Don't have time

[Jazzy]

What do you not have time for anymore?

 

[Lamb]

Intolerance from the so-called tolerant people. I had a few friends on Facebook who were the super tolerant but would say things like, "Unfriend me if you believe...." So they weren't very tolerant. We aren't friends now because they found out I believed in something they disagreed with. LOL Yeah. Okay. Bye.

 

[Albion]

I totally agree with you there, but when the issue is me "not having time for" certain things that have become common in our society...Number One is the expectation that I am going to speak the fashionable language of Woke instead of English.

With a little practice, jargon like cisgendered, LatinX, and whatever the other guy's "preferred pronouns" happen to be are received in just about the same way that a strong accent or a speech impediment would be. In other words, not as an alternate language but more like a collection of the speaker's peculiar patterns of speech, slang, mispronunciations, and etc.

Be polite when you have this stuff laid on you, but when it comes to your response...be mindful that those people can speak and write whichever way they choose. At the same time, the rest of us are entitled to have and exercise that same right.

 

[Lamb]

I totally agree with you there, but when the issue is me "not having time for" certain things that have become common in our society...Number One is the expectation that I am going to speak the fashionable language of Woke instead of English.

With a little practice, jargon like cisgendered, LatinX, and whatever the other guy's "preferred pronouns" happen to be are received in just about the same way that a strong accent or a speech impediment would be. In other words, not as an alternate language but more like a collection of the speaker's peculiar patterns of speech, slang, mispronunciations, and etc.

Be polite when you have this stuff laid on you, but when it comes to your response...be mindful that those people can speak and write whichever way they choose. At the same time, the rest of us are entitled to have and exercise that same right.

All I did was post a meme and bam, 2 people unfriended me. It's nothing I said to them directly.

 

[Albion]

All I did was post a meme and bam, 2 people unfriended me. It's nothing I said to them directly.

I understand. Even the slightest hint that you, the other party, might not be on board with every last political notion they hold makes you an enemy in their eyes. It's shocking in a way, but also very much indicative of the totalitarian mentality that has become accepted in some circles.

 

[tango]

With a little practice, jargon like cisgendered, LatinX, and whatever the other guy's "preferred pronouns" happen to be are received

It's this kind of patriarchal heteronormative presupposition about gender identity and expression that causes so many problems.....

Oh, wait....