p>\n

How appropriate, then, that the word-of-the-day today \u2013\u2013 10.25.22 \u2013\u2013\u00a0on Dictionary.com is cantrip, <\/em>pronounced \u2018con-trip,\u2019 which means a magic spell; trick by sorcery<\/em>. This word of uncertain origin dates back to the early 1700s, when it was first recorded in English, the language that cantripped <\/em>the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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