#and like pops says I don't need to know

[noodle-fc]

I honestly believe this is where the language is headed. There is precedent: the 2nd person pronoun "you." In Ye Olden Times, "you" was exclusively plural. "Thou" was the singular 2nd person form of address. So what happened?

Well, referring to "you" became a mark of respect, similar to the royal we. There were people one should address as plural, and others one could call "thou." But it was confusing. It was hard to tell who you could call "thou" and who you should call "you." Sound familiar?

OP's father is right. We don't need to know. "They" works for everyone. "They" is never wrong: even if the anti-wokes will object, "they" has been in singular usage for centuries already. Gendered forms of address will die out, just like the objectively more useful singular "you" did.

My elderly father started talking about how frustrating he finds “the pronouns thing” and I was like. Oh no. He had such a good stand on this, he’s been they/them-ing his cishet siblings for god’s sake! Is he regressing?? And he was talking about how difficult it is to remember, and how onerous it feels to expect strangers to keep track of it, and I’m like oh no oh no.

Then he says, “I mean, the problem isn’t the gender thing. The problem is four words: she, her, he, and him. We got rid of stewardess and turned it into flight attendant. It doesn’t matter if the flight attendant is a man or woman, so we got rid of it. We just need to get rid of those. I don’t need to know.”

“You don’t need to know… people’s gender?”

“No. I don’t care, I don’t need to know, and I don’t want to remember it.”

So we can relax. It’s just a continuation of his crusade to they/them the world. He doesn’t want to remember anyone’s gender. He’s abolishing the genders.

[nouverx]

I feel the room swayin'

While the band's playin'

One of our old favourite songs from way back when 🎵

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

I am exhausted, good heavens.

[mumblesplash]

someone tagged the hope poem post 'the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls' excuse me while i cry in a corner forever

[dragon-cookies]

Slightly related to my last point but not related enough to tack onto the same post

Why have we seen everything between aggressive "flirting" and on-screen sex between male characters yet Charlie and Vaggie haven't even kissed

[nexus-nebulae]

me as a kid: i have all these problems

every adult around me: you're not old enough to know what's wrong with you, you're fine

me as an adult: i still have all these problems

my doctors after i finally got the opportunity to choose them myself: oh my fucking god why have you never gotten help for all these problems. you should have seen me 10 years ago

[maddy-ferguson]

this might just be the worst tweet of all time

[stillresolved]

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[msmargaretmurry]

this poll has me thinking so much about what kinds of hockey players i tend to love the most because like, there are so many genres and subgenres of hockey player and a lot of the time the genres overlap and i would never expect someone to be able to fit all of that into one poll but it is INTERESTING the roles guys get assigned. i voted face of the franchise bc in the moment i was like, yeah i love the narrative richness of the intersection of public image and pressure/responsibility and unknowable internality. but i don't think that's WHY i like players bc there are so many faces of franchises that i so deeply don't care about 😂

like. i feel like people On Here would classify me as a matthew gal or a dylan gal which is definitely not incorrect, but also only a fraction of my hockey feelings even make it onto tumblr at all so i ALSO consider myself an ebs gal and a nicke gal and a leon gal and a mike green gal and a dsp gal and a matt hendricks gal and a braden holtby gal and a joel ward gal ... i don't really really consider myself a quinn or brady or brock or petey gal even tho they are all extremely special guys to me because the vibe is different in the way i love them. they are still my guys but i am not a them-gal. you know? thatcher and william and andre and sasha barkov and casey fitz and charlie mac and matty gryz are guys i keep in my pocket. i have a whole lineup of guys i loved in juniors/college who played 0–5 nhl games and are now career ahlers or overseas somewhere. like i am also in my heart a john h.ayden gal and a riley b.arber gal. y'all cannot fathom what i was going thru when brien d.iffley and pat h.arper and josh n.icholls won an EIHL thing together this spring 😭 how does one even begin to categorize these players into a genre. my affections are based so much on a player with the right vibes catching me at the exact right moment for me to latch on like a cat chomping down on one of those fishing line toys with a fake mouse on the end.

[buttercup-art]

hey

[radio-4-is-static]

RED OUT | Kenshi Yonezu

鮮血煌めいて跳ねるスタインウェイ & サンズ 頭の中鳴り止まない砕けたバックビート 零コンマーで褪せてしまう情景 どうした地獄じゃあるまいに そんな目で見んな

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Blood glistens, and the Steinway & Sons bounces A frenzied backbeat hammers in my head A sight that blackens in 0.1 seconds What’s with you? It’s not like this is hell Don’t give me that look

[pocketramblr]

fae court but it's a legal court, changelings are fae they leave in place of human jurors during the trial because it's the best way to prevent the trial from just becoming a bunch of fairies trying to one up the best bargain for their vote with the accused

[mila-carat]

I was watching this Chinese variety show just to see Ricky and Zhang Hao but then I saw one of the hosts was Zhang Zhenyuan and now I want to cry… 😭💔

[whatisthisnonsense]

"mutants are poc analogy" "mutants are queer analogy" Listen, X-Men and as such mutants as a whole should really be disability representation, and I mean representation and not analougous to it they just occassionally also get to blast ice while having furniture not built for them, struggles with keeping their mind in the present, and constantly having people casually discuss sterilizing or euthanizing them and being considered either dangerous or simply incapable of understanding when they get mad about this. But nobody is ready for this conversation.

[chaosandbeyond]

goodbye watcher i guess

[thedreadvampy]

guess who's in 🎶troooouble🎶

New Boss does not appreciate my Vile Insubordination (giving an informed opinion in an email chain where she said some factually incorrect things and got called out on it - I said hey yep you're right that what she said isn't true but here's why it's still important to listen to our team)

and now we have to have a Quick Chattette about my Behaviour and Unsatisfactory Response (didn't apologise for being correct)